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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.

Stuart King, Head Reviewer at London Box Office

@stuartreviews-lbo.bsky.social

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
CHURCHILL’S URINAL at King’s Head, Angel.

Rosie Holt and the team deliver an entertaining and pungent drizzle over the current grandstanding and pomposity prevalent in British political life.

www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/news/post/re...

@kevinwilsonpr.bsky.social @londonboxoffice.bsky.social

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Prevaricate

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

Something Awful Leper's Colony

@leperscolony.pileofgarbage.net

PROBATION (12 hours)

Discendo Vox

Strawmanning. The poster you quoted did not prevaricate or say "nuh uh", they simply asked you to be more specific about your previous post.

Leper's Colony Entry

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Misanthrope

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

The Clown Town

@clowntown6969.bsky.social

Listen I get DeviantArt is easy to make fun of but maybe if you try and support artists on there and foster artists who enjoy a gallery site that isn't artstation or Instagram you can create community that you enjoy and reciprocates that effort or you can be some nihilistic misanthrope and mope idc

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Euphemism

A mild or indirect word or expression that is sustituted for one that is considered to be more harsh or blunt.

Goddess Zöe Annelise

@callmezoe.com

LOL I am gonna be teaching a younger fellow trans/queer woman how to drive in a few weeks for extra cash. We're gonna smash that stereotype! Wish us luck - I have only taught someone who could already drive how to drive stick (not a euphemism).

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Juncture

1. a particular point or event in time; point (in time); moment (in time); 2. a place where things join

@secureyourstack.bsky.social

Building Your Foundation: Core Finance SOPs for Small Business

Every successful small business reaches a critical juncture where informal financial processes begin to create more p...

https://secureyourstack.1450enterprises.com/building-your-foundation-core-finance-sops-for-small-business/

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Opaque

not able to be seen through; not transparent; impenetrable to light hard to understand; not clear

Rachel

@vignettes.bsky.social

At low tide the drowned god surfaced but no longer answered prayers.

Priests fed it receipts, teeth and soft fruit while blind clerks deep inside the opaque system stamped wet documents smelling faintly of salt.

#writingprompts
Drowned god #WeirdMicro
Opaque system #PoisonPen

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Beguile

charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way

𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 ... ♫

@odetothemilano.bsky.social

my wings are humming, honey, stay a little while
with just a pinch, you'll be delighted and beguiled
i'm not your baby doll, but i can make you smile
no nectar's sweeter, sweetie; i'll drive you wild

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Empirical

based on or concerned with observation and experience (rather than just a theory); experiential; hands-on

Flux Theatre Ensemble

@fluxtheatre.bsky.social

"In modern religious discourse—particularly within high-control environments like Evangelical Christianity—there is an obsessive focus on 'Truth' as a singular, exclusive, empirical monument. It’s an approach rooted entirely in logos...

READ: jasontseng.substack.com/p/mythos-mid...

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Dissonance

1. a state of disagreement or conflict 2. a harsh, discordant combination of sounds; a lack of harmony among musical notes Note: Cognitive dissonance is defined as "the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change."

iosef ✊

@iosef.bsky.social

sadly due dissonance believes the people voted massie out. no the f did not! the guy is a libertarian with communist fans. a man of principle. so they fixed the election.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r167sHyh4J0?v=r167...

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Anachronism

A thing belonging to a period other than that in which it exists (especially something that is conspicuously old-fashioned)

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@stel.energy

its a charming bit of anachronism the way i buy a train ticket on an app and then a conductor has to come scan it by hand. i love it honestly i love tiny fragments of human interaction

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