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