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PIE, n. An...

PIE, n. An...

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

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PIRACY, n. Commerce...

PIRACY, n. Commerce...

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

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POLITENESS, n. The...

POLITENESS, n. The...

POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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POPULIST, n. A...

POPULIST, n. A...

POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas . ....

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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid...

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid...

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and...

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REASON, v.i. To...

REASON, v.i. To...

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

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PROOF-READER, n. A...

PROOF-READER, n. A...

PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it...

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RECONSIDER, v. To...

RECONSIDER, v. To...

RECONSIDER, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

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PREDILECTION, n. The...

PREDILECTION, n. The...

PREDILECTION, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.

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RECTOR, n. In...

RECTOR, n. In...

RECTOR, n. In the Church of England, the Third Person of the parochial Trinity, the Cruate and the Vicar being the...

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PREJUDICE, n. A...

PREJUDICE, n. A...

PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One...

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One...

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called...

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PRESCRIPTION, n. A...

PRESCRIPTION, n. A...

PRESCRIPTION, n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the...

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RETALIATION, n. The...

RETALIATION, n. The...

RETALIATION, n. The natural rock upon which is reared the Temple of Law.

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QUOTIENT, n. A...

QUOTIENT, n. A...

QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of...

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RESIGN, v.t. To...

RESIGN, v.t. To...

RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater...

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REPLICA, n. A...

REPLICA, n. A...

REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it...

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RIOT, n. A...

RIOT, n. A...

RIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

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UNIVERSALIST, n. One...

UNIVERSALIST, n. One...

UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.

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ZANY, n. A...

ZANY, n. A...

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the buffone, or clown, and...

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