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Epithet

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Phrase expressing characteristic of person

Nickname

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Censure

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extreme disapproval of

Criticize

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Insipid

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Lacking flavor/interest

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Patronized

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Treated in a condescending way

Doing business with/be given something

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Threadbare

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(Clothes/argument) worn out

(People/place) shabby/poorly dressed

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Decried

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Publicly denounced

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Eulogized

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Praised highly in speech or writing

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Effusions

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Outpourings of something

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Digression (LOL “I digress”)

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Stray from main subject

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Aesthetic

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Concerning beauty

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Conciliatory

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Intended to placate

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Dispassionate

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Impartial/rational/unaffected

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Abridgment

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Shortened version

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Malign

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Malevolent

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Ousted

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Drive out

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Hilarity

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Amusement

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Ominous

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Threatening

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Subversive

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Disruptive/troublemaking

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Affected

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  1. Influenced

2. Pretentious/artificial

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Condescending

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Patronizing

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Loomed

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  1. Appear as a shadowing form/materialize

2. An event seems about to happen (ominous)

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Complicity

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Involved with others in illegal activity

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Gaffe

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Unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator

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Affluent

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Wealthy

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Ostentation

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Pretentious and vulgar display (esp wealth and luxury) to impress people

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Wry

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Dry humor/mocking

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Resignation

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Leaving/give up/retiring

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Apportion

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  1. Divide and allocate/share

2. Assign

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Respite

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  1. Short break from something difficult

2. To postpone

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Prosaic

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Lacking poetic beauty/ unromantic/ordinary

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Voluptuously

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Pleased/delighted/gratification from senses/ sensual pleasure

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Pestilence

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Fatal epidemic disease

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Maxim

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Short statement expressing general truth or rule of conduct

Saying/proverb

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Didactic

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Intended to teach (esp morally)

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Imminent

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About to happen

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Obliquely

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Indirectly

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