That blue dress really complements your eyes. That remark is, of course, a compliment, which That red dress really complements your eyes probably isnt.
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ignoble
In front of a word beginning with n, the prefix ig- means ‘not’, so ignoble is simply ‘not noble
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combination of distorted, distasteful and bizarre:
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gratuitous
Unnecessary, uncalled for, as in a gratuitous insult o
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flagrant
From the Latin for burning, this means very much the same as BLATANT
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those who are inconstant in their affections
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fastidious
This means picky, critical, hard to please an
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bit too easy and thus having little value: a facile victory is more or less a walkover;
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excoriate
Even harsher than DENOUNCE, this means literally to take the skin off, so metaphorically to flay someone alive, to criticize very severely. A critic might, for example, write an excoriating review of a film or play he
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seemed not to realize the enormity of his crime’ means he didn’t acknowledge he had done something dreadful,