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soporific

As pedantic prose, it has potent soporific properties.

—p.277 by Czesław Miłosz
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feuilleton

writing his feuilletons for The Universal Weekly

—p.154 by Czesław Miłosz
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vituperation

commenting vituperatively on the imitators of modernity in other languages who are totally unaware of what motivated the French

—p.57 by Czesław Miłosz
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calumny

Soon after becoming Archbishop of Los Angeles, he parroted the calumnies against academic freedom at American Catholic universities being spread by Cardinal Ratzinger

—p.306 New Confessions (289) by Mike Davis
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nostrum

as drug treatment is filed in the same bottom drawer of forgotten liberal nostrums as youth employment or gang counseling

—p.286 The Hammer and the Rock (237) by Mike Davis
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