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Curmudgeon: [13] An ill-tempered, grumpy or surly old man (although the term is most often applied to old men, it can be used more broadly: for example, in the 2008 film Marley & Me, John Grogan, a forty-year-old man, is called a curmudgeon for complaining about the prevalence of aesthetically ugly high-rise condos popping up in his city).
In Wales, the changeling child (plentyn cael (sing.), plant cael (pl.)) initially resembles the human child for which it has been substituted, but gradually grows uglier in appearance and behaviour: ill-featured, malformed, ill-tempered, given to screaming and biting. It may be of less than usual intelligence but may equally well be ...
The shrew – an unpleasant, ill-tempered woman characterised by scolding, nagging, and aggression [1] – is a comedic, stock character in literature and folklore, both Western and Eastern. [2] The theme is illustrated in Shakespeare 's play The Taming of the Shrew .
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Grumpy, irritable, ill-tempered [16] Tinklebobs: Icicles [16] Torrididdle: A state of bewilderment or confusion [16] Toyear: This year; as in today, tomorrow etc. [16] Trapes, Trapesèn A woman who tramps about bodly Tree-tears Leaves Tuen Tune Tup A ram; (of a ram) to copulate with a ewe Twanketen: Sad, melancholic [16] T'wards Towards 'twere ...
On the other hand, Kant qualifies temperance by warning it could increase the effectiveness of evil acts by the ill-intentioned: "For without the principles of a good will, [temperance] may become extremely bad, and the coolness of a villain not only makes him far more dangerous, but also directly makes him more abominable in our eyes than he ...
A warning has been issued to travelers over the spread of three diseases, including the Marburg virus. It’s a close cousin of Ebola that’s been dubbed the “bleeding eye” virus due to one ...
A Rhode Island man has admitted to using gasoline to set several fires around the exterior of a predominantly Black church earlier this year, according to a federal plea agreement.