Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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mufti

The ensemble was both mufti and dishabille, conveying that the wearer was only really dressed when on the field, in full football or lacrosse regalia.

—p.67 Everybody Knows (63) by Elizabeth Schambelan
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brio

Both boys were rapists, not just the one who had the brio to announce it so insouciantly.

—p.67 Everybody Knows (63) by Elizabeth Schambelan
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prurient

inquiring into her sex life with such grotesque prurience that it led to the strengthening of New Jersey’s rape shield laws

—p.65 Everybody Knows (63) by Elizabeth Schambelan
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desultory

Instead, they threw parties that followed a rigid script: first the guys would watch porn while the girls chatted among themselves. When the groups did interact, the guys would make a desultory show of chivalrous ardor, rolling their eyes at one another when they could without the girls noticing

—p.64 Everybody Knows (63) by Elizabeth Schambelan
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carillon

There was a carillon, the sound of myriad glass bells pealing under the roof

stupidly thought it meant like crow lol

—p.53 Rededication (39) missing author
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