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INCUMBENT, n. A person of the liveliest interest to the outcumbents.
Source: The...
IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas . . . that we are born with . . . . The doctrine of innate ideas is...
INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.
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INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection...
INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible . . . but there is no religion in...
INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is...
INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.
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IMPUNITY, n. Wealth.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a warm spot on the cushion of the throne....
INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has...
INVENTOR, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs, and believes it...
INJURY, n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight.
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INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability . . .
INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual...
INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
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JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . ...
INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and...
INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary pquo' given in exchange for a substantial pquid'.