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A Dutch profanity sometimes appearing in English as "downy" and generally considered derogatory [32] Dumb: Especially when preceded by "the" [17] [22] Dummy and dumb Used of people with mental disabilities, or more generally people perceived as stupid or ignorant.
Infamy is a term of art in Roman Catholic canon law. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913, infamy in the canonical sense is defined as the privation or lessening of one's good name as the result of the bad rating he has, even among prudent men. It constitutes an irregularity, a canonical impediment that prevents one being ordained or ...
Infamy, a 2023 Polish drama television series; Infamy, a 2008 EP by Heaven Below "Infamy", a song by The Rolling Stones from their 2005 album A Bigger Bang; Infamy, a measure of a player's skill in the game War Commander "Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me", spoken by Kenneth Williams in the British comedy film Carry On Cleo (1964)
Following the announcement of their existence in March 2015, [6] Infamous Quests launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the completion of the two titles. [12] On May 3, 2015, the campaign succeeded, bringing the team $30,944 plus additional funds via PayPal, allowing them to announce a third game, Order of the Thorne: Fortress of Fire as well as the two promised by the initial campaign pitch ...
The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap
antonym: a word with the exact opposite meaning of another word; an antithesis: often shown in opposite word pairs such as "high" and "low" (compare with "synonym") apronym : a word which, as an acronym or backronym, has a meaning related to the meaning of the words constituting the acronym or backronym; such as PLATO for "Programmed Logic for ...
[2] "A house divided against itself cannot stand.", opening lines of Abraham Lincoln's famous 1858 "A House Divided" speech, addressing the division between slave states and free states in the United States at the time. "Four score and seven years ago...", opening of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. [3]
An apocryphal story relates how Charles II (or sometimes Queen Anne) described St Paul's Cathedral (using contemporaneous English) as "awful, pompous, and artificial", with the meaning (rendered in modern English) of "awe-inspiring, majestic, and ingeniously designed." [8]