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«PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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beneficial, conspicuously, providential
«Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.»
«CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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announced, appeased, appeases, appeasing, appointing, cabbage, cabbages, conspicuously, council, council of, Empire State, gravely, His Majesty, kitchen garden, majesty, miscarry, murmuring, predecessor, The Empire State, vegetable, vegetable garden
«FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable.Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to be famous aspired. Content? Well, his grill has a plating of gold, And his twistings are greatly admired. --Hassan Brubuddy»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adj, admired, aspired, conspicuously, gold plate, grill, grilled, plating
«DANCE, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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characteristics, conspicuously, dances, daughter, in common, leap, participation, preferably, requiring, sexes, The Sound, tittering, vicious, warmly
«One of the most interesting complexes is the redeemer complex. It characterizes people who conspicuously but unknowingly take the attitude that they must save or redeem someone.»
«Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Money
| Keywords:
conspicuously, disgrace, meanness, represents, ugliness
«The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
conspicuously, privation, privations, turn up, urging, wealthy
«My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.»
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