noun
- insolent or impertinent behavior.
“One student had the moronic effrontery to challenge the master’s statement. That student’s academic career as well as his ability to sit down without wincing in pain ended the following day.”
Word of the Day: roister
verb
- enjoy oneself or celebrate in a noisy or boisterous way.
“Having destroyed the the last of his enemies in the village, he and his men roistered in the town church though the night before burning it down at dawn.”
Word of the Day: desultory
adjective
- lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm.
“The ecstasy had worn off of most revelers by the time the sun rose over the desert; however, a few people hadn’t gotten the memo, and continued dancing in a rather desultory fashion.” - (of conversation or speech) going constantly from one subject to another in a halfhearted way; unfocused.
“Of all my patients, the schizophrenics are the most annoying: their attempts at conversation are desultory on the best of days, and their therapy goes nowhere.” - occurring randomly or occasionally.
“Desultory ne’er-do-wells began appearing claiming to be heirs to his artistic fortune.”
bawd
noun
archaic
- a woman in charge of a brothel.
“Having been grotesquely trounced in her bid for President, she returned home to resume her role of Bawd in Chief back home with her syphilitic husband and his myriad hoes and political hangers-on.”
Regret is an attempt to avoid what has already happened.
penury
noun
- extreme poverty; destitution.
“He had hoped that the judge or other litigants would have, if not compassion for his condition, at least an acknowledgment of the reality of his abject penury. Alas, his hopes went unrealized. ‘Fascists,’ he thought dismissively, but spent the rest of the afternoon imagining what all their heads would look like on sticks.”
“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.” ~ Frida Kahlo
adjure
verb
formal
- urge or request (someone) solemnly or earnestly to do something.
“It is with nothing but love and respect that I adjure you to please, for the love of God, shut your word hole for just 5 minutes so that I can listen to the rest of this sonata in peace.”
