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She was difficult, she knew. She did not make friends. She was brisk and demanding, unsparing and indulgent.
Totally incompetent blowhard, an idiot and a fool.
Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.
SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
Aware of her beauty and ignorant of her love. Coquettish
I'm crepuscular.
outwardly nice but inwardly horrid.
inspirational,motivational
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.
CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.
Phoebe was thinking, Insubordinate. What a lovely word. And when was the last time she'd heard a nice-looking young man use it? Why-never, that's when. What a treat. And to have a ruler who could say conscientious and citizenry in the same sentence. Lovely.
Nonrefundable. It was a good, solid word, one you couldn't chew, one that only dissolved after sucking slowly.
prestidigitator,
He was obstinate in the way that only truly miserable people can be obstinate.
Cynical, self-deprecating, affected, indiscriminate, patronizing, immature, as sloppy intellectually as he was with his desk, fickle, vain, virile, brooding, pedantic, philandering...in short, Byronic, Byronic, Byronic, almost to the point of parody.
misbegotten cockwaffle.
Fault, impeccably mannered, and had no real
Con" is short for "confidence game" or "confidence trick." The term comes from the idea that you gain someone's confidence in order to take advantage of them.
Groaning, he gripped his fists in the wild stuff. "Contessa.God, Contessa."
She straightened, changing the angle, changing the pleasure. She shook her hair back and undulated. She was a contessa.A princess.No,a queen.
You're the least power-hungry person I've ever met. You're also the most stubborn person I've ever met. Disrespectful. Mouthy." "You mean independent and proactive in taking initiative." "That,
anti-intellectual
Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.
Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.
I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.
He's paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?
Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.
Cynicism is carnality that thinks its smart.
Conceited is just another word for self-confident. And sometimes, the only confidence one can depend on is his own.
Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you ...
a fully flowered narcissist.
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
Obstinate, headstrong girl!
contemporaneously
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse
Cynical is a fool's word for realist.
Just another four-letter word.
I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.
She might be a natural-born cynic, but she knew the right word when she heard it.
Vain until the bitter end.
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.
Stoical' is the best word to describe her reaction to these compliments, Emma putting up with them as of they were one of my unfortunate foibles.
abysmally beshitted.
Oh, this beast? It's ... perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'."
"Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled.
"And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.
You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.
He is an honorable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.
Passive...Aggressive...Pussy.
punctiliousness - in
The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.
Side note: invalid. Whoever invented that word, and made it the same word as not-valid? That person sucked.
When you catch an adjective, kill it.
Frumious. Anything that inspires its own adjective is a force to be feared.
Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth.
He's insufferable. Excruciatingly unbearable. Plain obnoxious
I prefer the term 'resourceful twit.' - Kara
Unremarkable, but with a brainy arrogance wafting from them.
Egotistical. Worst of all, he is a tyrant. But look! she said, looking at him. Look
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
Is the most pitiful word in history, and it's a lame excuse,
Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.
Bawdy in thoughts, precise in words,
Ill-natured though a whore,
Her belly is a bag of turds,
And her cunt a common shore.
Impertinent is a word which actually means not suitable to the circumstances, but most people use it to mean I am using a complicated word in hopes that it will make you stop talking ...
Dignified, like a guest.
I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'
nihilistic - but
I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.
A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.
ADVENTITIOUS (ADVENTI'TIOUS) adj.[adventitius, Lat.]That which advenes; accidental; supervenient; extrinsically added, not essentially inherent.
Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive
If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.
Just thoroughgoingly nasty and sick.
Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word.
Conceive you - that ass!
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
Arduous, adj.
Sometimes during sex, I wish there was a button on the small of your back that I could press and cause you to be done with it already.
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
this word needs to be reworded ==========
To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word.
I'm a provocateur.
Let's see," mused the dragon, "that doesn't tell us much, does it? What sort of a word is this? Is it an epithet, do you think?"
Gawaine could do no more than nod.
"Why, of course," exclaimed the dragon, "reactionary Republican.
You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing it.
There were the years - years of childhood and innocence - when I had believed that carminative meant - well, carminative. And now, before me lies the rest of my life - a day, perhaps, ten years, half a century, when I shall know that carminative means windtreibend.
Half-Christian, half-Jewish, a 'cathjew nut',
[A]n unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy without end.
There's always an adjective before my name, and it's never a nice one.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
When there's a negative word or expression-immaculate, for example-but the positive is almost never used, and you choose to use it, you become rather amusing. Or pretentious. Or pretentiously amusing, which can sometimes be good. In any case, you are uncovering a buried word.
CHERFUL IN ALL WEATHERS, NEVER SHERKED A TASK, SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR.
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
The word should be thinkering.
Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.
A bad word that I can't say that starts with f.