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adjective
1. Exhibiting or feeling great or offensive satisfaction with oneself or with one's situation; self-righteously complacent.
"a smug look; a smug critic."
2. Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
3. Similar: spruce Irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.
rueful
adjective
1: exciting pity or sympathy : pitiable
rueful squalid poverty … by every wayside—John Morley
2: mournful, regretful
troubled her with a rueful disquiet —W. M. Thackeray
balderdash
noun
1. Nonsense.
2. A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
3. Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.
brawny
adjective
brawnier; brawniest
1: muscular
also: strong, powerful
2: being swollen and hard
a brawny infected foot
pansy
noun
plural pansies
1: a garden plant (Viola wittrockiana) derived chiefly from the hybridization of the European Johnny-jump-up (Viola tricolor) with other wild violets
also : its flower
2 a offensive: a weak or effeminate man or boy
—used as a term of abuse and disparagement
b offensive: a gay man
—used as a term of abuse and disparagement
pansy
adjective
offensive: effeminate sense 1
also: gay
—used as a term of abuse and disparagement
mosey
verb
moseyed; moseying
intransitive verb
1: to hurry away
2: to move in a leisurely or aimless manner : saunter
'moseyed around the general store' — Eric Sevareid
romp
noun
1: one that romps
especially : a romping girl or woman
2 a: high-spirited, carefree, and boisterous play
b: something suggestive of such play: such as
(1): a light fast-paced narrative, dramatic, or musical work usually in a comic mood
(2): an episode of lovemaking
3: an easy winning pace
verb
romped; romping; romps
intransitive verb
1: to run or play in a lively, carefree, or boisterous manner
2: to move or proceed in a brisk, easy, or playful manner
3: to win a contest easily
WIST QuotationsAs I have always been convinced that abuse of Words, has been the great instrument of Sophistry and Chicanery — of party, faction and Division in Society.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1819-03-31) to J. H. Tiffany
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