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Ambrose Bierce
PIGMY, n. One...
PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in...
PRUDE, n. A...
PRUDE, n. A bawd hiding behind the back of her demeanor.
Source: The Devil's...
PLAGIARISM, n. A...
PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable...
POVERTY, n. A...
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all...
POLITENESS, n. The...
POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
PILGRIM, n. A...
PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms...
PYRRHONISM, n. An...
PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but...
PLAGIARIZE, v. To...
PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never...
PREDICAMENT, n. The...
PREDICAMENT, n. The wage of consistency.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
POLITICS, n. A...
POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private...
POLYGAMY, n. A...
POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished...
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly...
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable...
PLAGUE, n. In...
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar...
PRELATE, n. A...
PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A...
POSTERITY, n. An...
POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being...
POPULIST, n. A...
POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas . ....
R.I.P. A careless...
R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the...
PLAN, n. --...
PLAN, n. -- The best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
Source: The...
PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously...
PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
PRESIDENT, n. The...
PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom only -- it is positively known that...