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

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louche

In his splendid, louche letters, you can always hear Bogarde’s sly, insinuating voice.

—p.205 Indecency, Gross or Mass Market? (198) by David Thomson
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scabrous

Perhaps that’s why the scabrous movie had to ease back, turn routine, go dull, whatever you want to say.

—p.159 “The Cat’s in the Bag, the Bag’s in the River” (157) by David Thomson
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blowsy

the part was made for her: a blowsy, uneducated, untidy, overweight wife being two-timed

—p.131 Tracy and Hepburn (122) by David Thomson
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caviling

Are we going to cavil at John Ford or Sam Peckinpah for hiring and rehiring their buddies—their collaborative family—over the years?

—p.67 Hideaway (58) by David Thomson
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dudgeon

Signorina Luisetta does not laugh: she looks at me, frowning, to see whether I am serious: then goes away in a dudgeon

—p.198 Shoot! (1) by Luigi Pirandello
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