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Therefore, a person or group that is generally connected with disgusting effects and seen as physically unclean may induce moral avoidance. [86] Being deemed disgusting produces a variety of cognitive effects that result in exclusion from the perceived inner group. [86]
Misanthropy may also deprive the person of most pleasures by making them miserable and friendless. [ 92 ] Another form of criticism focuses more on the theoretical level and claims that misanthropy is an inconsistent and self-contradictory position.
Lists of pejorative terms for people include: . List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names
Rather, the word usually refers to a mean, despicable, or vicious person; or any particularly difficult or frustrating situation. Conversely, it can be used positively, as a term of admiration, as in the term badass motherfucker (BAMF), meaning a fearless and confident person.
Grotesque studies, Michelangelo Since at least the 18th century (in French and German, as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.
Turns out a good number of old people die on cruises — and accidents happen — meaning that all cruise liners have a morgue on board. Suggested by u/Comfortable_Pea246 Darrin Klimek / Getty Images
What a disgusting person,” Vance wrote in a post on X in response. Speaking to reporters Thursday afternoon on an airport tarmac in Milwaukee, Vance called Beshear a “complete loser” and his ...
The prefix fi-(roughly, "immoral") and the suffix -aĉ-(roughly, "bad, inferior") are also parts of the core vocabulary with pejorative functions; they have been combined to produce words such as fiaĉulo, a thoroughly disgusting person. [7] Fek-is the Esperanto root for dung; Alos and Velkov report encountering combinations like fikfek ("fuck ...