faulty
/ˈfɔɫti/
adjectivecontaining a defect or flaw that prevents proper functioning or operation
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1. Otherwise, the poll will be faulty.
2. On board the diesel engines were faulty.
3. - Your radar is faulty.
4. Your radar is faulty.
5. So the group selection explanation is logically faulty.
fatuous
/ˈfætʃəwəs/
adjectiveextremely silly or stupid
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1. Fuego fatuous, we cast double shadows in pantone blacks.
2. Well, that's what Sternberg calls "fatuous love."
3. That's fatuous love.
faux pas
/fˌoʊ pˈɑː/
nouna socially awkward or tactless act
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1. None of these things are real faux pas!
2. But yeah, faux pas is a great word.
3. Talk about fashion faux pas!
4. But we made a major faux pas.
5. Because people, society in general love when other people own their faux pas.
Anglo-Saxon
/ˈæŋɡloʊsˈæksən/
adjectiveof or relating to the Anglo-Saxons or their language
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1. I'm a traditional Anglo-Saxon.
2. Theoden comes from Anglo-Saxon.
3. Anglo-Saxon England combines a Benedictine structure with some of this inheritance of Irish wandering.
4. Scores of Anglo-Saxon troops were cut down in these small-scale tricks.
5. Use Anglo-Saxon words, not Latin-based.
misdeed
/ˈmɪsˈdid/
nounan illegal or evil action
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1. History is littered with the misdeeds of conmen who pulled the wool over the public’s eyes and made a killing.
2. Was it bloody vengeance for past misdeeds in the pursuit of justice?
3. Years ago, the US government swept its radioactive misdeeds, quite literally, under the rug.
4. And some of them had to do with huge misdeeds and missteps of the government itself.
5. To feast on our misdeeds!
misdemeanor
/ˌmɪsdəˈminɝ/
nounan action that is considered wrong or unacceptable yet not very serious
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1. 80% of American criminal dockets are misdemeanors.
2. Just almost 3/4, 74%, were misdemeanors.
3. Misdemeanor is breaking the rules without serious implications.
4. The American criminal law, a misdemeanor is a crime punishable by less than one year in jail.
5. Misdemeanors are crimes like petty theft, possession of marijuana, disorderly conduct and public intoxication.
mishap
/ˈmɪsˌhæp/
nouna minor accident that has no serious consequences
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1. Epiglottis flap stops a tube mishap.
2. Got a major mishap.
3. Until the White House administration’s claims of success create another mishap.
4. Sometimes food mishaps happen!
5. We had a mishap right there.
to misinterpret
/mɪsɪnˈtɝpɹət/
verbinterpret falsely
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1. Sometime people misinterpret my flirtiness.
2. Tyrion purposely misinterpreted his question.
3. You guys totally misinterpreted it.
4. Or at least people misinterpret your passion for bossiness.
5. Men often misinterpret friendliness for sexual interest.
to mislay
/mɪslˈeɪ/
verbplace (something) where one cannot find it again
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1. Maybe we are not alone in the universe, but for sure we are very lonely, being mislaid in a sea of empty space.
visage
/ˈvɪzədʒ/
nouna person's face or facial expression, especially when considered as an aspect of their overall appearance or character
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1. Can you see that my face has an underwhelming visage?
2. But one look at that robust beard and stately visage tells us, this is a man you could comfortably call "daddy."
3. And here, we see Jerry, in earlier days, beneath the visage of Marx and Engels, spreading those fruits in China.
4. All of it adorned with the hideous monster's visage!
5. I can already tell it's doing wonders for my visage.
visionary
/ˈvɪʒəˌnɛɹi/
adjectivehaving innovative and imaginative ideas or dreams that may not always be realistic or feasible
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1. So now, he had two companies with visionary ideas but a thirst for funding.
2. The Struggle series for me really solidifies Lawrence's visionary artistic impact.
3. So it's visionary.
4. I'm a visionary.
5. All great leaders have been great visionaries.
vista
/ˈvɪstə/
nounthe visual percept of a region
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1. Look at that vista.
2. Look at that vista!
3. Windows of Vista machines are still running.
4. Here you've got your Haussmannian vista.
5. But beneath the mountain vistas the city has a tragic underbelly.
to saturate
/ˈsætʃɝˌeɪt/
verbto combine so much of a chemical compound with a chemical solution that the solution cannot retain, absorb, or dissolve anymore of that compound
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1. Plastic has saturated our environment.
2. The ink is really saturated.
3. And just, saturate that whole area.
4. And what foods have saturated fats? -
5. - Saturated.
saturnine
/sˈæɾɚnˌaɪn/
adjectiveshowing a brooding ill humor
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1. Some of us are lunatics, others are mercurial, others are saturnine.
2. He was a reticent, saturnine man then, though his increasing years have now somewhat relaxed the austerity of his disposition, and I believe that nothing but his memory of the sad event for which I am now on trial prevents him from manifesting a genuine hilarity.
3. Two years ago here at TED I reported that we had discovered at Saturn, with the Cassini Spacecraft, an anomalously warm and geologically active region at the southern tip of the small Saturnine moon Enceladus, seen here.
4. But in the meantime I invite you to imagine the day when we might journey to the Saturnine system, and visit the Enceladus interplanetary geyser park, just because we can.
mendacious
/mɛnˈdeɪʃəs/
adjectivereferring to something that is false or someone that has lied
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1. And to invoke it as it has been invoked now, whether lawfully or not, but to use that word and that concept with that resonance in a trivial and actually mendacious way, is the very heart of evil and the very heart of corruption.
2. We are invoking Lincoln to justify the acts of that mendacious, self-indulgent, ignorant man.
3. Or do you find them equally corrupt, trivial, and mendacious and dishonest?
4. That's a health issue it's just mendacious it's a deep seated lie who a few benefit from.
mendacity
/mɛnˈdæsɪti/
nounthe tendency to be untruthful
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1. That's the lady you're gonna reap what your soul you can only go for so long and living a lie, seeing if you if in your personal life you addicted toe lies, sooner or later, that mendacity is gonna generate a backlash in the nation.
2. You tied the lies and mendacity, you're gonna get a backlash, and it's gonna be ugly.
3. One way of reading the character, Dalila, is to insist that her contradictions point out, emphasize, her mendacity.
4. Or if I can put the case for them slightly anachronistically, these are two sons of the upper bourgeois who feel degraded by the mendacity and hypocrisy of the world they see around them.
mendicant
/mˈɛndɪkənt/
adjectivepracticing beggary
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1. He went on a mendicant's journey to India in this point.
2. Months' long mendicant's journey to India, came back, started to study seriously at the Los Altos Zen Center, and began to spend an increasing amount of time with the All One commune upstate.
3. Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic.
4. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen, but society has chosen for us.
5. They saw him slouch for’ard after breakfast, and, like a mendicant, with outstretched palm, accost a sailor.
mendaciously
/mɛndˈeɪʃəsli/
adverbin a mendacious and untruthful manner
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