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Sully

to dirty; to make impure; to soil; to stain

madeline bot 🎀

@femadelinebot.bsky.social

Pathetic! I’m sullying the good name of the Four Winds. You must let me redeem myself.

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Attenuate

To weaken; make less strong; to reduce in force, intensity, quantity or even value; to make thin or slender

squeevey

@squeevey.bsky.social

There is some infrasound from the construction happening on our street that is causing a resonance with our cast iron tub.

Annoyed at the resonance rattle, but also really respect that it is the origin of attenuation. Use a device to capture a resonance to shift it into human recognizable form.

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Delineate

1. to describe something very exactly 2. to trace the outline of; to sketch or trace an outline; to represent something in pictures or pictorially

BehavEcolPapers

@behavecolpapers.bsky.social

The colors of images preferred by individual voxels can be used to delineate functionally distinct visually responsive #brain areas @PNAS.org

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Meretricious

apparently attractive but in reality not having any value; tawdry (can be used on both physical and non-physical things)

Lorgin

@legitmrlorgin.bsky.social

Always found the term "multifandom" to be kinda stupid & meretricious tbh. I mean, isn't just about everyone bound to like more than just one thing in entertainment?

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Ossify

Turn into bone or bony tissue; to become riggid or inflexible in habits or attitudes

emet-selch 🍁

@chaimagicks.bsky.social

What I find fascinating about racism against Indians is how it persists all sorts of colonial humiliation rituals left or right. The right will say we worship demons, but the left will consistently bring up “caste system“, for example, while ignoring the role of the British in ossifying it.

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Gambol

to run or jump about in a playful way (implies a general joy); frolic; skip; dance; leap; prance;

MommyUnit of Beach Therapy, Wine & Super Bowl Wins

@mommyunit.bsky.social

Have a night, Luke, you gamboling beauty, you.

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Ambivalence

having mixed feelings; contradictory ideas about something or someone; doubt; hesitancy; unsureness; uncertainty

Chris Tina

@christinahell.bsky.social

En #Belgique, la troublante ambivalence du premier ministre à l’égard de la #Russie (En multipliant les prises de position peu lisibles sur le soutien que l’ #Unioneuropéenne devrait apporter à l’ #Ukraine, #BartDeWever s’attire les critiques.

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