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Catholic
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Broad-minded in views
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Chauvinist
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An exaggerated patriot
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Defeatist
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Follows the policy or practice od admitting defeat too quickly
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Dillettante
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One who dabbles in art and leters
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Epicurean
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One who makes a profession of pleasure. A connoisseur of food and wine
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Parsimonious
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Unnecessarily frugal
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Philistine
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A person with a plebeian type of mind. An individual of materialistic tastes who is interested in neither in art nor letters
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Profligate
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Completely given up to dissipation; dissolute; wasteful
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Stoic
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A person showing no emotion over pleasure or pain
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Uxorious
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Extravagantly submissive to, and doting upon, one's wife
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