adj. shoddy
(a) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue
(b) marked by stubborn resistance to authority
(c) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
(d) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship; keeled
adj. sinewy
(a) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; muscular; powerful
(b) behaving wildly; abundant
(c) used of a person's appearance or behavior; imposing
(d) unable to meet or discharge financial obligations
adj. rapacious
(a) spreading or spread throughout; permeative
(b) rising again as to new life and vigor
(c) devouring or craving food in great quantities; ravening; ravenous; voracious; wolfish
(d) notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex; saw-toothed; toothed; notched
adj. asinine
(a) of great force or power
(b) worthy of high praise; praiseworthy
(c) having made preparations; prepared
(d) devoid of intelligence; inane; mindless; vacuous
adj. plausible
(a) elastic; lively; springy
(b) vigorous and animated
(c) given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments
(d) functioning in a supporting capacity; supplemental; supplementary |
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adj. secular
(a) acceptable to the taste or mind
(b) characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy
(c) swollen; filled with air or gas; expanded
(d) preventing movement; impeding; obstructive
adj. obtrusive
(a) being or made softer or less loud or clear; softened
(b) not converted into ions; unionized; unionised; nonionic
(c) without partiality
(d) sticking out
adj. malicious
(a) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; archaic
(b) having the nature of or resulting from malice
(c) aimlessly drifting; aimless; directionless; rudderless; undirected
(d) showing a brooding ill humor; glum; moody; morose; saturnine; sour; sullen
adj. crinkled
(a) spreading or spread throughout; permeative; pervasive
(b) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves; rippled; wavy; wavelike
(c) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; meddling; busy; busybodied
(d) tracing descent from either the paternal or the maternal line only
adj. succinct
(a) easily irritated or annoyed; fractious; irritable; nettlesome; peevish
(b) extremely evil or cruel; diabolical; fiendish; hellish; infernal; satanic; unholy
(c) briefly giving the gist of something; summary
(d) able to absorb liquid (not repellent) |
