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Recalcitrant

being obstinate; uncooperative (especially someone of authority or discipline)

Dirt Dork.

Dirt Dork.

@dirtdork.bsky.social

This man is a member of the DSA chapter that just got someone elected the mayor of the largest city in the United States. This whole little piece reads more like an email about a recalcitrant member of a reading group.

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Monotony

a lack of variety; tedious; boring; very routine; tedium; boredom; repetitiveness; sameness of pitch or tone in a sound

Nathan Grayson

Nathan Grayson

@nathangrayson.bsky.social

monotony implies the existence of stereotony

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Ardor

passion; great feeling (usually positive); great warmth; eagerness; enthusiasm

Джураев

Джураев

@vyacho.bsky.social

My ardor for aircraft is balanced out by my unease towards watercraft. Which might be ironic, considering how many years of my life I spent living right next to the sea, but still.

I'll never understand people who go on cruise ships, at the very least.

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Discerning

showing good judgment; discriminating; judicious; tasteful

marissabot walmart dog

marissabot walmart dog

@marissabot.bsky.social

your posts are not worthy of the walmart dog app. they have been screened and deemed unfit for consumption by our discerning members

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Proclivity

a tendency to choose to do something (regularly usually)

Dog Grrrl (HOT TOPIC PRIN$EZZ✨)

Dog Grrrl (HOT TOPIC PRIN$EZZ✨)

@tomokokuroki.bsky.social

Disney movies really just be coming out now 😭 I can't tell if Disney is no longer as relevant or my proclivity to living under a rock has become more powerful

There was a Moana 2? ☠️

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Pulchritude

beauty; fairness; loveliness; good-looking; attractiveness (used in literary terms)

From the Year of our Lore 1973 {so put on your old fur coat}

From the Year of our Lore 1973 {so put on your old fur coat}

@peacocksyndicalist.bsky.social

pulchritudinous and multitudinous...

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Surly

rude or bad tempered (less strong that irascible); moody; sulky used to describe someone who is purposefully ignoring or being a bit rude

Lazer Guided

Lazer Guided

@lazerguided.bsky.social

Please stop naming storms after surly builders. Strom Dave isn’t gonna cut it.

Try naming them after right scary wrong ‘uns. Storm Harold Shipman. Storm Jimmy Savile. Storm Trump.

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Pungent

1. a really bad smell or nasty taste; caustic; bitting; tart; sharp 2. can also be used when describing a comment that is sarcastic, scathing, sharp or mean comment.

3 dogs in a trenchcoat

3 dogs in a trenchcoat

@potionsys.bsky.social

wario is not avoiding the five pungent roots at all. his ass is not escaping the cycle of samsara

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Prevaricate

speak or act in an evasive way (with the intent to deceive); to lie

AngelSil

AngelSil

@angelsil.bsky.social

I see my decision to drink wine instead of watch Trump slur and prevaricate was the right one.

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Misanthrope

a person who dislikes other people and avoids other people; hater of mankind

Lizstar

Lizstar

@lizstar.bsky.social

Its kind of weird that I don't have a single maternal bone in my body

My misanthrope dad is sitting with my baby nephew on his knee, bouncing him and going "agoogoogoo~" and I think I have not intentionally touched these children once since they got here, I find them real gross lol

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