facetious adj DISAPPROVING
not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be amusing or to appear clever:
facetious remarks
He's just being facetious.
facetiously adv DISAPPROVING
facetiousness n [U] DISAPPROVING
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facetious adj DISAPPROVING
not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be amusing or to appear clever:
facetious remarks
He's just being facetious.
facetiously adv DISAPPROVING
facetiousness n [U] DISAPPROVING
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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graveyard shift
period of work after midnight: a shift of work running through the early hours of the morning, especially one running from midnight till eight o'clock the following morning, or the workers on such a shift
I have a plan: attack!
clever Dick/clogs (UK informal disapproving)
somebody too sure of own cleverness: somebody regarded as arrogant or ostentatiously clever
clever Dick/clogs (UK informal disapproving)
someone who shows that they are clever, in a way which annoys other people:
If you're such a clever dick, you finish the crossword puzzle.
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speakeasy n. pl. speak·eas·ies
A place for the illegal sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks, as during Prohibition in the United States.
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Brillig Four o'clock in the afternoon: the time when you begin broiling things for dinner. (According to Mischmasch, it is derived from the verb to bryl or broil.)
We know that it probably doesn't count, but it is a very nice word, isn't it?
If you believe even a half of this post, you are severely mistaken.
sententious adj FORMAL DISAPPROVING
trying to appear wise, clever and important:
The document was sententious and pompous.
"I see how you are. Getting all euphuistic and sententious on me. Meanie."
sententiously adv
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denizen noun [C] LITERARY
an animal, plant or person that lives in or is often in a particular place:
Deer, foxes and squirrels are among the denizens of the forest.
from The Great Gatsby“He becomes very sentimental sometimes,” explained Gatsby. “This is one of his sentimental days. He’s quite a character around New York—a denizen of Broadway.”
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shamus (noun): a detective
what the...? who stole my bike--again? that's it, i'm hiring a shamus now.
histrionic adj DISAPPROVING
very emotional and energetic, but lacking sincerity or real meaning:
a histrionic outburst
She put on a histrionic display of grief at her ex-husband's funeral.
histrionically adv DISAPPROVING
histrionics plural N DISAPPROVING
very emotional and energetic behaviour that lacks sincerity and real meaning:
I'd had enough of Lydia's histrionics.
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un·gu·late adj.
1. Having hooves.
2. Resembling hooves; hooflike.
3. Of or belonging to the former order Ungulata, now divided into the orders Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla and composed of the hoofed mammals such as horses, cattle, deer, swine, and elephants.
n.
An ungulate mammal.
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ah, its a very nice thread, helps in vocabulary.
crestfallen - adjective
1: dispirited
2: dejected
3: disappointed
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I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
prolific: adj
1. highly productive: producing ideas or works frequently and in large quantities
2. fruitful: producing a lot of fruit or many offspring
3. abundant or abounding: present in large numbers, or containing large numbers of quantities of something, especially animal life
so in other words... babbly
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gadfly n.
1. A persistent irritating critic; a nuisance.
2. One that acts as a provocative stimulus; a goad.
3. Any of various flies, especially of the family Tabanidae, that bite or annoy livestock and other animals.
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from the Hours by Michael Cunningham...Clarissa wishes, suddlenly and with surprising urgency, that Richard were here beside her, right now - not Richard as he's become but the Richard of ten years ago; Richard the fearless, ceaseless talker; Richard the gadfly.
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Where Would I Find The Word Sesquipadalian?
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Sesquipedalian
1. (n.) a long word
2. (adj.) given to the use of long words
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