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Spurious |
1. not genuine, sincere, or authentic spurious [=fake] gems spurious [=insincere] kindness
2. based on false ideas or bad reasoning spurious claims/justifications |
Synonyms bogus, fake, false, forged, inauthentic, phony (also phoney), queer, sham, snide, counterfeit, unauthentic |
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Puissant <one of the nation's most respected and puissant advocates for the rights of minorities> |
Powerful |
Synonyms heavy, heavy-duty, influential, mighty, potent, powerful, important, significant, strong |
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Mellifluous <a rich, mellifluous voice that gets her a lot of work in radio and TV commercials> |
having a smooth rich flow |
Synonymseuphonious, lyrical, mellifluent, lyric, mellow, melodic, melodious, musical |
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Lachrymose <a drama with a lachrymose hero> <the more lachrymose mourners at the funeral required a steady supply of tissues> |
1. tending to cause tears : mournful a lachrymose drama 2. tending to cry often : tearful a drama with a lachrymose hero |
Tearful, mournful, teary, weepy |
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Mollify
He tried to mollify his critics with an apology. All attempts to mollify the extremists have failed. The landlord fixed the heat, but the tenants still were not mollified. |
to make (someone) less angry : to calm (someone) down |
Synonym Discussion of mollifypacify, appease, placate, mollify, propitiate, conciliate mean to ease the anger or disturbance of. pacify suggests a soothing or calming <pacified by a sincere apology>. appease implies quieting insistent demands by making concessions <appease their territorial ambitions>. placate suggests changing resentment or bitterness to goodwill <a move to placate local opposition>. mollify implies soothing hurt feelings or rising anger <a speech that mollified the demonstrators>. propitiate implies averting anger or malevolence especially of a superior being <propitiated his parents by dressing up>. conciliate suggests ending an estrangement by persuasion, concession, or settling of differences <conciliating the belligerent nations>. (Merriam-webster) |
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Expurgate |
to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous; especially : to expunge objectionable parts from before publication or presentation <an expurgated edition of the letters> |
Synonyms: bowdlerize, clean (up), censor, launder, red-pencil |
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Celerity |
a journalist who writes his well-crafted stories with remarkable celerity |
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Turpitude moral turpitude |
a very evil quality or way of behaving |
Synonyms: abjection, corruptness, debasement, debauchery, decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, depravity, dissipatedness, dissipation, dissoluteness, libertinage, libertinism, perversion, pervertedness, rakishness, corruption |
