Skulduggery: n. devious, dishonest, or unscrupulous behavior or activity.
John Lynn and CES/STFI offer spiritual skulduggery to their followers. Example, instead of calling their brand of prophecy a spiritual evil, they chose to say it was ill conceived.
Since we didn't get one yesterday, I'll offer three today: mercurial, jovial, and saturnine
mercurial: adj. liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
jovial: adj. gay; merry; joyous; jolly; mirth-inspiring; hilarious; characterized by mirth or jollity.
saturnine: adj. heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; a morose and unsociable manner.
Martindale's behavior was mercurial: he could be grandly jovial one minute and profoundly saturnine the next.
Sticking with the planetary theme suggested by GSG:
Plutocratic (Adj.) from Plutocracy = rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth. In a plutocracy, the degree of economic inequality is high while the level of social mobility is low. The word plutocracy is derived from the ancient Greek root ploutos, meaning wealth and kratos, meaning to rule or to govern
Earthy (adj)
1. Of, consisting of, or resembling earth: an earthy smell.
2. Of or characteristic of this world; worldly.
3. Crude or off-color; indecent: an earthy joke.
4. Hearty or uninhibited; natural: an earthy enjoyment of life.
5. Unadorned and simple in style: an earthy homemade stew
Martindale’s plutocratic reign gave opportunity to his earthy behavior.
(Your ABS at work again!)
(For those interested in planets, that leaves Uranus and Neptune...and Uranus in context of earthy behavior...wasn't a good look, LOL)
Weasel words is an informal term for words and phrases that, whilst communicating a vague or ambiguous claim, create an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said. Weasel words manage to vaguely imply meaning far beyond the claim actually made.
Here's a word I haven't seen in about four decades, but it showed up recently in an article about the "scientists" promoting the "global warming crisis":
Mountebank n. (from the Italian montimbanco, one who climbs upon a bench or platform)
1 : a person who sells quack medicines from a platform
2 : a boastful unscrupulous pretender : charlatan
The mountebank VPW made all sorts of exaggerated claims about himself and PFAL.
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And a tad sophomoric.
Is this an "anyone can post anytime" thread, or are you going to give us a daily treat?
George
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Would it be too pedestrian, or perhaps pedantic, for the word of the day to be "you're"?
"you're" - a contraction of "you" and "are" - as in, "If you don't know the difference between 'your' and 'you're', you're a douchebag."
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Skulduggery: n. devious, dishonest, or unscrupulous behavior or activity.
John Lynn and CES/STFI offer spiritual skulduggery to their followers. Example, instead of calling their brand of prophecy a spiritual evil, they chose to say it was ill conceived.
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Since we didn't get one yesterday, I'll offer three today: mercurial, jovial, and saturnine
mercurial: adj. liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
jovial: adj. gay; merry; joyous; jolly; mirth-inspiring; hilarious; characterized by mirth or jollity.
saturnine: adj. heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; a morose and unsociable manner.
Martindale's behavior was mercurial: he could be grandly jovial one minute and profoundly saturnine the next.
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I knew I forgot to do something yesterday.
carapace: n. a shell; a protective covering.
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Sticking with the planetary theme suggested by GSG:
Plutocratic (Adj.) from Plutocracy = rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth. In a plutocracy, the degree of economic inequality is high while the level of social mobility is low. The word plutocracy is derived from the ancient Greek root ploutos, meaning wealth and kratos, meaning to rule or to govern
Earthy (adj)
1. Of, consisting of, or resembling earth: an earthy smell.
2. Of or characteristic of this world; worldly.
3. Crude or off-color; indecent: an earthy joke.
4. Hearty or uninhibited; natural: an earthy enjoyment of life.
5. Unadorned and simple in style: an earthy homemade stew
Martindale’s plutocratic reign gave opportunity to his earthy behavior.
(Your ABS at work again!)
(For those interested in planets, that leaves Uranus and Neptune...and Uranus in context of earthy behavior...wasn't a good look, LOL)
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Brobdingnagian adj, Gigantic, enormous.
John Lynn's ego is brobdingnagian.
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But his merits are lilliputian.
(Lilliputian and brobdingnagian are derived from the tiny and giant peoples, respectively, in Gulliver's Travels.)
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Have
As in "could HAVE", "would HAVE", "should HAVE", NOT "could OF", "would OF", "should OF".
Just doing my part to help posters learn English.
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Weasel.
As in "weasel words".
Weasel words is an informal term for words and phrases that, whilst communicating a vague or ambiguous claim, create an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said. Weasel words manage to vaguely imply meaning far beyond the claim actually made.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_words
You know. Like on the Green card.
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Here's a word I haven't seen in about four decades, but it showed up recently in an article about the "scientists" promoting the "global warming crisis":
Mountebank n. (from the Italian montimbanco, one who climbs upon a bench or platform)
1 : a person who sells quack medicines from a platform
2 : a boastful unscrupulous pretender : charlatan
The mountebank VPW made all sorts of exaggerated claims about himself and PFAL.
George
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Sesquipedalian, adj. given to using long words, especially when short ones will do. (From sesqui: one-and-a-half and pedis: foot)
Martindale's sesquipedalian antics did not disguise his lack of scholarship.
George
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