Ambrose Bierce

AIR, n. A...

AIR, n. A...

AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the...

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ARDOR, n. The...

ARDOR, n. The...

ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Source: The...

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AMBITION, n. An...

AMBITION, n. An...

AMBITION, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when...

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ARENA, n. In...

ARENA, n. In...

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his...

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ARMOR, n. The...

ARMOR, n. The...

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

Source:...

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ALDERMAN, n. An...

ALDERMAN, n. An...

ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open...

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BACCHUS, n. A...

BACCHUS, n. A...

BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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ARCHBISHOP, n. An...

ARCHBISHOP, n. An...

ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

Source:...

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ARTLESSNESS, n. A...

ARTLESSNESS, n. A...

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring...

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ARREST, v.t. Formally...

ARREST, v.t. Formally...

ARREST, v.t. Formally to detain one accused of unusualness.

Source: The Devil's...

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APHORISM, n. Predigested...

APHORISM, n. Predigested...

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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BATH, n. A...

BATH, n. A...

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been...

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ARCHITECT, n. One...

ARCHITECT, n. One...

ARCHITECT, n. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

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AUSTRALIA, n. A...

AUSTRALIA, n. A...

AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably...

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ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously...

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously...

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity...

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AUCTIONEER, n. The...

AUCTIONEER, n. The...

AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his...

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BEG, v. To...

BEG, v. To...

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be...

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ART, n. This...

ART, n. This...

ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as One day a wag --...

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BATTLE, n. A...

BATTLE, n. A...

BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the...

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ASS, n. A...

ASS, n. A...

ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.

Source: The Devil's...

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