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"I think the downside is that the sentence is abominable. A two-year sentence doesn't underscore the damage that was done."

From a distance, ranching and rodeo can be seen as anachronisms.

the baseness of ISIS group was abhorable.

synonym
caluminatory, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous

Unbowed, Trump fired a searing warning Tuesday via Twitter to fellow Republicans carping about his proposal.

Hardly one to fault others, Thaddeus surprised his colleagues when he began _____ even their most trivial mistakes.

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synoynm carp

Clement is clement because he never punish me too severely
clement weather

However, helping her die took a heavy toll on solicitous caregivers who felt complicit in a kind of murder.

Infamous for their insatiable ____________, the robber barons were finally held in check by the ascendancy of a more powerful centralized government.

A deposition of Cosby taken in that lawsuit in October, may prove another avenue in which accusations against him are aired in court.

Yet by the end of his third day, the pope had said or done absolutely nothing that might discomfit his official hosts.

My mom is such a doctrinaire, forcing me to drop comipiler course.

President Jacob Zuma has been more equivocal on the matter than his deputy minister.

One said that they had intended only to beat the teen, but decided to kill him when he showed no fear — and refused to grovel.

Because the corporation has suffered consecutive quarter losses, at times arbitrarily terminating jobs, employees fondly recall the ____________ days.

My mom is inimical toward my boyfriend because she feels that her daughter deserve a better person.

When you tell your boyfriend he’s not just the best boyfriend ever but also the world's best driver, and this makes him offer to drive the whole way on your upcoming road trip, then congratulations. You know how to inveigle, or use charm to coax someone into doing something.

I am such a irresolute person. I waver in my decision in applying to grad school.

Matt, who dropped out of graduate school and has jettisoned all worldly ambitions, is the play's mystery.

They were also judicious; they would reward a politician who got it right.

In the modish streets around Hongik University in Seoul, your correspondent glimpsed one male student looking fabulous in black eyeliner, eyebrow mascara and silver eyeshadow.

I am so munificent when buying stella her favorite diamond neckalace

pernicious weeds
Pernicious comes from the Latin perniciosus, for destructive, which in turn comes from pernicies, for death or ruin. You might have heard your parents and teachers talk about the pernicious effects of watching too much TV and playing video games all day––they'll turn your brain to mush.

If the company had been prodigal, it would have been wasting all of its money, spending it on useless thing.

This was not easy in New Netherland, although there was no legal proscription on manumission.

Horvath knew that the provenance of the information was illegal.

Kiki eating habits has a salubrious effect on her physical health.

Tangential means not directly related to the topic at hand.
The judge admonished the counsel to keep closing arguments germane and pertinent and thus refrain from citing evidence tangential to the proceedings.

If your basketball team wins a game by sheer truculence, it means that they win not by skill or talent, but by playing with ferocious aggression.

As is, I suppose, Donald Trump’s truculent defense of Christmas.

Traditionally (i) voiciferous in their criticism of the hazards of nuclear power—which are undeniably pressing—many environmental groups failed to cite any viable energy alternatives; still, these very groups often trumpeted the success of “green technologies,” innovations that, until very recently, were able to provide only a fraction of the power required to sustain a populace.

The old-fashioned word fain describes the feeling of gladly or willingly doing something. You would fain have stayed home, but you had to venture out in the rain.