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imprecation |
a spoken curse |
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disdainfully |
full of or showing disdain; scornful |
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presentiment |
an intuitive feeling about the future, especially one of foreboding |
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melancholy |
a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause |
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vicariously |
experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person |
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consternation |
feelings of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected |
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plaintively |
someone or something with a pleading, sorrowful, desperate tone |
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unscrupulous |
having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair |
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superciliously |
behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others |
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allude |
suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at |
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felicitous |
well chosen or suited to the circumstances |
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condescend |
show feelings of superiority; be patronizing |