nacre
(en)
(noun) mother-of-pearl
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She has a thermal look. Nacreous skin, plumped with oysters.
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She has a thermal look. Nacreous skin, plumped with oysters.
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saturnine
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(adjective) born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn / (adjective) cold and steady in mood; slow to act or change / (adjective) of a gloomy or surly disposition / (adjective) having a sardonic aspect
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And the way he was always serious with her, not mocking and saturnine, even when they disagreed about art.
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And the way he was always serious with her, not mocking and saturnine, even when they disagreed about art.
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sop
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(noun) a piece of food dipped or steeped in a liquid / (noun) a conciliatory or propitiatory bribe, gift, or gesture / (verb) to steep or dip in or as if in liquid / (verb) to wet thoroughly; soak / (verb) mop / (abbreviation) standard operating procedure; standing operating procedure
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But Harald's view of life is too blackly logical to give them that sop.
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But Harald's view of life is too blackly logical to give them that sop.
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frowsty
(en)
(adjective) musty / (adjective) frowsy / having a stale, warm, and stuffy atmosphere.
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she felt a kind of sympathy for the big frowsty girl
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she felt a kind of sympathy for the big frowsty girl
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chthonic
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(adjective) of or relating to the underworld; infernal
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meliorism
(en)
(noun) the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment
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she had "reacted" [...] against her mother's measured and stately meliorism and bridled at the very notion of changing people
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she had "reacted" [...] against her mother's measured and stately meliorism and bridled at the very notion of changing people
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otiose
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(adjective) producing no useful result; futile / (adjective) being at leisure; idle / (adjective) lacking use or effect; functionless
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sybaritic
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fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure; self-indulgent (derives from the Greek city Sybaris)
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Freddy goes all to pieces if he gets served warmed-over coffee in a tarnished pot--he's a sybarite
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Freddy goes all to pieces if he gets served warmed-over coffee in a tarnished pot--he's a sybarite
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