n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
By misdemeanors he essayed to climb
Into the aristocracy of crime.
O, woe was him! — with manner chill and grand
"Captains of industry" refused his hand,
"Kings of finance" denied him recognition
And "railway magnates" jeered his low condition.
He robbed a bank to make himself respected.
They still rebuffed him, for he was detected.
—S.V. Hanipur
(also: crime)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
The negligible factor in problems of legislation.
(also: european union)
(n.) that wire chicken you sometimes see perched on top of buildings, pointing in the direction of the wind.
also called a weathercock. under no circumstances should you compress both of these words together to create a vaneycock.
also called a weathercock. under no circumstances should you compress both of these words together to create a vaneycock.
(n.) a special notice intended to take advantage of those who lack free will
One who submits to death rather than do something more disagreeable to him. The distinction between martyrdom and mere assassination is not always clear to the victim.
(also: victim)
(also: the devils dictionary)
(also: victim)
(also: the devils dictionary)
Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. It may be graphic, mimetic or merely rident. Shaftesbury is quoted as having pronounced it the test of truth — a ridiculous assertion, for many a solemn fallacy has undergone centuries of ridicule with no abatement of its popular acceptance. What, for example, has been more valorously derided than the doctrine of Infant Respectability?
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
Advanced form of Karen. Karen police behavior of others and would call on managers and police but an Amber Heard is spiteful and would staged lies to sabotage their victims and would magically have friends who believe her regardless of evidence. She has the charms and use it deceptively
In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to know it is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(n.) the academic discipline of measuring time, usually making clocks.
... you thought it was something else. Admit it.
... you thought it was something else. Admit it.
A lost city of canals. The mythological birthplace of all swimming rhinos.
Mediocre actress and controversial public figure
not exhibiting the cheating, hypercompetitiveness, or general lack of integrity expected of athletes
seafaring gentlemen of the nordic persuasion circa the ninth and tenth centuries, who made their living pillaging and raiding and reaving and so on
today remembered either as savage unwashed brutes or as admirable noble savage types (mostly by fans of heavy metal)
today remembered either as savage unwashed brutes or as admirable noble savage types (mostly by fans of heavy metal)
definitive
(also: guide)
(also: guide)
(n.) licensed grave robbery, carried out by the more rugged and outdoorsy variety of academic. But not quite as rugged or outdoorsy as you're thinking.
A competition in which, two teams of men share balls in an attempt to stuff them into more holes than the opposing team.
(also: football)
A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
sign-up or face the consequences!
“"observers" must obey the call.”
join