Vain, conceited, as "a pretty girl." Tiresome, as "a pretty picture."
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

A form of penance practiced by the medieval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.

(also: god)

(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

v. (from videogames) to take a lot of damage from the enemy team and dole it back out
n. to be the one who does so

(n.) a swenka horse

A coalition of nations in a hope to bring a war torn land together

the process by which a new human being is brought into the world. traditionally occurs nine months after the act of coitus between a fertile male and female individual.

births are generally regarded as joyous occasions, until the oxytocin wears off and the dread sets in.

Fourth reich. a soft one
(also: decline of testosterone levels)


(also: eu)

(adjective): A word used to express insincerity or sarcasm when something is actually terrible. A go-to for office small talk and passive-aggressive compliments.

to staunchly not enjoy (a thing you once loved).

A place where ships taking shelter from storms are shattered by customs officers.
(also: ship)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) a human being between the ages of approximately 13 and 19, characterized by having reached the developmental stage during which even their parents can no longer pretend they're cute

bitter old age may be considered a sort of sequel to teen-age, being the point where a well-adjusted adult finally kills their inner child

a popular t-shirt, available at most Targets.

To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the abstemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef-eating and brandy-and-soda-guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power.

(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
(also: [enemy)
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n. The kind of political and social reformer who is more concerned to bring others down to his plane than to lift himself to theirs.

(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

The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

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"There is no art," says Shakespeare, foolish man,
"To read the mind's construction in the face."
The physiognomists his portrait scan,
And say: "How little wisdom here we trace!
He knew his face disclosed his mind and heart,
So, in his own defence, denied our art."
—Lavatar Shunk
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) how non-pretentious people say "film"

piece of the former yugoslavia, and formerly united with the czech republic

artists andy warhol and steve ditko came from slovak immigrant families, suggesting that this is mostly a place people come from rather than go to

(n.) the actions of a spy; for when military action is too indelicate and diplomacy is too delicate