The [insert adjective] game gets a [insert adjective] makeover for [insert year].
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Word of the Day noun: a person without a home, job, or property noun: a ship abandoned on the high seas adjective: worn and broken down by hard use adjective: in deplorable condition adjective: failing in what duty requires adjective: forsaken by owner or inhabitants _________ The word derelict has appeared in 165 articles on NYTimes.
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Aromantic [ey-roh-man-tik] | adjective (aromantic people) An adjective used to describe people who do not experience romantic attraction (e.g.
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Asexual [ey-sek-shoo-uh l] | adjective (asexual people) An adjective used to describe people who do not experience sexual attraction (e.g.
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Queer [kweer] | adjective (queer people) An adjective used by some people, particularly younger people, whose sexual orientation is not exclusively heterosexual (e.g.
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Word of the Day adjective: sleep inducing adjective: inducing mental lethargy noun: a drug that induces sleep _________ The word soporific has appeared in 13 articles on nytimes.
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K4TeDkGo Gay [gey] | adjective (gay people) The adjective used to describe people whose enduring physical, romantic, and/ or emotional attractions are to people of the same gender (e.g.
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Word of the Day adjective: having or revealing supreme mastery or skill adjective: perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities adjective: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers verb: make perfect; bring to perfection verb: fulfill sexually _________ The word consummate has appeared in 112 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day adjective: moving and bending with ease adjective: (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely adjective: (used of personality traits) readily adaptable verb: make pliant and flexible _________ The word supple has appeared in 125 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Sept.
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Word of the Day adjective: capable of relieving pain adjective: unlikely to offend noun: a medicine used to relieve pain _________ The word anodyne has appeared in 58 articles on nytimes.
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Heterosexual [het-er-uh-sek-shoo-uh l] | adjective (heterosexual people) An adjective used to describe people whose enduring physical, romantic, and/ or emotional attraction is to people of the opposite sex.
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Word of the Day adjective: having a quality that thrusts itself into attention adjective: (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees adjective: represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward) noun: (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy _________ The word salient has appeared in 83 articles on NYTimes.
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Word of the Day adjective: characteristic of an enemy or one eager fight adjective: engaged in war noun: someone who fights (or is fighting) _________ The word belligerent has appeared 95 times on nytimes.
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One adjective that Wise did agree describes Darling is messy.
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It does not become an adjective, as many people think.
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Palin, the participial phrase seems to function as an adjective.
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That man didn't use a single adjective in 20 years.
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He decides to tack on third adjective to describe himself.
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My mental picture of her dissolved into his adjective soup.
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You don't need an adjective in the first two paragraphs.
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"I don't have an adjective for $70 billion a day."
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But she's also mom adjective — internetspeak for the absolute coolest.
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Word of the Day panegyric \ ˌpa-nə-ˈjir-ik , -ˈjī-rik \ adjective and noun adjective: formally expressing praise noun: a formal expression of praise _________ The word panegyric has appeared in six articles on nytimes.
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English is a Germanic language that allows for many different kinds of compounds, including those made from two adjectives ("blue-green"), two nouns ("kitchen sink"), adjective-noun ("darkroom"), noun-adjective ("slate-blue") and so on.
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Word of the Day adjective: unrestrained by convention or morality adjective: recklessly wasteful noun: a dissolute man in fashionable society noun: a recklessly extravagant consumer _________ The word profligate has appeared in 31 articles on nytimes.
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She didn't know what an adjective was (see: "uneducated" and "annoying").
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But as I continue watching, another adjective buries them all: free.
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The first known use of the adjective tenebrific was in 1785.
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Added one perfect adjective or geographical shading to pull you in.
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"No one adjective could be described to him," he told Rancic.
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He has also taken to using the adjective "huge" (see chart).
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Bald,,is a adjective,,,for zayn ,,, bc ,,,, he is ,,bald. pic.twitter.
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A Retrospective," to document Trump's affinity for the adjective; "Trump vs.
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Critics use the adjective "elliptical" a lot for Claire Denis's movies.
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I don't know if there's an adjective that sums that up.
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"Sensible" isn't an adjective you associate with either man these days.
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In fact, practically every time he's introduced, that adjective is applied.
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She knows that she's using it as an adjective, an adverb.
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"OCD isn't an adjective and this isn't a quirk," he says.
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Plath supplies the adjective, "delicious," as though they shared a mouth.
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No adjective I know does justice to the reading room itself.
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It could be a page, a section, an adverb, an adjective.
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"I just wanted a job," he added, using a colorful adjective.
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"We say there's an adjective missing in Dent's name," Donald notes.
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Word of the Day adjective: confidently optimistic and cheerful adjective: inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life noun: a blood-red color _________ The word sanguine has appeared in 121 articles on nytimes.
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Everyone puts in an adjective and a noun and then they shake it up and you pull out an adjective and a noun, so it's like Moist Anonymous was one of the bands, or like Scary Rainbow.
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Elegance is an adjective many strive to embody on their wedding days.
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Both candidates used this adjective to characterize each others foreign policy chops.
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I [ARTIST] is extremely [NEGATIVE ADJECTIVE], and they should feel [NEGATIVE EMOTION].
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Unfortunately, even accredited security certifications use the adjective in their very title.
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These are the only scenes in which the adjective "wondrous" truly applies.
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Socialism in any form, with any adjective, is a path to failure.
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She knows [how to use it] as an adjective, as an adverb.
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"Augmented" is worming its way into becoming the buzz adjective du jour.
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An earlier version of this article misused the adjective applied to Niger.
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"'Stupid' was the adjective I used," he said, explaining his early thinking.
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You don't need the protective irony of the adjective "ugly" at all.
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It could be noun, verb or adjective, indicating pep, liveliness and noise.
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Word of the Day noun: a pronoun that points out an intended referent adjective: serving to demonstrate adjective: given to or marked by the open expression of emotion _________ The word demonstrative has appeared in 27 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day noun: a person who dissents from some established policy adjective: characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards adjective: disagreeing, especially with a majority _________ The word dissident has appeared in 208 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day adjective: capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily adjective: involving deliberate burning of property adjective: arousing to action or rebellion noun: a criminal who illegally sets fire to property noun: a bomb that is designed to start fires and is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) _________ The word incendiary has appeared in 298 articles on nytimes.
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As for "the harmless three-letter adjective," that word has become a minefield.
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The scare-phrase ("abortion on demand") and redundant adjective ("immediate") contained a message.
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In 2016, I ran a [adjective that describes utter greatness] campaign for president.
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After all, there's a reason why the word 'robotic' is a pejorative adjective.
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Particularly common was "old," which I never thought would be my identifying adjective.
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"Intellectual" is an adjective often used to describe Watanabe's clothes, usually by journalists.
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"Monster Portraits" resists review and anticipates and complicates any attempt at an adjective.
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Critic's Notebook "Bleak" is the predominant adjective in writing about Michael Hersch's music.
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"Bess rewrites all the time, and minutiae — a pronoun, an adjective," Alexander said.
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That 'pythonesque' is now an adjective in the O.E.D. means we failed utterly.
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On the other hand, the adjective that best fits Garcia's effort was masterful.
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"Police, Adjective" is a seminar on law, ethics and the meaning of words.
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"Adulterated" makes me think more of contamination, and "Dirty" reads as an adjective.
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It is such a standard trope that Orwell's name has become an adjective.
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For the White House, the entire report comes down to a single adjective.
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Put together, they become an adjective and they are clued in that way.
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Word of the Day adjective: resembling human beings adjective: resembling apes noun: any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids noun: person who resembles a nonhuman primate _________ The word anthropoid has appeared in 17 articles on nytimes.
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In short, we think of "racist" as an insult rather than as an adjective.
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Meshugenah A crazy person (although it is also used as an adjective in Yinglish)
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"Would they describe anyone else interviewed that way, using that adjective?" asked Berkner Boyt.
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He considered the suggestion laughable, preposterous, pick your own adjective to describe such crazy.
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Some American universities are paying more attention to the noun than to the adjective.
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In today's [ADJECTIVE] culture, it is problematic when [THING MOST PEOPLE FIND INNOCUOUS] occurs.
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Cliché, maybe that's the adjective to use, but that sort of sums it up.
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"Unprecedented" is an adjective that's used with usual frequency about presidential action these days.
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What adjective would Times reporters use to describe the mood of the Republican Party?
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The adjective helped Nigel Richards of New Zealand win his fourth World Scrabble Championship.
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"Chris Sale dominant, strong, any adjective you want to attach to it," Farrell said.
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The word generated the adjective "truthy," which is also an official entry in the OED.
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I feel guilty using the word entertaining , but I think that's probably a reasonable adjective.
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It's hard to find an adjective that hasn't already been applied to Freddie Mercury's voice.
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NO WONK ASKED to describe their ideal health system would reach for the adjective American.
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When people speak about John Meehan, they tend to gravitate toward the same adjective: Evil.
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As of Season 7, however, we can add another adjective to this litany of descriptors.
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But for years now it's been a much more fitting adjective for Speaker Paul Ryan.
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Sure, it's part of a proper noun, but is it an adjective describing the donuts?
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With the proliferation of petty memes, petty has transitioned from simple adjective to something more.
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I am not sure why they have to have an adjective in front of admiral.
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"Lit" is an adjective to describe when something's amazing, exciting, high-energy, or otherwise great.
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"I suppose in the end the adjective has to be 'eccentric,' " he wrote in 1976.
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Use the wrong adjective and we'll tear you to pieces, then wait for an apology.
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" Wallace Matthews of ESPN says, "Choose your adjective: Repetitive. Monotonous. Dispiriting. Same-old/same-old.
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In reference to music writing any adjective should be taken with a grain of salt.
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A Word With Issa Rae is, be it noun or adjective, the definition of boss.
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"Content" meaning posts on social media, but he's making a pun on "content" the adjective!
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If I'm not overwhelmed, I'm some other adjective: anxious, melancholy, or varying degrees of unsettled.
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LOQUACIOUS was indeed 10 letters, but alas, an adjective — not a noun like the others.
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It's a good adjective, but it is rarely a literal description of a particular puzzle.
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Little-to-no junk, although SEEPY is admittedly a bit out there as an adjective.
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It's a happy story, and happy isn't an adjective thrown around often when discussing Woodman.
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This gave us a few years of "such adjective, very noun" language as a result.
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I'd say most trans women just want to be seen as 'women,' without the adjective.
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Word of the Day noun: someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline adjective: practicing great self-denial adjective: pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline _________ The word ascetic has appeared in 29 articles on nytimes.
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Closeted [kloz-i-tid] | adjective Describes a person who is not open about their sexual orientation.
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"Heavy" is not an adjective that we like to use when it comes to our hair.
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For example, it's possible to create a successful new noun, verb, or adjective without much difficulty.
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No need for a hyphen when an adverb ending in "ly" modifies an adjective or participle.
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I don't even know the proper adjective I can use to describe your act of generosity.
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Actress Lena Dunham even started a Twitter movement to embrace the adjective used to describe Clinton.
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" Using "so" amplifies or exaggerates whatever simple adjective the president's using — whether that's "great!" or "sick.
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"Large-scale" is the key adjective here for carbon capture, but even more so for bioenergy.
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Q. What adjective would you use to describe the current mayor's relationship to the Metro desk?
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"I should've used a different adjective because I didn't realize what would happen," Mr. Sokolich said.
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"I really want to say it's about time," he added, using a colorful adjective omitted here.
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The word "fantasque," originally French, is both noun (meaning fancy, fantasy) and adjective (meaning fanciful, fantastic).
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Lit: "Lit" is an adjective to describe when something's amazing, exciting, high-energy, or otherwise great.
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Here's what you find cringeworthy: The use of the word "race" as a noun or adjective.
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The word "complete" could be an adjective, as in a PDF contract that has been signed.
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I've said everything I know to say about him — I've used every adjective on the planet.
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Word of the Day adjective: capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement adjective: rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading noun: the act of arousing _________ The word rousing has appeared in 286 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Oct.
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Word of the Day adjective: proceeding in small stages adjective: (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt noun: (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass _________ The word gradual has appeared in 301 articles on nytimes.
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Our aesthetic is destroy, as the French say, who have converted the English verb into an adjective.
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I knew I wanted to have another adjective so I was thinking "Insecure..." and "confident," or whatever.
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Nominations that mention the nominee is beautiful "inside and out": 2900 Another adjective has also proved popular.
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"I mean, it's huge," she said, channeling her candidate's favorite adjective but not his sense of hyperbole.
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She calls herself "antisocial," though the adjective didn't jibe with her warmth and animation in that company.
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But "Czech" is an adjective and cannot be used as a one-word name for the country.
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Well, straightforward is perhaps not the right adjective for a show that keeps mutating like an amoeba.
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"Breathtaking" is an adjective most often cheaply used to describe artwork with pleasant colors or large scope.
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His chow mein, Paul said, was "delicious," inserting a celebratory, profane adverb in front of the adjective.
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I just finished Jesmyn Ward's luminous novel — and I don't use that adjective lightly — Sing, Unburied, Sing.
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Possibly this was because of his overwhelming popularity, tending to remove the necessity for any qualifying adjective.
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The White House later insisted that Mr. Trump had meant the word "military" only as an adjective.
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But the adjective that comes more readily to mind, as he runs a lackluster campaign, is beatable.
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A three-letter answer whose clue suggests an adjective describing a musical composition is most likely IN ?.
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I can't remember the verb he used, the adjective he used, but it wasn't ... It wasn't flattering.
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The adjective often implies a source of attraction but not necessarily of approval, depending on those involved.
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Word of the Day adjective: reversed (turned backward) in order, nature or effect adjective: opposite in nature, effect or relation to another quantity noun: something inverted in sequence, character or effect _________ The word inverse has appeared in 43 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Jan.
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Latinx [la-teen-ex] | adjective A gender-neutral term used to replace the gender-specific Latino or Latina.
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It is cheering to see that things like the adjective-order rule can go viral on social media.
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It has three speakers, Google calls them "extrusion speakers" although it's not clear what that adjective means here.
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Humble, courteous, grateful — name an adjective you would want from a chastened celebrity, and it applied to Rodriguez.
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But there's another sense in which swing isn't an adjective defining time, but a verb acting on it.
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Mr. Stoppard is the rare playwright — Shaw, Pirandello and Pinter are others — to have earned his own adjective.
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He emerged from Elizabeth, N.J., with a city kid's appreciation for a curse as noun, verb and adjective.
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And now "canon" has migrated from noun to adjective, giving the word thunder and muscle and curatorial certitude.
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The clue isn't actually looking for an adjective, and even so, I couldn't get VERY HIGH to fit.
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There were "Christians" — people with their own noun — and there were "Jewish" people — collectives described by an adjective.
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"Revolutionary" may be an over-used adjective, but how else to describe the rapid evolution in mobility technology?
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Use the word freely as an adjective (ethnic group), but not as a noun except in direct quotations.
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" Americans use the adjective "dark" to describe a certain kind of comedy, where Brits prefer the word "grim.
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Give Lee his due, and treat him like the great filmmaker — no additional adjective needed — that he is.
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" It can appear as an adjective, with one woman on Twitter describing her dog as "slightly ASBO-ish.
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Word of the Day astringent \ə-ˈstrin-jənt\ adjective or noun adjective: tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue noun: a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals _________ The word astringent has appeared in 16 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Nov.
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Word of the Day adjective: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle adjective: (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic noun: a country person noun: a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life _________ The word bucolic has appeared in 101 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day noun: a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt noun: writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) adjective: written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols adjective: resembling hieroglyphic writing _________ The word hieroglyphic has appeared in five articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day adjective: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground adjective: lying face downward verb: get into a prostrate position, as in submission verb: throw down flat, as on the ground verb: render helpless or defenseless _________ The word prostrate has appeared in 30 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day adjective: possessing or existing in bodily form adjective: invested with a bodily form, especially of a human body verb: represent in bodily form verb: make concrete and real _________ The word incarnate has appeared in 30 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Dec.
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Some think the Urban Dictionary definition is wrong, and say "headass" is more of an adjective than a noun.
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Good is usually an adjective that describes something; if you did a good job, then you do good work.
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There's one adjective Facebook uses over and over to describe the kind of content it hopes to show you.
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It's literally right there in the etymology of the adjective a lot of reporters pick to describe the guy!
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Having an "Oscar-nominated" or "Oscar-winning" adjective attached to one's name immediately adds value in a cutthroat market.
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For those credit admirers, having good credit most often suggested that another person was responsible (73% used that adjective).
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The adjective can come off as a kind of decoration -- it feels parenthetical, even when talking about something innocuous.
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But the fact that the statement involves an adjective like 'appropriate' pushes the statement closer to be an opinion.
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I like that you used Hold Steadifying as a verb, because I wanted to use Springsteeniness as an adjective.
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I still don't care for "narrative" as a noun but I'm reconciled to it, these days, as an adjective.
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Other than the adjective "young," nobody could have described the arc of the Trump-Clinton campaign with greater accuracy.
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But "dark" isn't the only adjective that might get applied to the film, Kasdan told the Los Angeles Times.
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Mr. Stern needed a word to describe a character's nose, and asked his friend Mr. Price for an adjective.
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"Demented" is the adjective that attaches like a lesion to those of us who belong to the Mets tribe.
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Perhaps this is the inevitable fate of writers and artists distinctive enough to have an adjective named after them.
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"I'm not sure that's so strange ," he says, as if there were a superior adjective he's reluctant to share.
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But if I'm spending $110 on a dress shirt, "casual" is not really an adjective that comes to mind.
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The first adjective used of Odysseus in the epic—it comes in line 1, soon after andra —is polytropos .
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Fortunately, it's a purgatory that serves drinks—exceptionally good ones, for which the adjective "heavenly" does not overstate things.
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"His responses to international events are so chaotic, stupid, uninformed," Larry adds, increasing in indignation with each new adjective.
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Do you think we might see something as drastic as people using an adjective after a noun in English?
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Mr. Michele's omnivorous imagination is like the Blob, indiscriminately absorbing any adjective, philosopher and decorative detail in its path.
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Thoughts of Nixon inevitably bring one to Hillary Clinton, so often described by the adjective formed from Nixon's name.
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But "evangelical" has gone from being an adjective to a noun, a simplistic tribal identity that commands Republican affiliation.
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The medical adjective for many of these patients, "noncompliant," and the medical term for their behavior, "nonadherence," are insulting.
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Rosie O'Donnell's looking forward to having a President who's armed with more than one adjective ... and she's confident Sen.
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There was the shaping paradox: our innate provincialism made us Americans, unhyphenated at that, in no need of an adjective, suspicious of any adjective that would narrow the implications of the imposingly all-inclusive noun that was—if only because of the galvanizing magnum opus called the Second World War—our birthright.
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Word of the Day adjective: harshly ironic or sinister adjective: of a substance, especially a strong acid, capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action noun: a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process _________ The word mordant has appeared in 55 articles on NYTimes.
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Gender-fluid [jen-der-floo-id] | adjective (gender fluid people) Someone for whom gender identity and presentation is a spectrum.
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Polyamorous [pol-ee-am-er-uh s] | adjective (polyamorous people) Describes people who have consensual relationships that involve multiple partners.
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I started saying to my agents, 'Don't send me scripts where the first adjective in the female description is 'beautiful.
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Mrs Merkel has a habit of using compound adjectives (noun-adjective words) when more committal, less wooly alternatives would do.
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To be sure, Apple spared no adjective when hocking the range of devices, calling them "new" over and over again.
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That said, we can't think of another adjective that better describes the upcoming In The Flesh eyeshadow palette from MAC.
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The city's name was turned into a new adjective used to describe the most egregious food treatments Twitter could conjure.
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Yet, he is well-liked, and the adjective "popular" always seems to be used to describe his present political status.
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Immediately, comparisons were made to the debate behavior of Donald Trump, which was even more fitting of the disapproving adjective.
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"Chill" can be an adjective to describe someone who's cool to spend time with or something that's fun to do.
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Look up the etymology of 'anger' and you'll find that it derives from the Old Norse adjective 'ongrfullr' meaning 'sorrowful.
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The adjective helped Nigel Richards, who is from New Zealand and lives in Malaysia, win his fourth World Scrabble Championship.
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"When we talk about poor people, people forget to put the adjective 'working poor' in front of it," Wise said.
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Word of the Day adjective: costing nothing adverb: without payment _________ The word gratis has appeared in 12 articles on NYTimes.
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This elliptical 2013 movie from Corneliu Porumboiu ("Police, Adjective") opens with an unhurried argument between a director and an actress.
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Also, it was really sexy, an adjective that has rarely ever been used to describe anything related to the Papacy.
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"Calmer, in brief" refers to the shortening of the noun "tranquilizer" to TRANQ, although "calmer" could also be an adjective.
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Even if not defending explicitly the adjective of "socialism," Democrats' nominee likely will implicitly have to defend against the charge.
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"Listen, it's a weird thing," Astley said, using his go-to adjective for most things that have happened to him.
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Word of the Day adjective: of or relating to the period before the biblical flood adjective: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period noun: any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge noun: a very old person _________ The word antediluvian has appeared in 12 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day adjective: native to or confined to a certain region adjective: originating where it is found adjective: of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality noun: a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location noun: a plant that is native to a certain limited area _________ The word endemic has appeared in 157 articles on NYTimes.
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Word of the Day adjective: pleasing to the sense of taste adjective: having an agreeably pungent taste adjective: morally wholesome or acceptable noun: an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre noun: any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees noun: either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family noun: dwarf aromatic shrub of Mediterranean regions _________ The word savory has appeared in 247 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Feb.
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Word of the Day adjective: applicable to an entire class or group adjective: relating to or common to or descriptive of all members of a genus adjective: (of drugs) not protected by trademark noun: any product that can be sold without a brand name noun: a wine that is a blend of several varieties of grapes with no one grape predominating; a wine that does not carry the name of any specific grape _________ The word generic has appeared in 546 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Oct.
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Aliagender [ah-lee-uh-jender] | adjective (aliagender people) Someone who defines their gender as "other" than a man or a woman.
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Bigender [bahy-jen-der] | adjective (bigender people) Someone who identifies with two distinct genders, such as man/woman or woman/androgyne.
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Cisgender [sis-jen-der] | adjective (cisgender people (not cisgenders)) A term used by some to describe people who are not transgender.
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Feminine-presenting [fem-uh-nin - pri-zent-ing] | adjective (feminine-presenting people) Describes someone who expresses gender in a feminine way.
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Masculine-presenting [mas-kyuh-lin - pri-zent-ing] | adjective (masculine-presenting people) Describes someone who expresses gender in a masculine way.
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Pilipinx | adjective (pilipinx people) Like Latinx, Pilipinx is a gender-neutral term used to replace the gendered words Filipino or Filipina.
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Transfeminine [trans-fem-uh-in] | adjective (transfeminine people) Someone who was assigned male at birth, but identifies and presents as feminine.
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Trigender [trahy-jender] | adjective (trigender people) Someone who experiences three distinct genders, either all at once or is moving between them.
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"At Out magazine, we repeatedly told everyone that the name of the magazine was an adjective, not a verb," he wrote.
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An adjective used to describe people whose enduring physical, romantic, and/ or emotional attraction is to people of the opposite gender.
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The unfortunate result is a form of "adjective inflation" in recruitment ads as employers attempt to make routine tasks sound exciting.
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While Virtue and Moir are undeniably amazing/sexy/talented/driven/insert adjective here, it's not like Reynolds and Lively are chumps.
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Look up dependent in adjective form, however, and you are likely to see words such as weak, helpless, debased and subordinate.
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And it has become such a part of the establishment that Mr. Alhadeff joked about using the name as an adjective.
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A car with a dry-erase surface will travel across the country, recording Mad Libs in search of America's favorite adjective.
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They are for open borders, letting any [very, very negative adjective] individual cross into America without even knowing who they are.
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CJ McCollum's "Sneaky Athleticism" The adjective "sneaky-athletic" is 99.9 percent reserved for non-black players who are actually incredibly athletic.
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" Translators have usually solved the problem by skipping the adjective, or putting in something more traditional — Fagles mentions Penelope's "steady hand.
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Those three words have become an adjective ascribed to most of the initiatives that have been presented in the last fortnight.
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That's true despite the possessive adjective in the title, or the fact that the director, an artist, plays an artist, Ellie.
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"I would say panic would be the adjective to describe the mood right now," he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
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"I would say 'panic' would be the adjective to describe the mood right now," former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel told CNN.
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It's easier to think of "dying" as an adjective than a verb, as in a dying patient or one's dying words.
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When they ran out of superlatives, they both settled on a single adjective: "red," summing up all a strawberry should be.
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Though perhaps there's one requirement for a good beach read: It has to be "unputdownable," an adjective reserved entirely for good books.
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The adjective most frequently applied to Steve Gunn's guitar playing is "meditative," but that doesn't quite capture the purposeful intensity of it.
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Hence the term "blue-blooded," an adjective that implies aristocrats have skin so pale it provides a clear canvas for their veins.
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To be murdered, it was horrible, but to be murdered the way he was murdered, I don't have an adjective for that.
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PEOPLE tend to disagree on which adjective best describes Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's strategy chief, but most agree that he is canny.
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Iggy, who was punk before the word existed, uses "fuck" as an adjective, verb, and noun—but always through a sardonic grin.
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Unfortunately, more often than not, the love is lost; the frames are either too small, too large, or too (insert adjective here).
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Characters say exactly what they're thinking in the flattest way possible; Lanthimos writes like he is levied a fine for every adjective.
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" But Gearhart, a retired program director for the visually impaired, can think of only one adjective to describe life without Poppet: "Awful.
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At this point, the only real question appears to be how huge (or beautiful—pick your Trumpian adjective) the margin will be.
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A staffer told guests which theater to head for by repeating "Majestic, Colossal, Majestic, Colossal, Majestic, Colossal" like a hyperbolic adjective automaton.
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They are part of a culture of "kawaii," the Japanese word for cute, an adjective not generally associated with construction sites elsewhere.
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"We live in a society that is increasingly 'Yelpish' — if that can be used as an adjective," says the artist Alexandre Singh.
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But I'll be right here, [bellicose verb] for the American people -- ensuring that their border is [adjective for the tightest security ever].
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One favorite device, for instance, is called "enallage," in which an adjective is pointedly displaced from the noun it should, logically, modify.
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POTUS didn't have a Twitter account, new gTLDs (generic top-level domains) were still a dream and Uber was just an adjective.
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In modern Greek, epítheto means "adjective," but Homeric epithets are loaded, often thrillingly ambiguous, and can act as a catalyst for drama.
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"Encrusted" might be the defining adjective to apply to the pricey, themed wares ("Game of Thrones," Samurai) of Montegrappa, an Italian brand.
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"Now it's something really empowering," said Orissy, 22, after an Overwatch match, using an adjective that came up often in egirl interviews.
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Word of the Day puckish \ ˈpə-kish \ adjective : naughtily or annoyingly playful _________ The word puckish has appeared in 31 articles on nytimes.
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"He didn't look down on foreign places he visited and their 'quaintness/backwardness/insert-usual-derogatory adjective,'" the journalist Rania Abouzeid tweeted.
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I then started looking for other celebrities with adjective last names and found the set JAMES BLUNTLY, HOWARD STERNLY, and GLENN CLOSELY.
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Agender [ey-jen-der] | adjective (agender people) A person who does not identify with any gender, or intentionally doesn't follow expectations of gender.
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Lesbian [lez-bee-uh n] | adjective (lesbian women/lesbians) A woman whose enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attraction is to other women.
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There really is no theme beyond "it's Friday night and we're in Queens," which is the show's slogan, minus an off-color adjective.
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For example, "the" is far more likely to be followed by a noun or an adjective than by a verb or an adverb.
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The fact that Mr Trump has already labelled Ms Harris "nasty"—an adjective he applied to Mrs Clinton—suggests they might be right.
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For Roosevelt, bully was an adjective meaning "excellent" or "first-rate" — not the noun bully ("a blustering, browbeating person") that's so common today.
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It makes sense that shop-owners want to be associated with the animal that inspired the adjective "foxy"—the animal is objectively cool.
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Hygge can be used as a noun, adjective or verb (to hygge oneself), and events and places can also be hyggelige (hygge-like).
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In that [adjective meaning glorious -- oh hell, just say "glorious"] race, I promised we would build a wall to protect our southern border.
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No adjective-overloaded comments when federal judges decide against an administration, except to note that a Democrat or Republican president appointed him/her.
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Switch&aposs Netflix-Like Classic Game Service Is A Rare Example Of Nintendo ListeningThe noun "Nintendo" can also be used as an adjective.
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"And therefore, maybe there will be a time in which we will cross out this adjective -- 'fatal' -- from the name of the disease."
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If you just let yourself go, close your eyes, and think back to 2010, before most people were using "fire" as an adjective.
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What's next: Look for Amazon to tout how this was the biggest and best Prime Day ever in an adjective-filled press release.
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"Wonderful is the nearest adjective for this excursion," this newspaper's critic proclaimed, in a judgment almost universally shared from that day to this.
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Or they said, people could use "majority agreement," with the adjective matching the gender of the noun with the biggest number of members.
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So, I -- I don't know what adjective you want to use but I still think it's -- we have this pretty well in hand.
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I also like the connection that can be drawn between the two 15-letter entries, with the first even clued as an adjective.
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Word of the Day noun: a mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves adjective: idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquillity adjective: marked by peace and prosperity _________ The word halcyon has appeared in 32 articles on nytimes.
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Gender questioning [jen-der - kwes-chuh-ning] | adjective A person who is questioning their current gender identity and/or exploring other identities and presentations.
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Soft butch [sawft boo ch] | adjective (soft butches, soft butch people) Used to describe a queer woman who presents masculine, but also slightly feminine.
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" A White House spokesperson said Trump did not misspeak by calling deportations a 'military operation,' but clarified the President meant "military" as an "adjective.
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He admitted to having "no idea" as to the meaning of "pratincolous," an adjective that describes creatures that live in meadows or grassy areas.
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"It's at an extreme level, I mean dangerous just doesn't do it as an adjective," Luis Salazar, with the nation's meteorological service told Reuters.
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Homosexual [hoh-muh-sek-shoo-uh l] | adjective (homosexual people) An outdated clinical term referring to queer people that is considered derogatory and offensive.
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My friend told me before I saw the movie that he thought it was "cruel," an adjective I didn't quite understand until that moment.
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The leathers and woods are real, and making it a thing of beauty isn't an adjective, but a prerequisite for design chief Marek Reichman.
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"Being favorites is no title, it's an adjective, you win titles thanks to what you do on the pitch, and little else," he said.
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But now, [adjective for lowliest scum on earth] Democrats in Congress are keeping the government closed because they don't care about keeping you safe.
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This often occurs with adjunct nouns, a phrase where a noun acts as an adjective describing another noun — like "chicken soup" or "dance club."
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In short: I think the adjective "wanton" is a patriarchal trap, one that has long been used to stigmatize (if not criminalize) feminine sexuality.
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Many countries settle for just an alliterative adjective: Brilliant Barbados, Epic Estonia, Incredible India, Remarkable Rwanda and, at the alliterative apex, Pristine Paradise Palau.
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All these groups are [adjective] people, people with an asterisk, while a white, heterosexual male is simply a person, as generic as he chooses.
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Demiboy [dem-ee-boy] | adjective (demiboys) Similar to bigender, someone who identifies as a demiboy experiences their gender as partly boy and partly another gender.
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Pangender [pan-jen-der] | adjective (pangender people) A Non-binary gender identity, referring to people who experience all gender identities either simultaneously or over time.
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I think the film is best described as "Buddish," an adjective coined by the film's director, Harold Ramis, to sum up his own belief system.
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The luxurious, customized service from check-in to landing was stellar, and dinner was delicious — an adjective one can rarely use to describe airplane food.
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" She describes their work as "spiritual"; the word "moving," in the group's name, works as both an action and an adjective, as in "emotionally moving.
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If there is an adjective that means I don't fit the mold of what our culture demands of women, then that's the one for me.
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Does that adjective "certain" suggest that these are confident women, randomly selected women, or the kinds of assertive women that uptight, unenlightened men would scorn?
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Coming from Latin rapere, its oldest sense involves neither sex nor bodily harm; it means to take something by force (as in the adjective, "rapacious").
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That's how he rolls, and many people are just fine with it because they find him so inspirational, believable, visionary, authentic — choose your laudatory adjective.
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And as she speaks it, an adjective acquires the weight of a noun, while a season is somehow transformed into a pervasive state of mind.
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You can convert a noun by reconceiving it as an adjective and adding the suffix to make a big, beautiful adverb, to put it Trumpily.
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Authentic The go-to adjective for any garment designed to resemble the clothing of the working class, starving artists, various rural types or indigenous peoples.
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But she also starred in the 1964 musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," a title whose adjective best explains the full Debbie Reynolds experience: maximum buoyancy.
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Even so, the President, who finds no adjective too offensive, no threat too outlandish when dealing with others, continues to handle Russia with kid gloves.
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"Perhaps it's time to stop using the adjective 'escalating' to describe the trade war," said Ed Yardeni, president and chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research.
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Word of the Day noun: a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class adjective: characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position adjective: of or characteristic of a parvenu _________ The word parvenu has appeared in five articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day adjective: occurring every second year adjective: having a life cycle lasting two seasons noun: an event that occurs every two years noun: (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season _________ The word biennial has appeared in 221 articles on nytimes.
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Word of the Day adjective: closely and firmly united or packed together adjective: having a short and solid form or stature adjective: briefly giving the gist of something verb: make more compact by or as if by pressing verb: squeeze or press together verb: compress into a wad verb: have the property of being packable or of compacting easily noun: a small and economical car noun: a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse noun: a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action _________ The word compact has appeared in 351 articles on nytimes.
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Demigirl [dem-ee-gurl] | adjective (demigirls) Similar to bigender, someone who identifies as a demigirl experiences their gender as partly a girl and partly another gender.
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Gender creative [jender-kree-ey-tiv] | adjective (gender creative people) People, usually children, who don't conform to gender stereotypes but also don't necessarily identify as transgender.
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But until now, those who don't geek out over the newest software and hardware releases might have had trouble pairing that particular adjective with the technology.
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During the match, a co-commentator with Slutsky referred to "pile-on" or "high-pressure" football, using a rare adjective that is identical to Navalny's surname.
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The early Roman imperial geographer, Strabo, noted a number of variegated marbles in his Geography, and applied the Greek adjective ποικίλος, meaning a many-colored object.
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There's no way you'd ever say "I advice you to...." Aggressive is a very popular business adjective: aggressive sales force, aggressive revenue projections, aggressive product rollout.
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All that was required was a simple one-word adjective for how I was feeling in each of the following areas: emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically.
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The two earnestly discuss their feelings with their father in a way that's so deeply personal and — I think it's fair to use this adjective — inspirational.
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Snickers has a marketing campaign in which the main logo on the packaging is replaced by an adjective related to moods, like sleepy, impatient or grouchy.
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And while it's a word that many would associate with Meade, when she was asked how she would describe herself, the adjective wasn't on her list.
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The extra adjective is intended to assuage long-standing fears in Athens of a territorial claim on the Greek region of Macedonia south of the border.
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"Professional," however, was an adjective that really only described the latter half of Slice's life, the part that would rock the sport of mixed martial arts.
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But the adjective could be applied in the most flattering terms to Emanuel Ax's engrossing interpretation of Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata on Wednesday evening at Carnegie Hall.
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As adjective-noun-verb, "punk" implies youth ("youthiness"?), sexiness, originality, belonging, spontaneity, rebellion, humor (one hopes) and a mode that's very stylish and a bit transgressive.
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He blended in quickly, as the new foursome, having dropped the "Young" adjective, prepared for and then won the London International String Quartet Competition in 2009.
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In that wider context, the first episode of "Amazing Stories," which is all that Apple made available, is OK, but doesn't merit its A-list adjective.
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As chairman, Rodino seemed "unlikely" — a frequently applied adjective that may have implied something about the name ending in a vowel and the New Jersey accent.
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Ms. Wanamaker's Meg looks taken aback early on by Petey's use of the adjective "succulent" — one that is clearly more suggestive than she is used to.
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Word of the Day adjective: (informal) small and of little importance noun: a small, unimportant matter _________ The word picayune has appeared in 46 articles on NYTimes.
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Word of the Day adjective: capable of relieving pain noun: a medicine used to relieve pain _________ The word analgesic has appeared in seven articles on nytimes.
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They explained that "cobra," from their label's moniker, "was used as an adjective to describe a mind-set" during the initial days of the brand's development.
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Others were quick to warn of the linguistic perils of losing the circumflex to distinguish between sûr, or sure, an adjective, and, sur, or on, a preposition.
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Androsexual/Androphilic [an-druh-sek-shoo-uh l] [an-druh-fil-ik] | adjective (androsexual people, androphilic people) Being primarily sexually, aesthetically, and/or romantically attracted to masculinity.
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High femme [hahy fem] | adjective (high femmes, high femme people) Often used to describe a lesbian, bisexual, or queer woman who presents and identifies firmly as feminine.
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Skoliosexual [scho-lee-o sek-shoo-uh l] | adjective (skoliosexual people) Being primarily sexually, romantically, and/or aesthetically attracted to genderqueer, transgender, and/or non-binary people.
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You can write "we have zero tolerance for bad punctuation," but when "zero tolerance" is used to modify a noun, it acts a bit like an adjective.
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Perhaps if Islam were something most of us had had little reason to think about, then qualifying its name with an adjective could qualify as neutral expression.
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At this point, it's ineffable: A daddy both is and is not a real live person because a daddy is an adjective, noun, and rubric of measurement.
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"Unputdownable" is the adjective a book needs in order to sell, and selling is the thing that makes a book pick-up-able by the publishing house.
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The adjective vergilianae , which means "having to do with Vergilius," identifies the book: the works of the Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro, whom we know as Virgil .
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In unscripted remarks in December Mr. Putin used a Russian adjective — "yarki" — that Mr. Trump has said means brilliant, though it can also mean colorful or flamboyant.
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One of my first cultural memories of a sardonic adverbial take on super comes from the 1999 movie "Election" ("Fargo" used it memorably as an adjective, too).
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You might have initially read this as an adjective, but today, using the magic of the question mark, it is a noun, and the answer is OPIATE.
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The term "environmentalist" may not be the first adjective that comes to mind when you hear the name Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has owned multiple gas-guzzling Hummers.
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Word of the Day noun: a steerable self-propelled aircraft adjective: capable of being steered or directed _________ The word dirigible has appeared in five articles on NYTimes.
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Others attribute the adjective to John Segal, who made a habit of covering the floor in sawdust to expedite cleaning after taking over from Vigderman in 1959.
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The big picture: It's the latest lexical stretch for an adjective that's widely used in reports of cybersecurity incidents — and widely loathed by researchers as a result.
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" Despite a 37-page indictment with a long narrative on a coordinated Russian campaign of interference, the most newsworthy fact comes from the carefully placed adjective "unwitting.
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" Morgan further claimed that "invasion" is a worthy term for "a crisis problem," adding, "I don't think the issue is to quibble over what terminology or adjective.
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"Kafkaesque" is overused as an adjective to describe authoritarian regimes, but one aspect of the word is apt — the comic absurdity of how power is sometimes wielded.
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Word of the Day adjective: of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750 adjective: having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation noun: elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century _________ The word baroque has appeared in 318 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Jan.
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Demiromantic [dem-ee-roh-man-tik] | adjective (demiromantic people) People who do not experience romantic attraction until a strong emotional or sexual connection is formed with a partner.
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Gender variant [jen-der-vair-ee-uh nt] | adjective (gender variant people) Like gender nonconforming, gender variant is an umbrella term used for anyone who is not cisgender.
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Trans [trans] | adjective (trans people) Used as shorthand to mean transgender or transsexual — or sometimes to be inclusive of a wide variety of identities under the transgender umbrella.
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Because to express sexual desire without shame isn't just uncomfortable for certain people—it's scary; an adjective that has been used to describe Grace Jones more than once.
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RICHARD WYNNESeattle I was pleased to read Mark Forsyth's recommendations on adjective order as "opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose and then Noun" (Johnson, September 24th).
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The French language requires a gender for every single noun and adjective: not only men and women, bulls and cows, but also tables and chairs, rocks and bricks.
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"We have customers located across the globe and in many different industries, but if we had to pick a common adjective it would be people-driven," adds Böhringer.
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People who had known the word "derivative" only as an adjective in book reviews were now using it as a noun; "subprime" entered the vocabulary of the uninitiated.
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Given how eagerly word-nerds recently shared this tit-bit about adjective order on social media, the lecture-halls for linguistics classes should be crammed to the rafters.
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Critics love the adjective "timeless," but the truth is that most writers, even most exceptionally gifted ones, are of a time, even if not always of their own.
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Mr Emmerich recently commented that superhero films were "silly" compared to his own brand of blockbuster, but he should be careful about using that adjective as an insult.
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No one can seem quite so alive on the page as Plath — "I have become a verb, instead of an adjective," she sang, with months left to live.
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Without the adjective "white," the term is meaningless as a predictor of group thinking and behavior; but without the noun "working class" it misses the other key demographic.
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The word "humble" travels so often now as a verb that embodying its gentler spirit, the adjective, can be an invitation to online trolling, professional invisibility or worse.
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City GirlsThere's an easy joke to be made here wherein we replace "City" with a poop-related adjective used to describe something bad, but we're not doing it.
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" It's tricky because the clue presents "A lunatic," which made me think of a synonym that is a noun, like a nutjob, instead of an adjective, like "mad.
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" It's tricky because the clue presents "A lunatic," which made me think of a synonym that is a noun, like a nutjob, instead of an adjective, like "mad.
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While the reckless and unjustified use of "Nazi" as an adjective is on an inflationary upward trend, the comparison between BDS and the Nazi era warrants being drawn.
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I'd choose a different adjective, which I won't reproduce here, but those antlers are absolutely brilliant, especially given how much time they sat at the bottom of a lake.
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Trump has been referring to the Affordable Care Act as "dead" since 2013, but it turns out he likes to use that adjective for a few other things, too.
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Resilient. Unassailable. Unshakable. Choose the adjective you prefer to describe what you prefer — the markets or the administration because they are inextricably linked as witnessed in this week's action.
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Seth: My immediate thought is that putting an adjective in front of sadness hopefully makes it understandable as speaking to a deeper level of sadness, and resolve within sadness.
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Then there's another scene with Annie standing up and saying, "I'm fat, I'm fucking fat, you know?!" in which fat isn't a bad word but an adjective, a declaration.
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Above the space set aside for a replacement library, the developers erected a 2000-story hotel and apartment tower called the Baccarat, for which the adjective "luxury" scarcely suffices.
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The adjective "green" is of course as susceptible to abusive and hypocritical invocation as any other high-sounding slogan, but some such—still capitalist, merely reformist, finally inadequate—U.
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I read considerable talk about "the democratic" as applying to the process of getting socialism; damn little about it as an adjective applying to socialism when you get it.
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It agreed with the linguistic community that he tends to use "big league" as an adverb even though it is usually used as an adjective or a figurative noun.
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The long answer goes something like this: The "Quirky" Trope A lot of the comments you see about Sarah utilize the word "quirky," or use "Brooklyn" as an adjective.
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The other was Utley's three-word proclamation in a ceremony after the World Series parade: "World champions," he declared, on live TV, with a choice adjective in the middle.
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The word has appeared recently as both an adjective and a cultural geotag, locating a book, TV show or podcast left-of-center on the spectrum of Black Cool.
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In "Voice," Nate has to endure the mockery of his slick older brother, who repeatedly describes Nate's fragile state with an adjective that's as vulgar as it is emasculating.
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The Clippers played in the afternoon against the hapless (a needless adjective) Knicks, and the Lakers took the gym back that evening for a game against the Detroit Pistons.
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I prefer the adjective "Jewish" which often calls for at least one additional characteristic about the person being described - a Jewish American, a Jewish actress, a Jewish philosopher etc.
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" And former Senator Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, Mr. Clinton's friend who had joined his legal team, told the Senate: "You pick your own adjective to describe the president's conduct.
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It's fitting that he chose "unhappy" as an adjective, because his juxtapositions of opposites remained cold and distant, no matter how much their forms aspired to real-world metaphors.
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Word of the Day noun: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support noun: anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place adjective: wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community adjective: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another verb: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment _________ The word vagabond has appeared in 25 articles on nytimes.
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Sincerely,Feeling Cheated Dear Feeling Cheated,I intended to write something clever about how "cheated" is both a verb (a thing you do) and an adjective (a thing you feel).
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CBS also uses its heavyweight "The Big Bang Theory" to launch the comedy "Superior Donuts," which doesn't live up to that adjective, while NBC's "Powerless" weakly executes an interesting concept.
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He added an extra adjective so there was no confusion, warning the public that "real Nazis" are poised to return to Germany's parliament for the first time since Hitler's defeat.
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Beautiful, according to a man named Donald John Trump: A word that can replace pretty much any positive adjective and be used to describe manufacturing firms, auto workers, and coal.
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Today, French advocates of gender-neutral language would also prefer the adjective to obey a rule of proximity, and agree with the gender of the nearest noun in a sentence.
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Post-truth is defined as an adjective "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief".
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Note, for example, the use of the comparative adjective "clearer" in Facebook's statement to explain its intent for the rebranding — rather than a simple statement: 'we want to be clear'.
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In a half-step toward enfranchising the freed people, the 14th Amendment penalizes states that withhold the vote from "male" citizens — the first use of that adjective in the Constitution.
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For example, when you see a company using its brand as an adjective ("Use a Xerox copier") rather than a verb ("Go Xerox this"), it is trying to prevent genericization.
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In its place, the teachers suggested using "the rule of proximity," in which the adjective matches the gender of the noun closest to it, which was common practice for centuries.
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Word of the Day adjective: alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) noun: a novice learning the rudiments of some subject _________ The word abecedarian has appeared in four articles on NYTimes.
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Word of the Day adjective: of or associated with the great masses of people noun: one of the common people _________ The word plebeian has appeared in five articles on nytimes.
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He said that Mr. Trump had not meant to characterize the deportation efforts as a military operation, arguing that the president had been using the word "military" as an adjective.
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"Very far east," notes Bill Rodgers (the sweet-faced Paul Chahidi), the senior politico who accompanies his mock-triumphant arrival by producing some "whiffy" — there's a British adjective for you!
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However, I am just optimistic enough to believe that, if that young man were to experience a derisive adjective himself, he, too, might feel limited and gradually explore beyond it.
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The adjective "alt-right" does not just denote recycled extremist views — it also reflects the way those views have been pollinated by other internet concerns and updated in the process.
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Speaking of laughing: I read Future Sex described somewhere as "hilarious," and I'm going to sound like I'm insulting you when I say I couldn't disagree with that adjective more.
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Pansexual [pan-sek-shoo-uh l] | adjective (pansexual people) A person who has the capacity to form enduring physical, romantic, and/ or emotional attractions to any person, regardless of gender identity.
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The editor in me is instantly angry about this title's structure: "Rich" is an adjective, while "Fame" is a noun, so it should be Riches over Fame or Rich over Famous.
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Trump's ongoing fixation with female bodily functions -- "disgusting" is a common adjective he uses about women -- suggests that behind his rambunctiousness lies a great anxiety about female bodies and female power.
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Intergender [in-ter-jender] | adjective (intergender people) Someone who experiences their gender as in between other genders, such as someone whose gender falls somewhere between being a man or a woman.
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The lead single of that album, "2 + 2 = 5," is a reference to a famous scene from George Orwell's 1984, thus ensuring "Orwellian" as the most overused adjective in Radiohead reviews.
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This incredible list of all 76,000 subgenres classifies the streaming service's catalogue of TV shows and movies by genre, subgenre, sub-subgenre, language, decade, topic, star, director and/or relevant adjective.
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Now, instead of associating them with eroticism, the artist prefers to define their drawings as intimate, because this adjective gives a more "personal, spontaneous and sincere" idea of what is presented.
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And if you're one of the readers prone to describing our coverage of the artists above as "unyielding" or "bothersome" or [insert critical adjective], there's still plenty for you to enjoy.
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Here is what I learnt from reading this article: If the adjective you are using to describe a body part could equally apply to a root vegetable, pick a different word.
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And yet, the adjective is all over the internet as the all-encompassing moniker of choice in almost any how-to service piece that has ever crawled across your Facebook feed.
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And from there you can spin out other noun-adjective combinations, which similarly work in forward or reverse: confidence/shaky. Centrality/marginal. Generosity/self-absorbed. Forethought/nostalgic. Hardness/tender. Severity/sweet.
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We start our solve off with "Fair," and not only must we determine if this is referring to a noun or an adjective, but EQUITABLE isn't exactly the easiest word either.
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"In fact, if you listen to someone use 'like,' you'll sometimes notice that the next noun or verb or adjective that comes along sounds more prominent," she said in an email.
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"Really fancy" would indicate either a verb, like "adore," or an adjective, like "showy"; the entry here, CRAVE, makes me think of a slightly different type of desire, but it works.
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Anecdotal ledes are those narrowly focused, adjective-rich tales that are meant to place readers in the shoes of those whose lives are affected by whatever it is the story involves.
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This year he's been using Zumiez, the clothing store, as an adjective to describe the way something sounds, which is just fascinating, and will certainly be adopted into the Noisey lexicon.
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These women were laying their own claim to "sexy," an adjective that — amid an endless stream of reports about sexual assault and harassment — has more often been wielded as a weapon.
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He probably instead wanted to transform "beast mode" or "being a beast on the field" into some kind of fun adjective that describes his preferred mode of aggressive and physical play.
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Masculine-of-center [mas-kyuh-lin - uhv - sen-ter] | adjective (masculine-of-center people) Used to describe people who feel, and often present, as masculine but may not identify as a man.
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Polygender [pol-ee-jender] | adjective (polygender people) Someone who has more than one gender and either experiences all of their genders at once or is moving between genders at any given time.
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"&aposSenseless&apos has become a trite adjective to describe these tragedies, but what IS senseless is the misguided notion that any society with more guns is a safer society," Dr. Hsieh wrote.
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For me to be an effective matchmaker, I need to be able to understand how my client defines each and every adjective he uses to describe the woman he wants to marry.
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After months of witnessing so much anxiety over a harmless three-letter adjective, it's become clear that fat — not just the word, but fatness itself — is apparently so horrible it is unspeakable.
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In the end, we get to call the shots on our own looks and put on pieces that make us feel strong and powerful and any other adjective we'd like to be.
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"There's Japanese, Chinese, European—and everything is mixed, because it's a super-arrogant menu," Johnny, a self-taught cook, warns patrons with a grin, though "ambitious" is perhaps a more apt adjective.
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And it's true that there is a very cultural influence on that sort of yearning, depressive "Moscow"-ing out the window (there must be one German adjective that describes this exact feeling).
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"Super" (from the same word in Latin, meaning above, over or beyond) has been around as an adjective and noun since the mid-19th century and as a prefix long before that.
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It's a reviewer's commonplace to praise a writer's prose as hallucinogenic, but in Dillard's case, the adjective fits: Her essays have been known to induce in their users visions of dreamlike intensity.
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"When I moved in, Brooklyn wasn't an adjective and e-commerce didn't really exist," she says of her store's first location, just across the street from her current one at 123 Ludlow.
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Derived from the Old Irish adjective slán (which means "safe"), sláinte literally translates as "health" and is used as a stand-in for the more time-consuming "I drink to your health!"
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An accomplished bluegrass fiddler, she knew that hearing loss is a common side effect of some chemicals — so common that drugs harmful to the ear have acquired an adjective: they are ototoxic.
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While he never made it to the Supreme Court, his name would become a common noun, adjective and verb for nominees who are targeted by groups to discredit or demean their records.
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His critics fear that the style, improvised and inflammatory, might create substantive havoc, particularly in the realm of foreign policy, where the smallest gradations of adjective or adverb can affect real lives.
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Persico shoots chefs and their food around the globe, and his photos are bright, evocative, [insert third positive adjective] and—like any food photo worth its salt—will make you very hungry.
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Noah Feldman, a law professor at Harvard, told the House Judiciary Committee that the adjective "high" refers not to the gravity of the offence, but to the status of the president's office.
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There is often some implication of unscrupulousness in descriptions of female candidates as "ambitious" — an adjective that could apply to any person running for president but is rarely used to disparage men.
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There are death metal bands that write about killing women, and there are death metal bands that write about aliens, but here's the rub: the bands that write about aliens receive another adjective.
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"We've got a huge interest in making sure that Egypt doesn't go down into a more difficult status than it is," said Kerry, who repeatedly used the adjective "complex" to describe the situation.
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Dr Idan, a psycholinguist, knew from previous work that the use of an adjective instead of a noun in a sentence ("Jewish" rather than "Jew", for example) can shape both judgment and behaviour.
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"The adjective toxic is defined as 'poisonous' and first appeared in English in the mid-seventeenth century from the medieval Latin toxicus, meaning 'poisoned' or 'imbued with poison'," reads the Oxford Dictionary's definition.
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Mr. Dylan has been recognized by anyone who cares about words — not to mention music — since the 1960s, when he almost immediately earned an adjective as his own literary and musical school: Dylanesque.
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The resurgence inspired Kerr to invoke the words of Liverpool's Jürgen Klopp, who a day before had described his players as "giants," modifying that description with an adjective that is unsuitable for publication.
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Whatever fleeting pleasure you have in someone applying a laudatory adjective to your book is totally washed away by the unpleasantness of remembering the negative things for the rest of your life verbatim.
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The official government order for commemorations referred only to "the revolution of 1917 in Russia" — not Great, or Russian, or Socialist, or October, or any other adjective that would imply glorification or disparagement.
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Word of the Day noun: a person who speaks more than one language adjective: having a command of or composed in many languages _________ The word polyglot has appeared in 36 articles on nytimes.
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Seeing her again at long last was an absolute gag, and she was exactly as Vanjie (it's an adjective, a verb, a noun, a conjunction, a lifestyle) as we remembered her to be.
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Gender non-conforming [jen-der nohn-kuh n-fawrm-ing] | adjective (gender non-conforming people) A term used to describe some people whose gender expression is different from conventional expectations of masculinity and femininity.
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Clinton (and himself) as high-minded advocates of "inclusive" policies — an adjective that he repeated several times — rather than exclusionary proposals like Mr. Trump's call for temporarily banning Muslims for entering the United States.
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"According to Oxford Dictionaries, post-truth is an adjective that means "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.
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His unwillingness to do so in Helsinki is why critics in Washington saw him as weak -- an adjective that is always damaging to a President, especially when it is manifested during an appearance overseas.
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Buster Keaton, whose given name was Joseph and whose nickname was, according to one legend, bestowed on him by Harry Houdini, is one of the few film artists to achieve immortality as an adjective.
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But this year, that meant calling it the iPhone XS. Never mind that XS is the abbreviation for extra small — not an adjective Apple wants for its $1,000 phones — but say "XS" out loud.
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"Infinite Football" (on May 2212), a new bit of drollery from the Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu ("Police, Adjective"), focuses on Laurentiu Ginghina, a real-life bureaucrat who wants to rewrite the rules of soccer.
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In this formulation, "genre" is a pejorative adjective for any kind of mediocre writing rather than a designation for nonliterary styles, and can easily refer to mediocre fiction that happens to carry "literary" markers.
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Bicurious [bahy-kyoo r-ee-uh s] | adjective (bicurious people) Similar to questioning, bicurious people are exploring whether or not they're attracted to people of the same gender as well as people of different genders.
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During the 21929s and 20170s, the artist's work became so well-known that "Rube Goldberg" became a dictionary-approved adjective to describe a machine or invention that is extremely clever and assuming, but unnecessarily complicated.
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As a former police officer, chief and director of public safety working in our democracy, were I asked to choose a single adjective, I would call the officer's behavior and the following that ensued unthinkable.
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The product description says it "adds a glamorous note to your festive decorations," and while "glamorous" is about the last adjective that comes to mind, this frankfurter will certainly add some character to your room.
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Roll the word around in your mouth until you can comfortably accept that fat is a truthful adjective devoid of intention, a movement popularized by fat acceptance activists in an effort to reclaim the word.
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"Apocalyptic" is an adjective frequently applied to the album, probably because half the lyrics seem to directly reference the end of the world, but it's also concerned with much smaller acts of death and dying.
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More recently, when I called an HBO source to get their perspective on AT&T's plans for WarnerMedia, that person described the plans as "inchoate," an adjective that has rattled in my head ever since.
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It is an acceptable adverbial use of the adjective "big," according to Merriam-Webster, a dictionary company that has embraced social media and has tweeted witty observations about the two candidates' elocutions throughout the campaign.
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A 2008 study, for example, found that sex considered "adequate" – objectively the worst adjective to describe sex ever – lasts anything from three to seven minutes, while seven to 57 minutes was considered a "desirable" duration.
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Tracy Flick, 'Election' You know you've created a perfect character when, over time, their name can be used as an adjective and is worn as a badge of honor among women with laser-focused ambition.
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Her name became an adjective, Beattie-esque, a way of describing quiet, astringent fiction that showed white baby boomers (Beattie's closest peers) emerging, dazed, from the 1960s and trying to make sense of their lives.
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The phrase "Rosenstein Defense" reminds me of the new rule that anybody who goes to work for Trump should expect that they will indeed become famous, but probably as an adjective in an unflattering headline.
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Although the adjective is curiously absent from other headings in Facebook's already sprawling literature about the OB. Including the newly released charter which specifies the board's authority, scope and procedures, and was published this week.
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Mark Hutchinson's splendid and sensitive translation sets the mood; he has a talent for the off-kilter adjective that first startles us and later explains so much: a governess's "valiant hands," a "scantily lit" salon.
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Word of the Day noun: a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention noun: an official document granting a right or privilege verb: obtain a patent for verb: grant rights to; grant a patent for verb: make open to sight or notice adjective: (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage adjective: clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment _________ The word patent has appeared in 333 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Dec.
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