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3752 lines
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{
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"Male":{
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"antonyms":[
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"bastard",
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"bloke",
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"buck",
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"cat",
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"chap",
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"chappie",
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"dude",
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"fella",
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"fellow",
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"galoot",
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"gent",
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"gentleman",
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"guy",
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"hombre",
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"jack",
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"joe",
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"joker",
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"lad",
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"man"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a male person : a man or a boy":[],
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": a plant having stamens but no pistils":[],
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": an individual of the sex that is typically capable of producing small, usually motile gametes (such as sperm or spermatozoa) which fertilize the eggs of a female":[],
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": characteristic of boys, men, or the male sex : exhibiting maleness":[
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"a deep male voice"
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],
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": designed for or typically used by boys or men":[
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"a male cologne",
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"male contraceptives"
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],
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": designed with a projecting part for fitting into a corresponding female part":[
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"a male hose coupling"
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],
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": engaged in or exercised by boys or men":[
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"A social code that taught women deference to male power in return for protection was upended \u2026",
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"\u2014 Jane E. Schultz"
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],
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": having a gender identity that is the opposite of female":[],
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": having a quality (such as vigor or boldness) sometimes associated with the male sex":[],
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": having or producing only stamens or staminate flowers":[
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"a male holly"
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],
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": made up of usually adult members of the male sex : consisting of males":[
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"a male choir"
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],
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": masculine sense 3a":[
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"a male rhyme"
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],
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": of, relating to, or being the sex that typically has the capacity to produce relatively small, usually motile gametes which fertilize the eggs of a female":[],
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"atoll in the Indian Ocean that is the chief island of the Maldives and contains the nation's capital population 103,693":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"There were more male than female students.",
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"Most extension cords have a male plug on one end and a female plug on the other.",
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"Noun",
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"She attended a school where there were more males than females.",
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"The male of this species assists the female in feeding the young.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"The Cincinnati jury \u2013 who like Ebens were mostly White, male and blue-collar workers \u2013 cleared Ebens of all charges. \u2014 Harmeet Kaur, CNN , 23 June 2022",
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"But is Elvis too old \u2014 not to mention too white and too male \u2014 for resurrection in 2022",
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"Based on accounts at the time, most of those who were killed by the mob were male , according to forensic scientist Phoebe Stubblefield, a member of the team that excavated the cemetery and the remains. \u2014 Ken Miller, ajc , 22 June 2022",
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"Based on accounts at the time, most of those who were killed by the mob were male , according to forensic scientist Phoebe Stubblefield, a member of the team that excavated the cemetery and the remains. \u2014 CBS News , 22 June 2022",
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"The 34 categories include album of the year; album of the year, male artist; album of the year, female artist; song of the year; collaboration of the year; top social artist; and video of the year. \u2014 Griselda Flores, Billboard , 21 June 2022",
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"Facial recognition systems are often trained on predominately white and male databases, so their findings can become biased when used on other cultures or groups. \u2014 Christine Mui, Fortune , 21 June 2022",
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"At first, the typical podcast audience skewed younger, white and slightly more male . \u2014 Conal Byrne, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
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"Boardroom shift:Corporate boards used to be mostly white and male . \u2014 Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"As further evidence of the #GentleMinions craze, the newest film was almost even in terms of gender, with 51 percent female and 49 percent male . \u2014 Pamela Mcclintock, The Hollywood Reporter , 4 July 2022",
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"Of the 53 people who died, 40 were identified as male and 13 as female, according to the Bexar County Public Information Office. \u2014 Christine Fernando, USA TODAY , 29 June 2022",
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"In a landmark 2012 analysis, The Times reported that Oscar voters were at that time 94% white and 77% male . \u2014 Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
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"Officers arrived on the scene to find an unresponsive male and three additional males suffering from injuries due to the collision. \u2014 Jordan Parker, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 June 2022",
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"This week's challenge is played in heats of one male and one female contestant per round, as players lean out of a helicopter to look down and memorize a colored pattern floating in the water below. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
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"Police described the suspect as a male in dark clothes and a hooded jacket, CBS Bay Area reports. \u2014 Alex Sundby, CBS News , 22 June 2022",
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"Lim, 21, was born male and now identifies as trans feminine. \u2014 Heather Chen, CNN , 19 June 2022",
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"In December 2021, the sanctuary reported to federal officials that one male had bled to death and another had died after attacks by others. \u2014 Janet Mcconnaughey, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Adjective"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French masle, male , adjective & noun, from Latin masculus \u2014 more at masculine":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8m\u0101l",
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"\u02c8m\u00e4-l\u0113",
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"\u02c8m\u0101(\u0259)l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"man-size",
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"man-sized",
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"manlike",
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"manly",
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"mannish",
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"masculine",
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"virile"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105718",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"geographical name",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"mal vu":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": badly regarded : disapproved of":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"m\u00e4l-v\u1d6b"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085119",
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"type":[
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"French phrase"
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]
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},
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"maladroit":{
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"antonyms":[
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"deft",
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"dexterous",
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"dextrous",
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"handy",
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"sure-handed"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": lacking adroitness : inept":[
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"The governor has been criticized for his maladroit handling of the budget crisis."
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"The governor has been criticized for his maladroit handling of the budget crisis.",
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"some maladroit steering on her part caused the bicycle to go crashing into the bushes",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Factor in a politically maladroit Afghan government and endemic corruption, and once the Taliban began to roll up government surrenders in the provinces, their offensive took on a life of its own. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 15 Aug. 2021",
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"The series is itself like a socially awkward teen-age nerd\u2014charming but maladroit , heedless, a little exhausting. \u2014 Sarah Larson, The New Yorker , 10 May 2020",
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"His own party criticizes what many call his maladroit communication on an anxiety-inducing subject. \u2014 Adam Nossiter, New York Times , 9 Dec. 2019",
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"Playwrights Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon concoct for her a suitor who\u2019s just as introverted and socially maladroit , the newly wealthy Arthur de Bourgh. \u2014 Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities , 24 Nov. 2019",
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"Equally maladroit was her debate decision to wrap herself in an unpopular policy that ended 20 years ago. \u2014 George Will, National Review , 7 July 2019",
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"Equally maladroit was her debate decision to wrap herself in an unpopular policy that ended 20 years ago. \u2014 George Will, Twin Cities , 7 July 2019",
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"Hicks bungled his hijacking of the Johnson, however, and proved maladroit at escaping, leaving a clear trail of evidence along his getaway route. \u2014 Rinker Buck, WSJ , 28 June 2019",
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"Trump may have been typically maladroit at actually executing on this policy view, but that\u2019s a side issue. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com , 12 June 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1685, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French, from Middle French, from mal- + adroit":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccma-l\u0259-\u02c8dr\u022fit"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for maladroit awkward , clumsy , maladroit , inept , gauche mean not marked by ease (as of performance, movement, or social conduct). awkward is widely applicable and may suggest unhandiness, inconvenience, lack of muscular control, embarrassment, or lack of tact. periods of awkward silence clumsy implies stiffness and heaviness and so may connote inflexibility, unwieldiness, or lack of ordinary skill. a clumsy mechanic maladroit suggests a tendency to create awkward situations. a maladroit politician inept often implies complete failure or inadequacy. a hopelessly inept defense attorney gauche implies the effects of shyness, inexperience, or ill breeding. felt gauche and unsophisticated at formal parties",
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"synonyms":[
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"awkward",
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"butterfingered",
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"cack-handed",
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"clumsy",
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"graceless",
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"ham-fisted",
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"ham-handed",
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"handless",
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"heavy-handed",
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"left-handed",
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"unhandy"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202737",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"maladroitness":{
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"antonyms":[
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"deft",
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"dexterous",
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"dextrous",
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"handy",
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"sure-handed"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": lacking adroitness : inept":[
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"The governor has been criticized for his maladroit handling of the budget crisis."
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"The governor has been criticized for his maladroit handling of the budget crisis.",
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"some maladroit steering on her part caused the bicycle to go crashing into the bushes",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Factor in a politically maladroit Afghan government and endemic corruption, and once the Taliban began to roll up government surrenders in the provinces, their offensive took on a life of its own. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 15 Aug. 2021",
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"The series is itself like a socially awkward teen-age nerd\u2014charming but maladroit , heedless, a little exhausting. \u2014 Sarah Larson, The New Yorker , 10 May 2020",
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"His own party criticizes what many call his maladroit communication on an anxiety-inducing subject. \u2014 Adam Nossiter, New York Times , 9 Dec. 2019",
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"Playwrights Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon concoct for her a suitor who\u2019s just as introverted and socially maladroit , the newly wealthy Arthur de Bourgh. \u2014 Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities , 24 Nov. 2019",
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"Equally maladroit was her debate decision to wrap herself in an unpopular policy that ended 20 years ago. \u2014 George Will, National Review , 7 July 2019",
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"Equally maladroit was her debate decision to wrap herself in an unpopular policy that ended 20 years ago. \u2014 George Will, Twin Cities , 7 July 2019",
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"Hicks bungled his hijacking of the Johnson, however, and proved maladroit at escaping, leaving a clear trail of evidence along his getaway route. \u2014 Rinker Buck, WSJ , 28 June 2019",
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"Trump may have been typically maladroit at actually executing on this policy view, but that\u2019s a side issue. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com , 12 June 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1685, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French, from Middle French, from mal- + adroit":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccma-l\u0259-\u02c8dr\u022fit"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for maladroit awkward , clumsy , maladroit , inept , gauche mean not marked by ease (as of performance, movement, or social conduct). awkward is widely applicable and may suggest unhandiness, inconvenience, lack of muscular control, embarrassment, or lack of tact. periods of awkward silence clumsy implies stiffness and heaviness and so may connote inflexibility, unwieldiness, or lack of ordinary skill. a clumsy mechanic maladroit suggests a tendency to create awkward situations. a maladroit politician inept often implies complete failure or inadequacy. a hopelessly inept defense attorney gauche implies the effects of shyness, inexperience, or ill breeding. felt gauche and unsophisticated at formal parties",
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"synonyms":[
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"awkward",
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"butterfingered",
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"cack-handed",
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"clumsy",
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"graceless",
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"ham-fisted",
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"ham-handed",
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"handless",
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"heavy-handed",
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"left-handed",
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"unhandy"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190521",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"malady":{
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"antonyms":[
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"health",
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"wellness"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a disease or disorder of the animal body":[
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"told by his physicians that he had a fatal malady",
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"\u2014 Willa Cather"
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],
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": an unwholesome or disordered condition":[
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"poverty, homelessness, and other social maladies"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"in the olden days people were always suffering from some unknown malady",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"For those investigating the mysterious malady , that\u2019s a real problem. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 4 June 2022",
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"Another way to predict which way my patient may be headed is to look at another patient with the same malady , but who is a little further along in their disease course. \u2014 Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN , 12 May 2022",
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"Not a poor choice of words but a much better nonmedical malady than what had been hanging over the event for a couple of years due to the pandemic. \u2014 Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times , 18 May 2022",
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"For No\u00e9, medical care is a sign not so much of individual ill health but of a society-wide malady \u2014of clinging to life for the sake of time rather than quality, of living more rather than living well. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 28 Apr. 2022",
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"Entwined today with Covid is the age-old mental malady called cabin fever. \u2014 The New Yorker , 4 Apr. 2022",
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"The former Auburn standout played in only one game during the 2020 season because of a back injury and missed 11 regular-season and three playoff games in the 2021 campaign with the same malady . \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 29 Mar. 2022",
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"Mental illness is a complex malady , not something to fan-theorize over. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 10 Mar. 2022",
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"Weerasethakul develops a new choreography for the dance of love, the malady of love. \u2014 The New Yorker , 10 Jan. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English maladie , from Anglo-French, from malade sick, from Latin male habitus in bad condition":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ma-l\u0259-d\u0113",
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"\u02c8mal-\u0259d-\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"affection",
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"ail",
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"ailment",
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"bug",
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"complaint",
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"complication",
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"condition",
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"disease",
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"disorder",
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"distemper",
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"distemperature",
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"fever",
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"ill",
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"illness",
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"infirmity",
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"sickness",
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"trouble"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103001",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"malapropos":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": in an inappropriate or inopportune way":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1630, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French mal \u00e0 propos":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccma-\u02ccla-pr\u0259-\u02c8p\u014d"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162750",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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]
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},
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"malarkey":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": insincere or foolish talk : bunkum":[
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"He thinks that everything politicians say is a bunch of malarkey ."
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"He thinks everything politicians say is just a bunch of malarkey .",
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"the old lady declared that everything politicians say is pure malarkey",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"That\u2019s where working with the young progressive wing of the party instead of acting like their policies are a bunch of malarkey (to borrow his catchphrase) would come in handy. \u2014 Lily Herman, Teen Vogue , 4 Mar. 2020",
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"If anything, last night reinforced our campaign's anti- malarkey stance. \u2014 NBC News , 4 Feb. 2020",
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"With the caveat that such maps are, for the most part, utter malarkey , Google Trends is back at it again for this year's Super Bowl. \u2014 Matt Bonesteel, Anchorage Daily News , 1 Feb. 2020",
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"The regulations are particularly less-than-ideal for the companies\u2014 malarkey , some might say\u2014because the city is among their largest markets. \u2014 Aarian Marshall, WIRED , 16 Aug. 2019",
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"Boat-man 2 Hitman 2\u2019s also got some release date malarkey going on. \u2014 Hayden Dingman, PCWorld , 9 Nov. 2018",
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"The people who spread malarkey also often set up fake accounts or break basic community standards. \u2014 Nicholas Thompson, WIRED , 23 May 2018",
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"Two nifty 20th-century words are malarkey (1929) and gobbledygook (1944). \u2014 Stephen Miller, WSJ , 29 May 2018",
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"Some malarkey does get thrown into the mix: since his aims are frequently carnal, Lee\u2019s mysticism can seem, even to him, like misdirection, or perhaps mood music. \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 8 May 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1923, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"origin unknown":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"m\u0259-\u02c8l\u00e4r-k\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"applesauce",
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"balderdash",
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"baloney",
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"boloney",
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"beans",
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"bilge",
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"blah",
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"blah-blah",
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"blarney",
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"blather",
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"blatherskite",
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"blither",
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"bosh",
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"bull",
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"bunk",
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"bunkum",
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"buncombe",
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"claptrap",
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"codswallop",
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"crapola",
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"crock",
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"drivel",
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"drool",
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"fiddle",
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"fiddle-faddle",
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"fiddlesticks",
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"flannel",
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"flapdoodle",
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"folderol",
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"falderal",
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"folly",
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"foolishness",
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"fudge",
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"garbage",
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"guff",
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"hogwash",
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"hokeypokey",
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"hokum",
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"hoodoo",
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"hooey",
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"horsefeathers",
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"humbug",
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"humbuggery",
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"jazz",
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"moonshine",
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"muck",
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"nerts",
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"nonsense",
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"nuts",
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"piffle",
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"poppycock",
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"punk",
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"rot",
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"rubbish",
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"senselessness",
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"silliness",
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"slush",
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"stupidity",
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"taradiddle",
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"tarradiddle",
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"tommyrot",
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"tosh",
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"trash",
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"trumpery",
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"twaddle"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062418",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"malarky":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": insincere or foolish talk : bunkum":[
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"He thinks that everything politicians say is a bunch of malarkey ."
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"He thinks everything politicians say is just a bunch of malarkey .",
|
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"the old lady declared that everything politicians say is pure malarkey",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"That\u2019s where working with the young progressive wing of the party instead of acting like their policies are a bunch of malarkey (to borrow his catchphrase) would come in handy. \u2014 Lily Herman, Teen Vogue , 4 Mar. 2020",
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"If anything, last night reinforced our campaign's anti- malarkey stance. \u2014 NBC News , 4 Feb. 2020",
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"With the caveat that such maps are, for the most part, utter malarkey , Google Trends is back at it again for this year's Super Bowl. \u2014 Matt Bonesteel, Anchorage Daily News , 1 Feb. 2020",
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"The regulations are particularly less-than-ideal for the companies\u2014 malarkey , some might say\u2014because the city is among their largest markets. \u2014 Aarian Marshall, WIRED , 16 Aug. 2019",
|
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"Boat-man 2 Hitman 2\u2019s also got some release date malarkey going on. \u2014 Hayden Dingman, PCWorld , 9 Nov. 2018",
|
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"The people who spread malarkey also often set up fake accounts or break basic community standards. \u2014 Nicholas Thompson, WIRED , 23 May 2018",
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"Two nifty 20th-century words are malarkey (1929) and gobbledygook (1944). \u2014 Stephen Miller, WSJ , 29 May 2018",
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"Some malarkey does get thrown into the mix: since his aims are frequently carnal, Lee\u2019s mysticism can seem, even to him, like misdirection, or perhaps mood music. \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 8 May 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1923, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"origin unknown":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"m\u0259-\u02c8l\u00e4r-k\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"applesauce",
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"balderdash",
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"baloney",
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"boloney",
|
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"beans",
|
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"bilge",
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"blah",
|
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"blah-blah",
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"blarney",
|
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"blather",
|
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"blatherskite",
|
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"blither",
|
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"bosh",
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"bull",
|
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"bunk",
|
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"bunkum",
|
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"buncombe",
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"claptrap",
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"codswallop",
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"crapola",
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"crock",
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"drivel",
|
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"drool",
|
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"fiddle",
|
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"fiddle-faddle",
|
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"fiddlesticks",
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"flannel",
|
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"flapdoodle",
|
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"folderol",
|
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"falderal",
|
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"folly",
|
|
"foolishness",
|
|
"fudge",
|
|
"garbage",
|
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"guff",
|
|
"hogwash",
|
|
"hokeypokey",
|
|
"hokum",
|
|
"hoodoo",
|
|
"hooey",
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"horsefeathers",
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"humbug",
|
|
"humbuggery",
|
|
"jazz",
|
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"moonshine",
|
|
"muck",
|
|
"nerts",
|
|
"nonsense",
|
|
"nuts",
|
|
"piffle",
|
|
"poppycock",
|
|
"punk",
|
|
"rot",
|
|
"rubbish",
|
|
"senselessness",
|
|
"silliness",
|
|
"slush",
|
|
"stupidity",
|
|
"taradiddle",
|
|
"tarradiddle",
|
|
"tommyrot",
|
|
"tosh",
|
|
"trash",
|
|
"trumpery",
|
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"twaddle"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172929",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malcontent":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"content",
|
|
"contented",
|
|
"gratified",
|
|
"pleased",
|
|
"satisfied"
|
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],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a discontented person:":[],
|
|
": dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs : discontented":[],
|
|
": one who bears a grudge from a sense of grievance or thwarted ambition":[
|
|
"malcontents \u2026 bitter and almost choking with self-pity",
|
|
"\u2014 E. W. Griffiths"
|
|
],
|
|
": one who is in active opposition to an established order or government : rebel":[
|
|
"a country infested with political malcontents"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"He complained so much that he got a reputation for being a malcontent .",
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"she seems like a very malcontent person, always acting as if the entire world were out to get her",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"As usual, Koepka, golf\u2019s all-world malcontent , used the right words to take aim at the wrong target, blaming the media rather than the storm itself. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"But the more uncomfortable insider threat comes from the criminal or malicious insider \u2013 a malcontent within the business who wilfully exploits their system access to catalyse a data breach. \u2014 Chuck Everette, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Two comedy writers on the brink of losing everything \u2014 Las Vegas legend Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and millennial malcontent Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) \u2014reluctantly team up to save themselves. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 6 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"RB Corey Dillon \u2013 he was acquired before the draft in a move Belichick would use to great effect, bringing in an apparent malcontent below market value \u2013 rushed for a franchise-record 1,635 yards. \u2014 Nate Davis, USA TODAY , 2 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Several players, including Greg Newsome II and Schwartz dismissed the anonymous malcontent quote. \u2014 cleveland , 6 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"Beckham apparently asked to be traded multiple times before this week\u2019s divorce, and has a history of being a malcontent with two franchises now. \u2014 Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com , 5 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"Thus, a malcontent might in their noggin believe that using their car horn was reasonably necessary, even though to any independent third party the usage was egregious and utterly unnecessary in the circumstances. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 1 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"But that also doesn\u2019t mean that a whistleblower should be axiomatically tainted as a malcontent simply due to acting as a whistleblower. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 23 June 2021",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"The South West is a healing mecca for artists and malcontent media sorts, new age travelers, purveyors of crystals and surfers seeking budget California on the beaches of the Cornish Atlantic. \u2014 Crispin Hunt, Billboard , 22 May 2019",
|
|
"But prominent leaders \u2014 not least, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany \u2014 warned that a jilted European Union would be in no mood to extend Britain a rewarding deal, lest other malcontent members take encouragement to go for the exits. \u2014 Peter S. Goodman, New York Times , 23 June 2016"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1581, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
|
|
"circa 1584, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle French, from mal- + content content":"Adjective and Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccmal-k\u0259n-\u02c8tent"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"aggrieved",
|
|
"discontent",
|
|
"discontented",
|
|
"disgruntled",
|
|
"displeased",
|
|
"dissatisfied"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174929",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malcontented":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": malcontent":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1586, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccmal-k\u0259n-\u02c8ten-t\u0259d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035650",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"maldonite":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a mineral of variable composition but approximately Au 2 Bi consisting of an alloy of gold and bismuth":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Maldon , Victoria, Australia, its locality + English -ite":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8m\u022fld\u0259\u02ccn\u012bt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125057",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malduck":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": fulmar":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"probably alteration (influenced by duck ) of mallemuck":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8mald\u0259k"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113449",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"male":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"bastard",
|
|
"bloke",
|
|
"buck",
|
|
"cat",
|
|
"chap",
|
|
"chappie",
|
|
"dude",
|
|
"fella",
|
|
"fellow",
|
|
"galoot",
|
|
"gent",
|
|
"gentleman",
|
|
"guy",
|
|
"hombre",
|
|
"jack",
|
|
"joe",
|
|
"joker",
|
|
"lad",
|
|
"man"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a male person : a man or a boy":[],
|
|
": a plant having stamens but no pistils":[],
|
|
": an individual of the sex that is typically capable of producing small, usually motile gametes (such as sperm or spermatozoa) which fertilize the eggs of a female":[],
|
|
": characteristic of boys, men, or the male sex : exhibiting maleness":[
|
|
"a deep male voice"
|
|
],
|
|
": designed for or typically used by boys or men":[
|
|
"a male cologne",
|
|
"male contraceptives"
|
|
],
|
|
": designed with a projecting part for fitting into a corresponding female part":[
|
|
"a male hose coupling"
|
|
],
|
|
": engaged in or exercised by boys or men":[
|
|
"A social code that taught women deference to male power in return for protection was upended \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Jane E. Schultz"
|
|
],
|
|
": having a gender identity that is the opposite of female":[],
|
|
": having a quality (such as vigor or boldness) sometimes associated with the male sex":[],
|
|
": having or producing only stamens or staminate flowers":[
|
|
"a male holly"
|
|
],
|
|
": made up of usually adult members of the male sex : consisting of males":[
|
|
"a male choir"
|
|
],
|
|
": masculine sense 3a":[
|
|
"a male rhyme"
|
|
],
|
|
": of, relating to, or being the sex that typically has the capacity to produce relatively small, usually motile gametes which fertilize the eggs of a female":[],
|
|
"atoll in the Indian Ocean that is the chief island of the Maldives and contains the nation's capital population 103,693":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"There were more male than female students.",
|
|
"Most extension cords have a male plug on one end and a female plug on the other.",
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"She attended a school where there were more males than females.",
|
|
"The male of this species assists the female in feeding the young.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"The Cincinnati jury \u2013 who like Ebens were mostly White, male and blue-collar workers \u2013 cleared Ebens of all charges. \u2014 Harmeet Kaur, CNN , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"But is Elvis too old \u2014 not to mention too white and too male \u2014 for resurrection in 2022",
|
|
"Based on accounts at the time, most of those who were killed by the mob were male , according to forensic scientist Phoebe Stubblefield, a member of the team that excavated the cemetery and the remains. \u2014 Ken Miller, ajc , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Based on accounts at the time, most of those who were killed by the mob were male , according to forensic scientist Phoebe Stubblefield, a member of the team that excavated the cemetery and the remains. \u2014 CBS News , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"The 34 categories include album of the year; album of the year, male artist; album of the year, female artist; song of the year; collaboration of the year; top social artist; and video of the year. \u2014 Griselda Flores, Billboard , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"Facial recognition systems are often trained on predominately white and male databases, so their findings can become biased when used on other cultures or groups. \u2014 Christine Mui, Fortune , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"At first, the typical podcast audience skewed younger, white and slightly more male . \u2014 Conal Byrne, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"Boardroom shift:Corporate boards used to be mostly white and male . \u2014 Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"As further evidence of the #GentleMinions craze, the newest film was almost even in terms of gender, with 51 percent female and 49 percent male . \u2014 Pamela Mcclintock, The Hollywood Reporter , 4 July 2022",
|
|
"Of the 53 people who died, 40 were identified as male and 13 as female, according to the Bexar County Public Information Office. \u2014 Christine Fernando, USA TODAY , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"In a landmark 2012 analysis, The Times reported that Oscar voters were at that time 94% white and 77% male . \u2014 Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Officers arrived on the scene to find an unresponsive male and three additional males suffering from injuries due to the collision. \u2014 Jordan Parker, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"This week's challenge is played in heats of one male and one female contestant per round, as players lean out of a helicopter to look down and memorize a colored pattern floating in the water below. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"Police described the suspect as a male in dark clothes and a hooded jacket, CBS Bay Area reports. \u2014 Alex Sundby, CBS News , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Lim, 21, was born male and now identifies as trans feminine. \u2014 Heather Chen, CNN , 19 June 2022",
|
|
"In December 2021, the sanctuary reported to federal officials that one male had bled to death and another had died after attacks by others. \u2014 Janet Mcconnaughey, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Adjective"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Anglo-French masle, male , adjective & noun, from Latin masculus \u2014 more at masculine":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8m\u0101l",
|
|
"\u02c8m\u00e4-l\u0113",
|
|
"\u02c8m\u0101(\u0259)l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"man-size",
|
|
"man-sized",
|
|
"manlike",
|
|
"manly",
|
|
"mannish",
|
|
"masculine",
|
|
"virile"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105411",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"geographical name",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"maledict":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"bless"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": accursed":[],
|
|
": curse , execrate":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"a fiery televangelist who was notorious for maledicting liberals and their ilk on a weekly basis"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1623, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
|
|
"1867, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Late Latin maledictus , past participle of maledicere":"Adjective"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccma-l\u0259-\u02c8dikt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"anathematize",
|
|
"beshrew",
|
|
"curse",
|
|
"imprecate"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194707",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malediction":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"benediction",
|
|
"benison",
|
|
"blessing"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": curse , execration":[
|
|
"I taunted him, ridiculed him, and loaded him with maledictions",
|
|
"\u2014 Sir Walter Scott"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the two old women began casting aspersions and heaping maledictions upon one another",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Despite this Sisyphean malediction , with each call for new proposals, the community still tries to push its boulder back to the mountaintop. \u2014 Robin George Andrews, Scientific American , 2 June 2021",
|
|
"But perhaps the malediction presently heaped upon them will give them pause in the future. \u2014 Winston Groom, WSJ , 4 Dec. 2018",
|
|
"Their language seemed perfectly suited for songs and maledictions . \u2014 Linda Kinstler, Longreads , 27 June 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English malediccioun , from Late Latin malediction-, maledictio , from maledicere to curse, from Latin, to speak evil of, from male badly + dicere to speak, say \u2014 more at mal- , diction":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccma-l\u0259-\u02c8dik-sh\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"anathema",
|
|
"ban",
|
|
"curse",
|
|
"execration",
|
|
"imprecation",
|
|
"malison",
|
|
"winze"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204509",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malefaction":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"noncrime"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an evil deed : crime":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the town treasurer has been linked to the kickback scheme and other financial malefactions",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"A pitch-framing specialist with rare agility behind the plate, Wolters must coax pitchers through Coors Field and its occasional malefactions . \u2014 Orange County Register , 1 Apr. 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccma-l\u0259-\u02c8fak-sh\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"breach",
|
|
"crime",
|
|
"debt",
|
|
"error",
|
|
"lawbreaking",
|
|
"misdeed",
|
|
"misdoing",
|
|
"offense",
|
|
"offence",
|
|
"sin",
|
|
"transgression",
|
|
"trespass",
|
|
"violation",
|
|
"wrongdoing"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023408",
|
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"malefactor":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": one who does ill toward another":[
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"a sinister malefactor abusing his power",
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"\u2014 Iron Age"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"she regards anyone who would cause the breakup of a family as a malefactor of the worst sort",
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"the victim was able to give a clear description of the malefactor to the police",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The attacker can essentially trick the AI into doing the bidding of the malefactor . \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
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"But Calvin pulls a knife on Lombardo, who starts throwing the (6-foot-4) malefactor around, an improbable feat. \u2014 Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY , 22 July 2021",
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"On Halloween night in 1939, all were riding the elevator to the top floor when a malefactor 's evil curse zapped them into the spirit world. \u2014 Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com , 24 June 2021",
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"Where once conspiracy theorists looked to Russia as the enemy, they were suddenly left without a malefactor . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Mar. 2021",
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"The declaration makes no mention of any particular malefactor , and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau avoided offering any more specificity. \u2014 Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner , 16 Feb. 2021",
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"The social-networking giant faces the prospect that malicious actors in the United States and abroad could try to undermine the process in the same way that Russian malefactors seized on the 2016 presidential election to sow social unrest online. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Dec. 2019",
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"And yet, these malefactors are not nearly as dangerous as the first film\u2019s Bergens. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 10 Apr. 2020",
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"The kids were doing themselves a favor \u2014 young people have more of a future for Senator Sanders and his coterie of socialist dingbat malefactors to ruin. Arising from the tumult, triumphant, was the dotty figure of Joe Biden. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 5 Mar. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English malefactour , from Latin malefactor , from malefacere to do evil, from male + facere to do \u2014 more at do":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ma-l\u0259-\u02ccfak-t\u0259r"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"evildoer",
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"immoralist",
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"sinner",
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"wrongdoer"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193518",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"malevolence":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": malevolent behavior":[
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"an era full of selfishness and malevolence"
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],
|
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": the quality or state of being malevolent":[
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"slander that arose from pure malevolence"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"only mindless malevolence would explain this cruel vandalism",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Danger! \u2014 an overwhelming emblem of colonial malevolence . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
|
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"After a long night of drinking and a random bedroom romp with one of the restaurant-goers (Kim Dong-Seok), who will soon enough be confronted by her malevolence , Freddie heads to the adoption center. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"Back then, Coriolanus Snow\u2014the white-haired president of Panem, played with elegant malevolence by the incomparable Donald Sutherland in the four cinematic adaptations of Suzanne Collins\u2019s best-selling trilogy\u2014was only an ambitious teenager. \u2014 Radhika Seth, Vogue , 1 June 2022",
|
|
"For one: how Phil\u2019s malevolence comes from a place of self-loathing and self-protection as a closeted gay man living in Montana in 1925. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Ayosa wants to go and do, but tragedy and other people\u2019s malevolence stalk her. \u2014 Nanjala Nyabola, Vogue , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
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"In some ways, legal experts said, the imagery of civilians shot at close range conveys a more personal malevolence . \u2014 New York Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"But Cumberbatch, all tense, taut malevolence , dominates the proceedings. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Hybrids are popular these days: cars that run on electricity and gas, people who run on pig hearts and other animal entrails, journalists who blend fact, fiction and malevolence . \u2014 Dave Shiflett, WSJ , 24 Feb. 2022"
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"m\u0259-\u02c8le-v\u0259-l\u0259n(t)s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for malevolence malice , malevolence , ill will , spite , malignity , spleen , grudge mean the desire to see another experience pain, injury, or distress. malice implies a deep-seated often unexplainable desire to see another suffer. felt no malice toward their former enemies malevolence suggests a bitter persistent hatred that is likely to be expressed in malicious conduct. a look of dark malevolence ill will implies a feeling of antipathy of limited duration. ill will provoked by a careless remark spite implies petty feelings of envy and resentment that are often expressed in small harassments. petty insults inspired by spite malignity implies deep passion and relentlessness. a life consumed by motiveless malignity spleen suggests the wrathful release of latent spite or persistent malice. venting his spleen against politicians grudge implies a harbored feeling of resentment or ill will that seeks satisfaction. never one to harbor a grudge",
|
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"synonyms":[
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"cattiness",
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"despite",
|
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"hatefulness",
|
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"malice",
|
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"maliciousness",
|
|
"malignance",
|
|
"malignancy",
|
|
"malignity",
|
|
"meanness",
|
|
"nastiness",
|
|
"spite",
|
|
"spitefulness",
|
|
"spleen",
|
|
"venom",
|
|
"viciousness"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060203",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malevolent":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"benevolent",
|
|
"benign",
|
|
"benignant",
|
|
"loving",
|
|
"unmalicious"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite , or hatred":[],
|
|
": productive of harm or evil":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"There was no acknowledgment of the effects of cycle upon cycle of malevolent defeat, of the injury of seeing one generation rise above the cusp of poverty only to be indignantly crushed, of the impact of repeating tsunamis of violence \u2026 \u2014 Douglas A. Blackmon , Slavery By Another Name , 2008",
|
|
"The sky looks heavy enough to sink and crush us when we see another twister bullying across the fields\u2014a squat, malevolent -looking wedge. \u2014 Priit J. Vesilind , National Geographic , April 2004",
|
|
"No bigger than most house cats, it is possessed of such formidable armor and malevolent mien that when the makers of the latest Godzilla epic went looking for a prototype, they selected this lizard \u2026 \u2014 Peter Benchley , National Geographic , April 1999",
|
|
"The predominant spirit is very un-American; a kind of malevolent , drifting determinism pervades human beings who cannot, or do not want to, cope. \u2014 John Fowles , Atlantic , August 1986",
|
|
"the novel grossly oversimplified the conflict as a struggle between relentlessly malevolent villains on one side and faultless saints on the other",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"There\u2019s a nice line in finding new ways for a body to bend, so that people turn briefly into ragdolls to be grotesquely flung around by malevolent whatsits. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 18 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Willem Dafoe is Clem, the carnival\u2019s malevolent owner. \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 16 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"In order to better understand stress, researchers teamed up with an extra scary haunted house that specialized in such frights as locking people in coffins, administering electric shocks and confronting people with malevolent clowns. \u2014 Dan Ariely, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"To clarify, such a malevolent AI doesn\u2019t necessarily have to be sentient. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Rather, it is being blowtorched away by malevolent experts working in concert. \u2014 Peter Wood, National Review , 12 May 2022",
|
|
"During his watch, he is terrorized by a malevolent force searching for its next victim. \u2014 Andrew Walsh, EW.com , 5 May 2022",
|
|
"Even in countries facing less dire circumstances, farmers are grappling with malevolent arithmetic, as prices rise for animal feed, fertilizers and pesticides. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"As the creepy events around Harper grow more malevolent , easy explanations are scarce, but the film is littered with symbolism beyond its central casting, giving viewers plenty to gnaw on during repeat viewings. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 14 May 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1509, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latin malevolent-, malevolens , from male badly + volent-, volens , present participle of velle to wish \u2014 more at mal- , will":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"m\u0259-\u02c8le-v\u0259-l\u0259nt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bad",
|
|
"bitchy",
|
|
"catty",
|
|
"cruel",
|
|
"despiteful",
|
|
"hateful",
|
|
"malicious",
|
|
"malign",
|
|
"malignant",
|
|
"mean",
|
|
"nasty",
|
|
"spiteful",
|
|
"vicious",
|
|
"virulent"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163822",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malformed":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"undeformed"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": characterized by malformation : badly or imperfectly formed : misshapen":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"a clay sculpture of an eagle that was so malformed that it looked more like a feathered football",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Alone, is that the action all revolves around a malformed porcelain German doll with an upside-down head. \u2014 Rebecca Alter, Vulture , 30 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"The cranium has ruminated for decades in a display case, amid pathological and anatomical anomalies such as malformed fetuses and pickled liver stones. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Feb. 2020",
|
|
"One was a jokey baking show in which each participant had made some kind of malformed cake to be mocked by the judges; the other saw Murphy play a manic Christmas elf telling a TV reporter about a polar-bear attack. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 22 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"The malformed cells can get stuck in small blood vessels, resulting in severe pain and, over time, organ degradation. \u2014 Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com , 22 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"Chronic wasting disease is highly infectious and caused by malformed proteins called prions. \u2014 USA TODAY , 21 July 2019",
|
|
"Moustafa suspected an objection to his son's malformed left arm and hand, which need surgery. \u2014 Adam Geller, Fox News , 27 Mar. 2018",
|
|
"Aliyana, who lives in Falls Township, often experiences headaches, labored breathing and pain crises \u2014 a severe attack due to malformed cells blocking blood vessels. \u2014 Cassie Owens, Philly.com , 17 May 2018",
|
|
"In early 2014, when Travis Hogan's malformed heart was failing, his longtime doctors at Texas Children's Hospital referred him to Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, long recognized as one of the best in the country for complicated heart transplants. \u2014 Mike Hixenbaugh/houston Chronicle, Houston Chronicle , 15 May 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1817, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"(\u02c8)mal-\u02c8f\u022f(\u0259)rmd",
|
|
"\u02ccmal-\u02c8f\u022frmd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"deformed",
|
|
"distorted",
|
|
"misshapen",
|
|
"monstrous",
|
|
"shapeless"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062902",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malfunctioning":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a failure to operate or function in the normal or correct manner : the action or an instance of malfunctioning":[
|
|
"a hardware/equipment malfunction",
|
|
"Once thought to be a disease itself dropsy is now known to be a sign of several kinds of body malfunction , especially congestive heart failure and kidney disease.",
|
|
"\u2014 C. Clairborne Ray",
|
|
"In schizophrenia this filtering system malfunctions or short-circuits. This malfunction causes people to misevaluate what they see, hear, and experience in their environment.",
|
|
"\u2014 Richard Crino"
|
|
],
|
|
": to function imperfectly or badly : fail to operate normally":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"A software problem is causing the system to malfunction .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"The devices can malfunction and start themselves without any user input. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 14 June 2022",
|
|
"The Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS) module could malfunction and cause an electrical short, which could result in an engine compartment fire. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 20 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"At least once a day, some kind of equipment would malfunction or fail entirely, leading to downtime in fulfilling orders. \u2014 Stephanie Cain, Fortune , 31 May 2022",
|
|
"The brake lights may malfunction by unintentionally flickering due to faulty rear tail lights. \u2014 USA TODAY , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"And Dollar Tree recalled about a million hot glue guns that can malfunction while in use. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 9 May 2022",
|
|
"The Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS) module could malfunction and cause an electrical short, which could result in an engine compartment fire. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 20 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The hot glue gun can malfunction when users plug it in. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 18 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS) module could malfunction and cause an electrical short, which could result in an engine compartment fire. \u2014 Detroit Free Press , 20 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1892, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
|
|
"1941, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccmal-\u02c8f\u0259\u014b(k)-sh\u0259n",
|
|
"(\u02c8)mal-\u02c8f\u0259\u014b(k)-sh\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-230559",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"intransitive verb",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malice":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": desire to cause pain, injury, or distress to another":[
|
|
"an attack motivated by pure malice"
|
|
],
|
|
": intent to commit an unlawful act or cause harm without legal justification or excuse":[
|
|
"ruined her reputation and did it with malice"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"All of this is about control, of course. While nicknames can just as easily be dispensed with affection as with malice , either way the practice is as stone alpha male as social interaction gets. \u2014 Garry Trudeau , Time , 12 Feb. 2001",
|
|
"The killer that Capote himself became\u2014far more efficiently than Perry and Dick\u2014when, in poisonous prose and on talk-shows, he laid waste his friends and skewered his competitors with malice as pure as the air in an oxygen tent. \u2014 Molly Haskell , New York Times Book Review , 12 June 1988",
|
|
"It isn't so much courage that I would need, as the patience to endure the grinding malice of bureaucratic harassment. \u2014 Alice Walker , Living by the Word , 1981",
|
|
"No doubt his natural floridity of face encouraged whispers, and partisan malice exaggerated them; but during the eighteen-thirties he certainly drank enough to invite the solicitude of his friends and the gibes of his enemies. \u2014 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. , The Age of Jackson , 1946",
|
|
"an attack motivated by pure malice",
|
|
"She claimed that her criticisms were without malice .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Many people associated with the team, including fans and longtime players, have sometimes inadvertently used the old name, not out of malice , but simply from habit. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"What writer does not, at some point, endure the opposite\u2014the awful vulnerability of her words in the world, and her inability to defend them from being misread, even mutilated, by those goblin rats of malice , envy, laziness, mere incomprehension",
|
|
"Brandon Joseph, of Stone Mountain, is facing a charge of malice murder in the death of a 31-year-old man, DeKalb police spokeswoman Elise Wells said. \u2014 Caroline Silva, ajc , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"The judge did not find malice as an aggravating factor Wednesday, saying that would call for some speculation. \u2014 NBC News , 20 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Their strained senses of identity, aspirations and personal lives are all richly explored by May \u2014 and in time become targets of the machinations of Isobel, a woman of ingenious malice . \u2014 Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"Lawyers for InfoWars have countered in court documents that Fontaine has failed to show any evidence of malice or any injury because of his photo\u2019s publication. \u2014 Mark Pratt, Hartford Courant , 20 May 2022",
|
|
"Lawyers for InfoWars have countered in court documents that Fontaine has failed to show any evidence of malice or any injury because of his photo\u2019s publication. \u2014 Mark Pratt, Sun Sentinel , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"To get a second-degree murder conviction, Gould must prove that Grossman acted with implied malice and knew the act of driving more than 70 mph in a residential area was dangerous to human life. \u2014 Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times , 5 May 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin malitia , from malus bad":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ma-l\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for malice malice , malevolence , ill will , spite , malignity , spleen , grudge mean the desire to see another experience pain, injury, or distress. malice implies a deep-seated often unexplainable desire to see another suffer. felt no malice toward their former enemies malevolence suggests a bitter persistent hatred that is likely to be expressed in malicious conduct. a look of dark malevolence ill will implies a feeling of antipathy of limited duration. ill will provoked by a careless remark spite implies petty feelings of envy and resentment that are often expressed in small harassments. petty insults inspired by spite malignity implies deep passion and relentlessness. a life consumed by motiveless malignity spleen suggests the wrathful release of latent spite or persistent malice. venting his spleen against politicians grudge implies a harbored feeling of resentment or ill will that seeks satisfaction. never one to harbor a grudge",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"cattiness",
|
|
"despite",
|
|
"hatefulness",
|
|
"malevolence",
|
|
"maliciousness",
|
|
"malignance",
|
|
"malignancy",
|
|
"malignity",
|
|
"meanness",
|
|
"nastiness",
|
|
"spite",
|
|
"spitefulness",
|
|
"spleen",
|
|
"venom",
|
|
"viciousness"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210451",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malicious":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"benevolent",
|
|
"benign",
|
|
"benignant",
|
|
"loving",
|
|
"unmalicious"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice":[
|
|
"malicious gossip"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"\u2026 she is an inspired hater, and thrills to malicious descriptions of long-forgotten, nameless individuals whose bad luck it was to live near her, or to have met her socially. \u2014 Joyce Carol Oates , New York Times Book Review , 5 Nov. 2000",
|
|
"A cunning and malicious crook who suckered him without half trying. \u2014 Philip Roth , American Pastoral , 1997",
|
|
"Frank sensed her discomfort and took a certain malicious pleasure in it, enacting all the while his perfect innocence. \u2014 John Updike , The Afterlife , 1994",
|
|
"a malicious distortion of the truth",
|
|
"the neighborhood chatterbox has again been spreading malicious gossip",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Enlarge BPF in the image refers to the Berkeley Packet Filter, which allows people to conceal malicious network traffic on an infected machine. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"Thankfully, the likelihood of a malicious alien civilization is vanishingly small, a scientist has found. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 7 June 2022",
|
|
"Cambridge police documented the incident and originally described it as malicious destruction to a cemetery. \u2014 Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
|
|
"This filtering prevents elevation of privileges that allow attackers to extend the functionality of a device for malicious purposes. \u2014 Michael Mehlberg, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
|
|
"That was a malicious rumor born in the fever swamps of the message board 4chan. \u2014 Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone , 25 May 2022",
|
|
"Most antivirus programs will also flag the program as a malicious threat. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"So the policy emphasis shouldn\u2019t be on eliminating firearm ownership altogether but working toward limiting malicious criminals\u2019 and dangerously mentally ill individuals\u2019 access to guns. \u2014 WSJ , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"In January 2016, a Black woman, Cynthia Fuller, filed a lawsuit against Sloan and Monroe County alleging malicious prosecution for a drug raid she\u2019d been swept up in years earlier at the home of her boyfriend, Unseld Parks. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 May 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"see malice":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"m\u0259-\u02c8li-sh\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bad",
|
|
"bitchy",
|
|
"catty",
|
|
"cruel",
|
|
"despiteful",
|
|
"hateful",
|
|
"malevolent",
|
|
"malign",
|
|
"malignant",
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": willful, wanton, or reckless damage to or destruction of another's property":[]
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Sherman is also facing charges of criminal trespass with a domestic violence designation, malicious mischief and resisting arrest. \u2014 oregonlive , 16 July 2021",
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"Sherman originally faced several misdemeanor charges, including driving under the influence, reckless endangerment of roadway workers, second-degree criminal trespass, resisting arrest and third-degree malicious mischief . \u2014 NBC News , 8 Mar. 2022",
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"Sherman originally faced several misdemeanor charges, including driving under the influence, reckless endangerment of roadway workers, second-degree criminal trespass, resisting arrest and third-degree malicious mischief . \u2014 NBC News , 8 Mar. 2022",
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"Sherman originally faced several misdemeanor charges, including driving under the influence, reckless endangerment of roadway workers, second-degree criminal trespass, resisting arrest and third-degree malicious mischief . \u2014 NBC News , 8 Mar. 2022",
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"Sherman originally faced several misdemeanor charges, including driving under the influence, reckless endangerment of roadway workers, second-degree criminal trespass, resisting arrest and third-degree malicious mischief . \u2014 oregonlive , 7 Mar. 2022",
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"These crimes \u2014 larceny, residential burglary, fraud, commercial burglaries, malicious mischief and some domestic crimes \u2014 fell 3.8 percent. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 31 Oct. 2021",
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"Two Washougal residents \u2014 18-year-old Cooper K. Akers and a 15-year-old boy \u2014 were arrested Tuesday night on multiple counts of commercial burglary, felony theft and malicious mischief , according to a news release. \u2014 oregonlive , 29 Dec. 2021",
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"In San Diego, malicious mischief crimes \u2014 vandalism, graffiti and the like \u2014 increased by nearly 15 percent from 2019, more than any other crime analyzed by the Union-Tribune. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 31 Oct. 2021"
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"benevolent",
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"benign",
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"benignant",
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"loving",
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],
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": having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice":[
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"malicious gossip"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"\u2026 she is an inspired hater, and thrills to malicious descriptions of long-forgotten, nameless individuals whose bad luck it was to live near her, or to have met her socially. \u2014 Joyce Carol Oates , New York Times Book Review , 5 Nov. 2000",
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"A cunning and malicious crook who suckered him without half trying. \u2014 Philip Roth , American Pastoral , 1997",
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"Frank sensed her discomfort and took a certain malicious pleasure in it, enacting all the while his perfect innocence. \u2014 John Updike , The Afterlife , 1994",
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"a malicious distortion of the truth",
|
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"the neighborhood chatterbox has again been spreading malicious gossip",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Enlarge BPF in the image refers to the Berkeley Packet Filter, which allows people to conceal malicious network traffic on an infected machine. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 9 June 2022",
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"Thankfully, the likelihood of a malicious alien civilization is vanishingly small, a scientist has found. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 7 June 2022",
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"Cambridge police documented the incident and originally described it as malicious destruction to a cemetery. \u2014 Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com , 6 June 2022",
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"This filtering prevents elevation of privileges that allow attackers to extend the functionality of a device for malicious purposes. \u2014 Michael Mehlberg, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
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"That was a malicious rumor born in the fever swamps of the message board 4chan. \u2014 Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone , 25 May 2022",
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"Most antivirus programs will also flag the program as a malicious threat. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 24 May 2022",
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"So the policy emphasis shouldn\u2019t be on eliminating firearm ownership altogether but working toward limiting malicious criminals\u2019 and dangerously mentally ill individuals\u2019 access to guns. \u2014 WSJ , 24 May 2022",
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"In January 2016, a Black woman, Cynthia Fuller, filed a lawsuit against Sloan and Monroe County alleging malicious prosecution for a drug raid she\u2019d been swept up in years earlier at the home of her boyfriend, Unseld Parks. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 May 2022"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"see malice":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"m\u0259-\u02c8li-sh\u0259s"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"bad",
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"bitchy",
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"catty",
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"cruel",
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"despiteful",
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"hateful",
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"malevolent",
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"malign",
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"malignant",
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"mean",
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"nasty",
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"spiteful",
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"vicious",
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"virulent"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033848",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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"maliferous":{
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": having an unhealthful effect : unwholesome":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"Latin mal um evil (from malus bad) + English -iferous":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"m\u0259\u02c8lif(\u0259)r\u0259s"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041909",
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},
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"malign":{
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"antonyms":[
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"asperse",
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"blacken",
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"calumniate",
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"defame",
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"libel",
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"slander",
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"smear",
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"traduce",
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"vilify"
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"definitions":{
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": evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious":[
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"the malign effects of illicit drugs"
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],
|
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": having or showing intense often vicious ill will : malevolent":[
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"gave him a malign look"
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],
|
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": malignant , virulent":[
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"a malign lesion"
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],
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": to utter injuriously misleading or false reports about : speak evil of":[
|
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"Her supporters say that she has been unfairly maligned in the press."
|
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]
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},
|
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"both parties to the divorce showed a malign desire to make each other's future life utterly miserable",
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"Verb",
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"Her supporters say she is being unfairly maligned in the press.",
|
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"a candidate who believes that it is possible to win an election without maligning anyone",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"After a 10-minute break, the committee was back at it, with a one-two punch in an attempt to prove Trump's malign intent. \u2014 Norman Eisen, CNN , 14 June 2022",
|
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"Not a symbol or conceit, but a living, malign intelligence that transcends the material plane and reacquaints us with our first language: fear. \u2014 Kent Russell, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
|
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"With the worsening relationship with United States and China and propaganda repeatedly blaming malign foreign forces for dissatisfaction in China, Mr. Han said the new policy could be quite effective at snuffing out complaints. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
|
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"Multilateral groups like the United Nations Human Rights Council have been co-opted by malign actors. \u2014 Aaron Rhodes, WSJ , 3 Mar. 2022",
|
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"One of the countries that has been at the center of Russia\u2019s malign influence has been Venezuela which has spent billions in securing its presence there. \u2014 Ben Evansky, Fox News , 5 May 2022",
|
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"The agreement, however, would neither limit its ballistic missiles or contain its malign regional behavior. \u2014 Aaron David Miller, CNN , 16 Mar. 2022",
|
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"The organizers said that the city is attempting to malign owners such as Mohsin by disclosing his record. \u2014 William Lee, Chicago Tribune , 10 May 2022",
|
|
"Western nations spent years racing to grab a slice of this oligarchic capital, loosening regulations and tightening protections to attract the kinds of malign wealth Russian oligarchs know well. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 27 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
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"In the video, the nurses malign the parents\u2019 hygiene and breast-feeding practices. \u2014 Cate Mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Central California, accused The Athletic and its former writer Molly Knight of a harassment campaign to malign him. \u2014 NBC News , 30 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Herds of invasive wild horses have, in recent decades, been thorns in the sides of environmentalists who malign the animals\u2019 destruction of resources critical to native wildlife. \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 11 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The result of the flawed process by election novices, the county found, was to falsely malign county employees, call into question the validity of legitimate votes and damage the confidence of the electorate. \u2014 Rosalind S. Helderman, Anchorage Daily News , 6 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Palmer said what still hurts is when people malign her sister\u2019s reputation. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Yet malign moral violations tended to elicit negative reactions. \u2014 Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor , 29 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"The Delhi police, however, sniffed an international conspiracy to malign India in this. \u2014 Niharika Sharma, Quartz , 19 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"Some in the English-speaking minority fear that legislation proposed by the provincial government to strengthen French will violate their rights and that the controversy will be used to unfairly malign the many of them who have learned French. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Nov. 2021"
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English maligne , from Anglo-French, from Latin malignus , from male badly + gignere to beget \u2014 more at mal- , kin":"Adjective",
|
|
"Middle English, from Anglo-French maligner to act maliciously, from Late Latin malignari , from Latin malignus \u2014 see malign entry 1":"Verb"
|
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|
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"m\u0259-\u02c8l\u012bn"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for malign Adjective sinister , baleful , malign mean seriously threatening evil or disaster. sinister suggests a general or vague feeling of fear or apprehension on the part of the observer. a sinister aura haunts the place baleful imputes perniciousness or destructiveness to something whether working openly or covertly. exerting a corrupt and baleful influence malign applies to what is inherently evil or harmful. the malign effects of racism Verb malign , traduce , asperse , vilify , calumniate , defame , slander mean to injure by speaking ill of. malign suggests specific and often subtle misrepresentation but may not always imply deliberate lying. the most maligned monarch in British history traduce stresses the resulting ignominy and distress to the victim. so traduced the governor that he was driven from office asperse implies continued attack on a reputation often by indirect or insinuated detraction. both candidates aspersed the other's motives vilify implies attempting to destroy a reputation by open and direct abuse. no criminal was more vilified in the press calumniate imputes malice to the speaker and falsity to the assertions. falsely calumniated as a traitor defame stresses the actual loss of or injury to one's good name. sued them for defaming her reputation slander stresses the suffering of the victim. town gossips slandered their good name",
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"bad",
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"catty",
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"hateful",
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"malevolent",
|
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"malicious",
|
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"malignant",
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"mean",
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"This is a movement that many progressives view as promising to reinvigorate hearts and minds, but that others warn may deliver different doses of theological malignance . \u2014 Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic , 3 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Where purity culture twists normal desires into malignance ",
|
|
"By definition Mishler\u2019s content attracts people seeking refuge, but the exceptional malignance of 2020 has colored both her videos and the attitude of her fan base. \u2014 New York Times , 25 Nov. 2020",
|
|
"Consequently, the growth disruption itself has exacerbated the cultural and economic malignance that helped create the underperforming trend in the first place. \u2014 David L. Bahnsen, National Review , 13 Feb. 2018"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1604, in the meaning defined above":""
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"malignancy",
|
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"malignity",
|
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|
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"nastiness",
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"type":[
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"m\u0259-\u02c8lig-n\u0259n(t)-s\u0113",
|
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"m\u0259-\u02c8lig-n\u0259n-s\u0113"
|
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|
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|
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|
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"despite",
|
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"hatefulness",
|
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"malevolence",
|
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"malice",
|
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"maliciousness",
|
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"malignance",
|
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"malignity",
|
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"meanness",
|
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"nastiness",
|
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"spite",
|
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"spitefulness",
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"the malignancy of the tumor",
|
|
"The test revealed a malignancy in the patient's chest.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Imaging revealed the tumor had not been removed, nor had a metal clip placed at the site of the biopsy to help identify the location of the malignancy . \u2014 Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"The latest evidence of that malignancy comes in a New York Times report about the Jan. 6 insurrection and how GOP congressional leaders responded in the immediate aftermath. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Last year the scientists behind the melanoma study found that antioxidants fuel the growth of another type of malignancy , lung cancer. \u2014 Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American , 7 Oct. 2015",
|
|
"Radioactive iodine still helps for high risk thyroid cancer, where the malignancy has already spread throughout the body. \u2014 Angus Chen, STAT , 10 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Then, there is the PTSD, radiation exposure, gravitational shifts and many injuries that increase his likelihood of accelerated bone loss and malignancy -- not to mention his chronic heart disease. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe, CNN , 13 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Cancers start small, often deep in tissues, where the malignancy evades early detection. \u2014 Scientific American , 16 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"Rare, difficult to treat and exceedingly aggressive, the malignancy had already penetrated Eihab\u2019s right eye socket. \u2014 Lynda Schuster, Washington Post , 13 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Not all papilloma growths are cancerous, but Dr. Fisher says about 10 to 15% of them may harbor a malignancy or precancerous cells. \u2014 Ashley Abramson, Health.com , 5 Oct. 2021"
|
|
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|
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|
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"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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|
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|
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|
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"malignant":{
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"benevolent",
|
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"benign",
|
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"benignant",
|
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"loving",
|
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"unmalicious"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious":[
|
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"a powerful and malignant influence"
|
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],
|
|
": malcontent , disaffected":[],
|
|
": passionately and relentlessly malevolent : aggressively malicious":[
|
|
"the malignant tongues of gossipers"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"a highly malignant form of cancer",
|
|
"a powerful and malignant influence",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Melissa Ward was told the malignant tumor in her right breast had been successfully treated with chemotherapy and a subsequent double mastectomy in 2018. \u2014 Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Following a CAT scan and more tests, a biopsy of his liver discovered a malignant tumor that had spread to his colon. \u2014 Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"This time, doctors found a malignant tumor near Brown's pancreas. \u2014 Jeff Potrykus, USA TODAY , 11 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"This time, doctors found a malignant tumor near Brown's pancreas. \u2014 Jeff Potrykus, USA TODAY , 11 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"This time, doctors found a malignant tumor near Brown's pancreas. \u2014 Jeff Potrykus, USA TODAY , 11 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The tumor was a very rare and highly aggressive malignant tumor of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 27 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Brown, who twice was diagnosed with cancer, most recently in 2020 when a malignant tumor was detected near his pancreas, spent recent weeks in hospice care, the Star-Telegram reported. \u2014 NBC News , 11 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"This time, doctors found a malignant tumor near Brown's pancreas. \u2014 Jeff Potrykus, USA TODAY , 11 Apr. 2022"
|
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|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1542, in the meaning defined at sense 2c":""
|
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|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Late Latin malignant-, malignans , present participle of malignari":""
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|
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"m\u0259-\u02c8lig-n\u0259nt"
|
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"bitchy",
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"catty",
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"cruel",
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"despiteful",
|
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"hateful",
|
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"malevolent",
|
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"malicious",
|
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"malign",
|
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"mean",
|
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"nasty",
|
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"spiteful",
|
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"vicious",
|
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"virulent"
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212910",
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|
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"adverb"
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},
|
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"maligned":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": spoken about in an injurious way : harshly or unfairly criticized":[
|
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"Roma, the largest ethnic minority in Eastern Europe, are perhaps the region's most misunderstood, most persecuted, and maligned minority.",
|
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"\u2014 Carol Silverman",
|
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"\u2026 an aerospace giant that built space shuttles and the much maligned , hugely expensive B-1 long-range bomber.",
|
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"\u2014 Time"
|
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]
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|
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"examples":[],
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|
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|
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"m\u0259-\u02c8l\u012bnd"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105555",
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"antonyms":[],
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"m\u0259\u02c8l\u012bn\u0259(r)"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175533",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"maligning":{
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"antonyms":[
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"asperse",
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"blacken",
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"calumniate",
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"defame",
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"libel",
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"slander",
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"smear",
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"traduce",
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"vilify"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious":[
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"the malign effects of illicit drugs"
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],
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": having or showing intense often vicious ill will : malevolent":[
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"gave him a malign look"
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],
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": malignant , virulent":[
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"a malign lesion"
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],
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": to utter injuriously misleading or false reports about : speak evil of":[
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"Her supporters say that she has been unfairly maligned in the press."
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"both parties to the divorce showed a malign desire to make each other's future life utterly miserable",
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"Verb",
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"Her supporters say she is being unfairly maligned in the press.",
|
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"a candidate who believes that it is possible to win an election without maligning anyone",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"After a 10-minute break, the committee was back at it, with a one-two punch in an attempt to prove Trump's malign intent. \u2014 Norman Eisen, CNN , 14 June 2022",
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"Not a symbol or conceit, but a living, malign intelligence that transcends the material plane and reacquaints us with our first language: fear. \u2014 Kent Russell, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
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"With the worsening relationship with United States and China and propaganda repeatedly blaming malign foreign forces for dissatisfaction in China, Mr. Han said the new policy could be quite effective at snuffing out complaints. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
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"Multilateral groups like the United Nations Human Rights Council have been co-opted by malign actors. \u2014 Aaron Rhodes, WSJ , 3 Mar. 2022",
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"One of the countries that has been at the center of Russia\u2019s malign influence has been Venezuela which has spent billions in securing its presence there. \u2014 Ben Evansky, Fox News , 5 May 2022",
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"The agreement, however, would neither limit its ballistic missiles or contain its malign regional behavior. \u2014 Aaron David Miller, CNN , 16 Mar. 2022",
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"The organizers said that the city is attempting to malign owners such as Mohsin by disclosing his record. \u2014 William Lee, Chicago Tribune , 10 May 2022",
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"Western nations spent years racing to grab a slice of this oligarchic capital, loosening regulations and tightening protections to attract the kinds of malign wealth Russian oligarchs know well. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 27 Apr. 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"In the video, the nurses malign the parents\u2019 hygiene and breast-feeding practices. \u2014 Cate Mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
|
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"The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Central California, accused The Athletic and its former writer Molly Knight of a harassment campaign to malign him. \u2014 NBC News , 30 Mar. 2022",
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"Herds of invasive wild horses have, in recent decades, been thorns in the sides of environmentalists who malign the animals\u2019 destruction of resources critical to native wildlife. \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 11 Feb. 2022",
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"The result of the flawed process by election novices, the county found, was to falsely malign county employees, call into question the validity of legitimate votes and damage the confidence of the electorate. \u2014 Rosalind S. Helderman, Anchorage Daily News , 6 Jan. 2022",
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"Palmer said what still hurts is when people malign her sister\u2019s reputation. \u2014 NBC News , 19 Jan. 2022",
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"Yet malign moral violations tended to elicit negative reactions. \u2014 Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor , 29 Nov. 2021",
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"The Delhi police, however, sniffed an international conspiracy to malign India in this. \u2014 Niharika Sharma, Quartz , 19 Nov. 2021",
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"Some in the English-speaking minority fear that legislation proposed by the provincial government to strengthen French will violate their rights and that the controversy will be used to unfairly malign the many of them who have learned French. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Nov. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English maligne , from Anglo-French, from Latin malignus , from male badly + gignere to beget \u2014 more at mal- , kin":"Adjective",
|
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French maligner to act maliciously, from Late Latin malignari , from Latin malignus \u2014 see malign entry 1":"Verb"
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"m\u0259-\u02c8l\u012bn"
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for malign Adjective sinister , baleful , malign mean seriously threatening evil or disaster. sinister suggests a general or vague feeling of fear or apprehension on the part of the observer. a sinister aura haunts the place baleful imputes perniciousness or destructiveness to something whether working openly or covertly. exerting a corrupt and baleful influence malign applies to what is inherently evil or harmful. the malign effects of racism Verb malign , traduce , asperse , vilify , calumniate , defame , slander mean to injure by speaking ill of. malign suggests specific and often subtle misrepresentation but may not always imply deliberate lying. the most maligned monarch in British history traduce stresses the resulting ignominy and distress to the victim. so traduced the governor that he was driven from office asperse implies continued attack on a reputation often by indirect or insinuated detraction. both candidates aspersed the other's motives vilify implies attempting to destroy a reputation by open and direct abuse. no criminal was more vilified in the press calumniate imputes malice to the speaker and falsity to the assertions. falsely calumniated as a traitor defame stresses the actual loss of or injury to one's good name. sued them for defaming her reputation slander stresses the suffering of the victim. town gossips slandered their good name",
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"synonyms":[
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"bad",
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"bitchy",
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"catty",
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"cruel",
|
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"despiteful",
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"hateful",
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"malevolent",
|
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"malicious",
|
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"malignant",
|
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"mean",
|
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"nasty",
|
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"spiteful",
|
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"vicious",
|
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"virulent"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182352",
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"adverb",
|
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"verb"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"malignity":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": an instance of malignant or malicious behavior or nature":[],
|
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": malignancy , malevolence":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"one of the characters in the novel is a dictator of such malignity that he came to be one of the most famous villains in all of literature",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Where Moyn is driven by a photonegative of American exceptionalism\u2014a sense that American power is a singular force of malignity in the world\u2014Arkin is concerned that this perpetual-war machine is at odds with America\u2019s strategic interests. \u2014 Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker , 6 Sep. 2021",
|
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"Decades of miserable history had to pass before the comedy buried within their malignity was revealed, like a vein of ore uncovered by a natural catastrophe. \u2014 Ian Frazier, The New Yorker , 19 Aug. 2019",
|
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"Sections on stock characters of anti-Jewish propaganda and political satire from across the centuries, such as Judas and the figure of the Jewish moneylender, expose the malignity and menace of the myth. \u2014 Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books , 17 June 2019"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"m\u0259-\u02c8lig-n\u0259-t\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for malignity malice , malevolence , ill will , spite , malignity , spleen , grudge mean the desire to see another experience pain, injury, or distress. malice implies a deep-seated often unexplainable desire to see another suffer. felt no malice toward their former enemies malevolence suggests a bitter persistent hatred that is likely to be expressed in malicious conduct. a look of dark malevolence ill will implies a feeling of antipathy of limited duration. ill will provoked by a careless remark spite implies petty feelings of envy and resentment that are often expressed in small harassments. petty insults inspired by spite malignity implies deep passion and relentlessness. a life consumed by motiveless malignity spleen suggests the wrathful release of latent spite or persistent malice. venting his spleen against politicians grudge implies a harbored feeling of resentment or ill will that seeks satisfaction. never one to harbor a grudge",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"cattiness",
|
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"despite",
|
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"hatefulness",
|
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"malevolence",
|
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"malice",
|
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"maliciousness",
|
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"malignance",
|
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"malignancy",
|
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"meanness",
|
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"nastiness",
|
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"spite",
|
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"spitefulness",
|
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"spleen",
|
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"venom",
|
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"viciousness"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103635",
|
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"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"malihini":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a newcomer or stranger among the people of Hawaii":[]
|
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},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1914, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Hawaiian":""
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccm\u00e4-li-\u02c8h\u0113-n\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055048",
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
|
"malik":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a chief or leader (as in a village) in parts of the subcontinent of India : headman":[],
|
|
": zamindar":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Hindi m\u0101lik , from Arabic":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8m\u00e4lik"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082635",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malikana":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a fee paid to a malik by way of rent or duty on land":[],
|
|
": a pension or allowance granted by the government to a malik":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Hindi m\u0101lik\u0101na , literally, proprietary, from Persian, from Arabic m\u0101lik":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccm\u00e4l\u0259\u0307\u02c8k\u00e4n\u0259"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-132404",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malison":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"benediction",
|
|
"benison",
|
|
"blessing"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": curse , malediction":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"muttered terrible malisons against her child's murderers"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Anglo-French malei\u00e7un , from Late Latin malediction-, maledictio":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ma-l\u0259-s\u0259n",
|
|
"-z\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"anathema",
|
|
"ban",
|
|
"curse",
|
|
"execration",
|
|
"imprecation",
|
|
"malediction",
|
|
"winze"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220451",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malleable":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces or influences":[],
|
|
": capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers":[],
|
|
": having a capacity for adaptive change":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The brothers Warner presented a flexible, malleable world that defied Newton, a world of such plasticity that anything imaginable was possible. \u2014 Billy Collins , Wall Street Journal , 28\u201329 June 2008",
|
|
"At each landing the villagers had carved the wonderfully malleable silt into staircases, terraces, crenellations, and ziggurats. \u2014 Kenneth Brower , National Geographic Traveler , March 2000",
|
|
"The boy seemed to me possessed by a blind, invalid arrogance, and every human being, as his eye flicked over or flinched against them, became, immediately, as malleable as his mother and his father. \u2014 James Baldwin , The Evidence of Things Not Seen , 1985",
|
|
"the cult leader took advantage of the malleable , compliant personalities of his followers",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Expectations in fashion, specifically, have become quite malleable in Japan. \u2014 Lex Byrd, USA TODAY , 7 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Yet production and consumption have not been dented, and legal experts feel the sentencing guidelines have become overly malleable . \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 27 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"While this year\u2019s festival will feature its share of world and U.S. bows, CEO and co-founder Gregg Schwenk notes that premieres by themselves have become malleable , with special advance screenings and virtual events blurring the lines. \u2014 Paul Plunkett, Variety , 21 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Lichen is a perceptive, malleable and mutable organism. \u2014 Sandra Macgregor, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"The study is the latest evidence that the mind is malleable . \u2014 Jonathan Wosen, STAT , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"What Lies Ahead Zachery would be down for a company that had a relatable message, would compensate her well, and could be malleable . \u2014 Brooklyn White, Essence , 28 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"And being malleable doesn't cost the company anything. \u2014 Chloe Berger, Fortune , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"And then there was Cobain\u2019s voice: as thin and malleable as a sheet of, uh, lithium. \u2014 Brad Shoup, Billboard , 24 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English malliable , from Medieval Latin malleabilis , from malleare to hammer, from Latin malleus hammer \u2014 more at maul":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ma-l\u0259-b\u0259l",
|
|
"\u02c8ma-l\u0113-\u0259-b\u0259l",
|
|
"\u02c8mal-y\u0259-b\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for malleable plastic , pliable , pliant , ductile , malleable , adaptable mean susceptible of being modified in form or nature. plastic applies to substances soft enough to be molded yet capable of hardening into the desired fixed form. plastic materials allow the sculptor greater freedom pliable suggests something easily bent, folded, twisted, or manipulated. pliable rubber tubing pliant may stress flexibility and sometimes connote springiness. an athletic shoe with a pliant sole ductile applies to what can be drawn out or extended with ease. ductile metals such as copper malleable applies to what may be pressed or beaten into shape. the malleable properties of gold adaptable implies the capability of being easily modified to suit other conditions, needs, or uses. computer hardware that is adaptable",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"moldable",
|
|
"plastic",
|
|
"shapable",
|
|
"shapeable",
|
|
"waxy"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183934",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malodor":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an offensive odor":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Some people who rapidly transitioned from aluminum-containing antiperspirant to natural deodorant have noted unpleasant results on social media, including malodor , significant sweating and irritation of the underarm area. \u2014 Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 14 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Aversive smells, too, can be linked to particular receptors, and malodor has lately been a major subject of inquiry for Firmenich. \u2014 Scott Sayare, Harper's Magazine , 23 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"Next time malodor strikes, thank your nose and brain for working together to gross you out. \u2014 Popular Science , 18 Sep. 2020",
|
|
"Most odors are actually combinations of odors, and elements that smell good in one scent can be perceived as a revolting malodor in the right context. \u2014 Popular Science , 18 Sep. 2020",
|
|
"There are also several tricks for mitigating the malodor from the beginning of the cooking. \u2014 Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com , 7 Mar. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1825, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccmal-\u02c8\u014d-d\u0259r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-222131",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"malodorous":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"ambrosial",
|
|
"aromatic",
|
|
"fragrant",
|
|
"perfumed",
|
|
"redolent",
|
|
"savory",
|
|
"savoury",
|
|
"scented",
|
|
"sweet"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": having a bad odor":[
|
|
"a malodorous mixture of chemicals"
|
|
],
|
|
": highly improper":[
|
|
"malodorous practices and chicanery in high financial places",
|
|
"\u2014 New Republic"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the cellar will need to be cleared of several malodorous , maggot-infested piles of garbage",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Two subways always coexist in our imagination: the actual subway\u2014filthy, malodorous , rodent-ridden, and all the rest, but always running\u2014and the subway as it is thematized and made iconic, by movies and television and the tabloids. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 19 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"So too their summers: sweaty, fleeting weeks of melting Popsicles, malodorous with bug repellent, the calendar countdown to hurricane season. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 29 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Research shows that people living near malodorous sites can suffer physiological symptoms including headaches, burning eyes and nausea as well as mental health challenges like depression and anxiety. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Simply put your face mask on and open a window in your kitchen while measuring it and portioning and baking the dough to prevent any malodorous smell from lingering. \u2014 Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times , 1 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Several days into her quarantine period, Ms. Moore took a whiff of Dumbo\u2019s typically malodorous food. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2021",
|
|
"Yet another put forward a strategy to combat the wine\u2019s malodorous nature. \u2014 Lettie Teague, WSJ , 5 May 2021",
|
|
"Dusty air fresheners gave the stagnant room the scent of malodorous imitation flowers. \u2014 Timothy Mclaughlin, The Atlantic , 29 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"Per the Times, researchers aren\u2019t totally sure about the active ingredient of the bees\u2019 malodorous home decor in terms of wasp repellent. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 11 Dec. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1850, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccmal-\u02c8\u014d-d\u0259-r\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for malodorous malodorous , stinking , fetid , noisome , putrid , rank , fusty , musty mean bad-smelling. malodorous may range from the unpleasant to the strongly offensive. malodorous fertilizers stinking and fetid suggest the foul or disgusting. prisoners were held in stinking cells the fetid odor of skunk cabbage noisome adds a suggestion of being harmful or unwholesome as well as offensive. a stagnant, noisome sewer putrid implies particularly the sickening odor of decaying organic matter. the putrid smell of rotting fish rank suggests a strong unpleasant smell. rank cigar smoke fusty and musty suggest lack of fresh air and sunlight, fusty also implying prolonged uncleanliness, musty stressing the effects of dampness, mildew, or age. a fusty attic the musty odor of a damp cellar",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"fetid",
|
|
"foul",
|
|
"frowsty",
|
|
"frowsy",
|
|
"frowzy",
|
|
"funky",
|
|
"fusty",
|
|
"musty",
|
|
"noisome",
|
|
"rank",
|
|
"reeking",
|
|
"reeky",
|
|
"ripe",
|
|
"smelly",
|
|
"stenchy",
|
|
"stinking",
|
|
"stinky",
|
|
"strong"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023844",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"maltreat":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to treat cruelly or roughly : abuse":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
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"emotionally maltreated and neglected for years by her husband, she had long ago resigned herself to a loveless marriage",
|
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"if you maltreat the puppy, we will take it away immediately",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Coincidentally, a landmark incident that led to the death of a Nigerian happened in 2009 in Guangzhou, where Nigerians were recently maltreated . \u2014 Abdul-gafar Tobi Oshodi, Quartz Africa , 31 May 2020",
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"Youngsters who live in neighborhoods with more bars or liquor stores are more likely to be maltreated . \u2014 Kunmi Sobowale, Scientific American , 1 July 2017",
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"Youngsters who live in neighborhoods with more bars or liquor stores are more likely to be maltreated . \u2014 Kunmi Sobowale, Scientific American , 1 July 2017",
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"Youngsters who live in neighborhoods with more bars or liquor stores are more likely to be maltreated . \u2014 Kunmi Sobowale, Scientific American , 1 July 2017",
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"Youngsters who live in neighborhoods with more bars or liquor stores are more likely to be maltreated . \u2014 Kunmi Sobowale, Scientific American , 1 July 2017",
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"Youngsters who live in neighborhoods with more bars or liquor stores are more likely to be maltreated . \u2014 Kunmi Sobowale, Scientific American , 1 July 2017",
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"Youngsters who live in neighborhoods with more bars or liquor stores are more likely to be maltreated . \u2014 Kunmi Sobowale, Scientific American , 1 July 2017",
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"Youngsters who live in neighborhoods with more bars or liquor stores are more likely to be maltreated . \u2014 Kunmi Sobowale, Scientific American , 1 July 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1708, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"partial translation of French maltraiter , from Middle French, from mal- + traiter to treat, from Old French traitier \u2014 more at treat entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"mal-\u02c8tr\u0113t",
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"\u02ccmal-\u02c8tr\u0113t"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"abuse",
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"brutalize",
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"bully",
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"ill-treat",
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"ill-use",
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"kick around",
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"manhandle",
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"mess over",
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"mishandle",
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"mistreat",
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"misuse"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-100352",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"malvoisie":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": malmsey":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French, from Middle French malvesie , from Malvesie Monemvasia":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u00a6malv\u02ccw\u00e4\u00a6z\u0113",
|
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"\u02c8malv\u0259(\u02cc)z\u0113"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114739",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
|
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"malware":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": software designed to interfere with a computer's normal functioning":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Company researchers further noticed that files used to install the malware on victim computers loaded other credential stealers, including ones called RedLine and Vidar. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"Attackers may try to install malware on your systems so that they can later be used as agents for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) strikes against high-value targets. \u2014 Neil Mcallister, PCMAG , 4 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Speaking to BleepingComputer last week, security vendor Kaspersky warned that a new group of hackers calling themselves \u2018PuzzleMaker\u2019 have been successful in chaining together Chrome zero-day bugs to install malware on Windows systems. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 19 June 2021",
|
|
"Some go beyond stealing credentials, and use those techniques to install malware inside customer service departments or even on individuals' devices. \u2014 Lily Hay Newman, Wired , 4 Feb. 2021",
|
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"This is probably not a virus or malware in the technical sense. \u2014 Chron , 2 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Most of those attacks came from Internet-of-Things devices infected with the open source Mirai botnet malware and lower-volume UDP protocol attacks. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 28 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Protect your computer from viruses and malware with one of many software options. \u2014 Leigh Shulman, Wired , 19 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Fraudsters are aiming to scam people out of personal information or install malware or spyware on devices. \u2014 Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press , 2 Dec. 2021"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1990, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"mal icious + -ware (as in software )":""
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8mal-\u02ccwer"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205321",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
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},
|
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"Maldives":{
|
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"type":[
|
|
"adjective or noun",
|
|
"geographical name"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
"low-lying islands (atolls) in the Indian Ocean south of the Laccadive Islands; a sultanate under British protection until 1965; now an independent member of the Commonwealth of Nations; capital Male area 115 square miles (298 square kilometers), population 392,500":[]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u02ccd\u012bvz also \u02c8mal-",
|
|
"\u02c8m\u022fl-\u02ccd\u0113vz",
|
|
"-divz"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-154855"
|
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},
|
|
"mallard":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a common and widely distributed wild duck ( Anas platyrhynchos ) of the northern hemisphere the males of which have a green head and white-ringed neck and which is the source of the domestic ducks":[]
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ma-l\u0259rd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Two slices of ham form a neck, while a pheasant and a mallard stand in for a shoulder that leads us to sausage fingers. \u2014 Natasha Gural, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"By the 1930s, the mallard was breeding in local areas and the population in Connecticut steadily increased. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Hours were lost to the ingenious Better Homes & Gardens cover, with Styles plopped in a pond or somesuch wearing a mallard sweater and boxer briefs; to say nothing of the daily delights of @harrysflorals on Instagram. \u2014 Michelle Ruiz, Vogue , 21 May 2022",
|
|
"In Connecticut, mallard courtship and mating occurs through late winter, with nest building in April. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Toward the end of the show, based on an internet meme in which realistic items are sliced into and revealed to be cake, Julian chose to construct a mallard decoy duck. \u2014 NBC News , 15 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The pair recently spoke with THR about their new project, which indeed included an intimacy coordinator for Wever and her mallard co-star, as well as their take, two years later, on GLOW\u2019s COVID-era cancellation. \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The outdoor workshop for junior and senior 4-H members will focus on duck identification, wing identification, habitat and food, mallard migration and geographic information system (GIS) technology, and duck banding. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 30 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Their goal on the outing was to attach a Global Positioning System/Global System for Mobile Communication tracking device on a hen mallard . \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 May 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Anglo-French mallart":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-174255"
|
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},
|
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"male-sterile":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": having male gametes lacking or nonfunctional":[
|
|
"male-sterile plants"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8m\u0101l-\u02c8ster-\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1921, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184608"
|
|
},
|
|
"mallardite":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": hydrous sulfate of manganese MnSO 4 .7H 2 O":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8mal\u0259(r)\u02ccd\u012bt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French, from Ernest Mallard \u20201894 French mineralogist + French -ite":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-192556"
|
|
},
|
|
"Malay Archipelago":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"geographical name"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"group of islands in southeastern Asia including Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi, the Moluccas, and Timor":[
|
|
"\u2014 usually considered to include also the Philippines and sometimes New Guinea"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8m\u0101-(\u02cc)l\u0101",
|
|
"m\u0259-\u02c8l\u0101"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193335"
|
|
},
|
|
"malt sugar":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": maltose":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The collective behind Stockholm niche perfumery Stora Skuggan attempts to bottle the mystery, and its blend of immortelle, fig leaf, and malt sugar is appropriately enigmatic. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 20 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"The second is disaccharides, which are just two of these single sugar molecules linked together: sucrose, or table sugar (glucose + fructose); lactose, or milk sugar (glucose + galactose); and maltose, or malt sugar (glucose + glucose). \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 24 June 2019"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1862, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193926"
|
|
},
|
|
"mallangong":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": platypus":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8mal\u0259n\u02ccg\u00e4\u014b"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"native name in Australia":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-201431"
|
|
},
|
|
"malleus":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the outermost of a chain of three small bones of the mammalian middle ear":[
|
|
"\u2014 see ear illustration"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ma-l\u0113-\u0259s",
|
|
"\u02c8mal-\u0113-\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Another becomes the incus bone that connects the malleus to the stapes. \u2014 David George Haskell, Wired , 8 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The smallest bones are inside your ear, and they are known as the hammer ( malleus ), stirrup (stapes), and anvil (incus). \u2014 Jason Bittel, Washington Post , 20 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"The auditory ossicles of the middle ear \u2013 the malleus , incus and stapes \u2013 are the tiniest bones in the human body. \u2014 Emily Matchar, Smithsonian , 18 Dec. 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin, from Latin, hammer":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1646, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-203250"
|
|
},
|
|
"mallet cutting":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": leaf-bud cutting":[],
|
|
": a hardwood cutting of current season's growth with a heel of the previous season's growth":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"mallet entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-205404"
|
|
},
|
|
"maldistribution":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": bad or faulty distribution : undesirable inequality or unevenness of placement or apportionment (as of population, resources, or wealth) over an area or among members of a group":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccmal-\u02ccdi-str\u0259-\u02c8by\u00fc-sh\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"In a September 23 speech, Roosevelt further identified industrial concentration and the maldistribution of income as underlying causes of underconsumption. \u2014 Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic , 7 May 2021",
|
|
"These trends in income distribution are significant in parsing the racial wealth gap because income distribution directly shapes the maldistribution of wealth across the races. \u2014 Adolph Reed Jr., The New Republic , 29 June 2020",
|
|
"In reality, the maldistribution of income across the races can supply a good part of the answer to this quandary. \u2014 Adolph Reed Jr., The New Republic , 29 June 2020",
|
|
"There\u2019d be photo ops galore, and a chance to showcase a practical fix for America\u2019s maldistribution of wealth and income. \u2014 John Case, The New Republic , 8 July 2019",
|
|
"The Electoral College, gerrymandering, and the maldistribution of senate seats allow the GOP to enjoy political power that\u2019s disproportionate to their voting support. \u2014 Matthew Yglesias, Vox , 15 Dec. 2018",
|
|
"The real issue: Fixing the maldistribution of health care is important, Nisarg A. Patel writes. \u2014 Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine , 10 July 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1895, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213756"
|
|
},
|
|
"Malay camphor":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": borneo camphor":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-224723"
|
|
},
|
|
"malladrite":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a sodium fluosilicate Na 2 SiF 6 occurring in minute hexagonal crystals in fumaroles in the crater of Vesuvius near Naples in Italy":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"m\u0259\u02c8l\u00e4\u02ccdr\u012bt",
|
|
"\u02c8mal\u0259\u02ccd-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Italian, from Alessandro Malladra \u20201944 Italian geologist + Italian -ite":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-232033"
|
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},
|
|
"Malay apple":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1822, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-234054"
|
|
},
|
|
"malachite green":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a green mineral that is a basic carbonate of copper used especially for making ornamental objects":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ma-l\u0259-\u02cck\u012bt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"There, slabs of marble are delicately inlaid with stones like lapis, malachite , jasper, and amethyst. \u2014 Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure , 14 June 2022",
|
|
"Having always loved the organic look and saturated colors of hard stones like malachite and turquoise, McHugh combined hardstones with diamonds and colored gemstones for this realm of designs. \u2014 Kyle Roderick, Forbes , 15 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Pieces of lapis lazuli, malachite or onyx are carved into shapes to fit as overlays onto the bridges, plates and bezels, or to serve as indexes. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 10 June 2021",
|
|
"The band of malachite surrounding the tourbillon and set into the hour disk is a variation on previous models. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 8 July 2021",
|
|
"The dining room was vaulted for dramatic effect, with stucco and intricate moldings layered on top to provide space for faux malachite in ocher frames. \u2014 Cynthia Frank, ELLE Decor , 22 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"According to Bulgari, each stone has its own special lore: black onyx serves as a protective shield and conduit to inner strength; lapis lazuli represents honor and possibility; green malachite is known as a stone of transformation. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 10 June 2021",
|
|
"All throughout the house, both actual malachite and fabric versions of it can be found on numerous pillows, tablecloths, carpets, walls, plates, and furniture. \u2014 Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful , 24 Sep. 2020",
|
|
"In addition to the customization options, premium hardware will be available through the Southern design duo Addison Weeks, who are known for incorporating gemstones like malachite and rose quartz into their pieces. \u2014 Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor , 24 Apr. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"alteration of Middle English melochites , from Latin molochites , from Greek molochit\u0113s , from moloch\u0113, malach\u0113 mallow":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1656, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-234934"
|
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},
|
|
"malfeasance":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official":[
|
|
"The investigation has uncovered evidence of corporate malfeasance ."
|
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]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccmal-\u02c8f\u0113z-\u1d4ans",
|
|
"\u02ccmal-\u02c8f\u0113-z\u1d4an(t)s"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"misbehavior",
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"misconduct",
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"misdoing",
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"wrongdoing"
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],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"The investigation has uncovered evidence of corporate malfeasance .",
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"a campaign to impeach the governor for malfeasance in office",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The House eventually did, and the Senate last week convicted him of two charges: committing a crime that caused someone's death and malfeasance for misleading investigators and misusing his office. \u2014 Stephen Groves, ajc , 27 June 2022",
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"The malfeasance charge passed with 31 votes, while all lawmakers voted to bar Ravnsborg from holding future office. \u2014 Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
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"The malfeasance charge \u2014 Ravnsborg also asked investigators what data could be found on his cellphone, among other things \u2014 sailed through with 31 votes. \u2014 Stephen Groves, Chicago Tribune , 22 June 2022",
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"The malfeasance charge covers a range of Ravnsborg's actions. \u2014 Fox News , 21 June 2022",
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"Yet the White House still wants to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, which is useless without a proper accounting for, and checks on, Iran\u2019s nuclear malfeasance . \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
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"But what really stands out in this year\u2019s glut of true crime are the depictions of wealthy scoundrels trying to get away with their own corporate malfeasance (while harming others in the process). \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 6 June 2022",
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"Critics have long argued that Cardinal Sodano abused that power and identified him as a dominant force for the secrecy and malfeasance that alienated many faithful from the hierarchy in Rome during John Paul II\u2019s pontificate. \u2014 New York Times , 28 May 2022",
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"Few people were paying attention when all the malfeasance was happening. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"mal- + obsolete feasance doing, execution":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1663, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-235440"
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},
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"Malachias":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": malachi":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccma-l\u0259-\u02c8k\u012b-\u0259s"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Late Latin, from Greek, from Hebrew Mal'\u0101kh\u012b":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1533, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-003154"
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},
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"malted milk":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a soluble powder prepared from dried milk and malted cereals":[],
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": a beverage made by dissolving malted milk in milk and usually adding ice cream and flavoring":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8m\u022fl-t\u0259d-"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"It's topped with chocolate malt frosting and sprinkled with pieces of malted milk balls. \u2014 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 4 Aug. 2021",
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"That ties back to Horlick\u2019s (a former malted milk business in Racine). \u2014 Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 30 July 2021",
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"The Milky Way candy bar was born in the North Loop in 1923 when Frank Mars and his son, Forrest, came up with an idea to create a candy bar that tasted like a malted milk shake, said Anderson. \u2014 David Chanen, Star Tribune , 4 June 2021",
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"Add the flour, malted milk powder and salt and whisk slowly until everything is combined, then whisk more vigorously until the batter is very thick, a full 45 seconds. \u2014 Staff Reports Star Tribune, Star Tribune , 21 Oct. 2020",
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"Executive pastry chef Thomas Gorczyca\u2019s winning dish was malted milk chocolate nitrogen ice cream in waffle cones with hazelnut praline layer cake. \u2014 Candace Jordan, chicagotribune.com , 12 Dec. 2019",
|
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"Sift remaining 1 tablespoon malted milk powder over the top. \u2014 Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 Dec. 2019",
|
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"Gonzalez\u2019s desserts are feasts for the eyes: One of malted milk chocolate custard with Calvados-poached pears and cocoa-nib praline ice cream practically prances across the plate. \u2014 Devra First, BostonGlobe.com , 2 Jan. 2018",
|
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"This past Christmas, Gonzalez sold cheese straws, malted milk balls and pecan logs in 25 stores. \u2014 Michelle Matthews, AL.com , 29 Mar. 2018"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1887, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-005004"
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},
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"malfeasant":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": one that is guilty of malfeasance":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"mal\u02c8f\u0113z\u1d4ant"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"from malfeasance , after such pairs as English assistance : such assistant":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-014022"
|
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},
|
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"malachite":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": a green mineral that is a basic carbonate of copper used especially for making ornamental objects":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8ma-l\u0259-\u02cck\u012bt"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"There, slabs of marble are delicately inlaid with stones like lapis, malachite , jasper, and amethyst. \u2014 Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure , 14 June 2022",
|
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"Having always loved the organic look and saturated colors of hard stones like malachite and turquoise, McHugh combined hardstones with diamonds and colored gemstones for this realm of designs. \u2014 Kyle Roderick, Forbes , 15 Sep. 2021",
|
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"Pieces of lapis lazuli, malachite or onyx are carved into shapes to fit as overlays onto the bridges, plates and bezels, or to serve as indexes. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 10 June 2021",
|
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"The band of malachite surrounding the tourbillon and set into the hour disk is a variation on previous models. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 8 July 2021",
|
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"The dining room was vaulted for dramatic effect, with stucco and intricate moldings layered on top to provide space for faux malachite in ocher frames. \u2014 Cynthia Frank, ELLE Decor , 22 Apr. 2021",
|
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"According to Bulgari, each stone has its own special lore: black onyx serves as a protective shield and conduit to inner strength; lapis lazuli represents honor and possibility; green malachite is known as a stone of transformation. \u2014 Carol Besler, Robb Report , 10 June 2021",
|
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"All throughout the house, both actual malachite and fabric versions of it can be found on numerous pillows, tablecloths, carpets, walls, plates, and furniture. \u2014 Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful , 24 Sep. 2020",
|
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"In addition to the customization options, premium hardware will be available through the Southern design duo Addison Weeks, who are known for incorporating gemstones like malachite and rose quartz into their pieces. \u2014 Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor , 24 Apr. 2020"
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"alteration of Middle English melochites , from Latin molochites , from Greek molochit\u0113s , from moloch\u0113, malach\u0113 mallow":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1656, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-014346"
|
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},
|
|
"malingerer":{
|
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"type":[
|
|
"intransitive verb",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work)":[
|
|
"His boss suspected him of malingering because of his frequent absences from work."
|
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]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"m\u0259-\u02c8li\u014b-g\u0259r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"His boss suspected him of malingering because of his frequent absences from work.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"But when workers take advantage of the manager\u2019s kindly nature to malinger or disrupt operations, the entire business is threatened. \u2014 Bill Conerly, Forbes , 19 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"The decision against Robert Krebs came after a psychologist determined Krebs didn\u2019t have a mental illness or cognitive impairment and was instead malingering to avoid prosecution for the robbery last year in Tucson. \u2014 Jacques Billeaud, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2019",
|
|
"On Monday, prosecutor Stuart Silberg said Ms. Ortega could have been malingering , or faking her psychiatric state. \u2014 Corinne Ramey, WSJ , 31 July 2017",
|
|
"The question is obviously especially consequential when deeming a person malingering means they could be put to death. \u2014 James Hamblin, The Atlantic , 5 May 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French malingre sickly":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1820, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-020523"
|
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},
|
|
"Malachi":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a prophetic book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture \u2014 see Bible Table":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ma-l\u0259-\u02cck\u012b"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Hebrew Mal'\u0101kh\u012b":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-035019"
|
|
},
|
|
"Mallarm\u00e9":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"biographical name"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"St\u00e9phane 1842\u20131898 French poet":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccma-\u02ccl\u00e4r-\u02c8m\u0101"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-035550"
|
|
},
|
|
"maltster":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a maker of malt for use in brewing or distilling":[
|
|
"Their ability to proceed properly depends upon the skills of the plant-breeder, the farmer, the maltster , the microbiologist and the brewer.",
|
|
"\u2014 Michael Jackson"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8m\u022flt-st\u0259r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Grain to glass: Craft malting facility Admiral Maltings will host a special tour featuring farmers, maltsters and brewers to give a sense of the full process of craft beer production, starting in the barley field. \u2014 Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com , 31 Jan. 2020",
|
|
"His taste buds piqued, Mr. Caron is playing with buckwheat, too, from another micro- maltster , Rabbit Hill. \u2014 William Bostwick, WSJ , 7 Sep. 2018",
|
|
"Now California is poised to get its first micro- maltster . \u2014 Jay R. Brooks, The Mercury News , 16 Mar. 2017",
|
|
"The seminars this year featured discussions on innovations in using fruit and vegetables in beers, the resurgence of ancient styles and the rise of local barley growers and maltsters . \u2014 John Frank, The Denver Post , 8 Jan. 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-035624"
|
|
},
|
|
"malt shop":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an ice-cream shop specializing in malted milks":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-043053"
|
|
},
|
|
"malinger":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"intransitive verb",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work)":[
|
|
"His boss suspected him of malingering because of his frequent absences from work."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"m\u0259-\u02c8li\u014b-g\u0259r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"His boss suspected him of malingering because of his frequent absences from work.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"But when workers take advantage of the manager\u2019s kindly nature to malinger or disrupt operations, the entire business is threatened. \u2014 Bill Conerly, Forbes , 19 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"The decision against Robert Krebs came after a psychologist determined Krebs didn\u2019t have a mental illness or cognitive impairment and was instead malingering to avoid prosecution for the robbery last year in Tucson. \u2014 Jacques Billeaud, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2019",
|
|
"On Monday, prosecutor Stuart Silberg said Ms. Ortega could have been malingering , or faking her psychiatric state. \u2014 Corinne Ramey, WSJ , 31 July 2017",
|
|
"The question is obviously especially consequential when deeming a person malingering means they could be put to death. \u2014 James Hamblin, The Atlantic , 5 May 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French malingre sickly":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1820, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-044824"
|
|
},
|
|
"male fern":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a fern ( Dryopteris filix-mas ) producing an oleoresin used in expelling tapeworms":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1562, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-051933"
|
|
},
|
|
"malefic":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": having malignant influence : baleful":[],
|
|
": malicious":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"m\u0259-\u02c8le-fik"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Expect a touch of the supernatural, malefic colleagues and plenty of eccentricity. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Sep. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latin maleficus wicked, mischievous, from male + -ficus -fic":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1652, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-053439"
|
|
},
|
|
"malter":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": maltster":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8m\u022flt\u0259(r)"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"malt entry 2 + -er":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-053543"
|
|
},
|
|
"malt":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"abbreviation",
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": grain (such as barley) softened by steeping in water, allowed to germinate, and used especially in brewing and distilling":[],
|
|
": malt liquor":[],
|
|
": malted milk":[],
|
|
": to convert into malt":[],
|
|
": to make or treat with malt or malt extract":[],
|
|
": to become malt":[],
|
|
": to make grain into malt":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8m\u022flt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"As the name implies, this single-cask single- malt scotch was distilled at Annandale in Scotland\u2019s Lowland region. \u2014 Jonah Flicker, Robb Report , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"Case in point is Zima, the clear, flavored malt beverage that Coors debuted in the early 1990s. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 July 2021",
|
|
"These tweaks include changes in brewing temperature, pH, amount of malt used, and even when and how ingredients are added. \u2014 Outside Online , 31 July 2019",
|
|
"The Puncheon cask malt whiskies impart their subtle notes essential to the delicate base of the Yamazaki Single Malt. \u2014 Larry Olmsted, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
|
|
"The rest of the menu\u2014featuring dishes like broccolini with miso butter and fried oysters with malt aioli and raspberry\u2014is all about fresh food that\u2019s meant to be shared. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 25 May 2022",
|
|
"Dave overheard him talking about his plight at the local malt shop and offered to give him a ride to REI. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"If a 311-liter bottle of top-notch single- malt Scotch can\u2019t top that, who knows what can. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"Said to trace its roots all the way back to the 1860s and a seaside fish and chips shop in Lancashire, England, the chip butty can be doused with optional condiments ranging from ketchup and malt vinegar to mayonnaise. \u2014 Terry Ward, CNN , 11 May 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"Brewing beer is only one reason people might malt grains like barley; throughout history, malted but unfermented grains have also been fed to infants being weaned, taken as tonics, or just eaten as a snack. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 5 June 2020",
|
|
"Grain to glass: Craft malting facility Admiral Maltings will host a special tour featuring farmers, maltsters and brewers to give a sense of the full process of craft beer production, starting in the barley field. \u2014 Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com , 31 Jan. 2020",
|
|
"This crisply hopped ale is brewed from barley grown in Maine and malted in South Egremont. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"Given its ideal climate for malting , Tassie\u2019s Whisky Trail is a good place to start. \u2014 Ewen Bell, National Geographic , 29 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"The research supplies will support a number of experiments, like a study of malting barley in microgravity to help adapt it for use on long-duration spaceflights and a study of how fire behaves in space. \u2014 Kelly Mccleary, CNN , 8 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"Per the press release, archaeologists think the pit was originally used for malting grain to brew beer between the second and third centuries. \u2014 Jason Daley, Smithsonian , 9 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"The barley grains were sent into space for a beer- malting experiment by Anheuser-Busch. \u2014 Fox News , 7 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"In addition, there are barley grains aboard the Dragon for a beer- malting experiment by Anheuser-Busch. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Dec. 2019"
|
|
],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Old English mealt ; akin to Old High German malz malt, Old English meltan to melt":"Noun"
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-054338"
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},
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"male orchis":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a Eurasian orchid ( Orchis mascula ) with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-055545"
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},
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"mallet":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a hammer with a typically barrel-shaped head: such as":[],
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": a tool with a large head for driving another tool or for striking a surface without marring it":[],
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": a long-handled wooden implement used for striking a ball (as in polo or croquet)":[],
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": a light hammer with a small rounded or spherical usually padded head used in playing certain musical instruments (such as a vibraphone)":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ma-l\u0259t"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"This was balanced atop a conga drum, and gently tapped with a mallet . \u2014 Anna Wiener, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
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"The commission should have its mallet at the ready. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022",
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"There are various types, including ball-peen, sledge and mallet , but the 16-ounce claw hammer, which has a head that is split and curved on one side, should handle most jobs and isn\u2019t too heavy to wield. \u2014 Laura Daily, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
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"With this classic toy, your child can experiment with different sounds by rolling the colorful balls down the xylophone slide or by hitting the keys with the mallet . \u2014 Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping , 5 May 2022",
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"The game consists of hitting your ball with the mallet through each of these pegs. \u2014 Ashley Dunne, Sunset Magazine , 15 Apr. 2022",
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"His flashbacks to the church\u2019s early days provide context in a manner more akin to tapping with a mallet than pounding with a sledgehammer \u2014 with some notable exceptions. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 Apr. 2022",
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"One janitor was beaten with a mallet in the bathroom last year where homeless men and women often bathe or use drugs. \u2014 Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times , 7 May 2022",
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"Inside the tiny, bright cafe, Qiu and co-owner Amy Kuang use a mallet to pound the fresh fruit by hand. \u2014 Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle , 8 Mar. 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English maillet , from Anglo-French, diminutive of mail hammer \u2014 more at maul":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-060024"
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},
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"male-pattern baldness":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": typical hereditary baldness in the male characterized by loss of hair on the crown and temples":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"For those facing male-pattern baldness , the pandemic both accelerated and accentuated the progression, some dermatologists say. \u2014 Callum Borchers, WSJ , 31 Mar. 2022",
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"Studies on which nonsurgical treatments work best for male-pattern baldness have been limited, leaving men at a loss as to the most effective solution. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 2 Feb. 2022",
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"In cases of male-pattern baldness , there's a complete loss of the hair follicle, meaning hair can never grow back in that spot naturally. \u2014 Emilia Benton, Health.com , 27 Sep. 2021",
|
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"Two small studies from Spain have also found a correlation between COVID-19 hospitalizations and male-pattern baldness , linked to the powerful androgen dihydrotestosterone (DHT). \u2014 TheWeek , 9 June 2020",
|
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"Unlike male-pattern baldness , female hair loss means a reduction in hair volume, making transplantation extremely difficult. \u2014 Ning Chao, Marie Claire , 1 May 2020",
|
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"Even better, what if the findings prove more effective than the scant two drugs on the market for male-pattern baldness (aka androgenetic alopecia) and were less painful than hair transplant surgery",
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"Last month, the president's physician revealed that Trump takes a drug to combat male-pattern baldness . \u2014 Jessica Estepa, USA TODAY , 23 Feb. 2018",
|
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"In addition to the cholesterol medicine, Mr. Trump takes small doses of aspirin for heart health and a small dose of Propecia, a medicine to treat male-pattern baldness . \u2014 Michael D. Shear And Lawrence K. Altman, M.d., New York Times , 16 Jan. 2018"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1953, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-061229"
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},
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"malt whiskey":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
|
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": scotch sense 3":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Below are tasting notes on the latest Teeling malt whiskey release. \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 15 Nov. 2021",
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"Dyson founded Tenmile Distillery in Wassaic, New York, to create a single- malt whiskey that would honor his Scottish grandfather. \u2014 WSJ , 25 Apr. 2022",
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"The inspiration for this malt whiskey came from two things, according to the brand. \u2014 Jonah Flicker, Robb Report , 24 Dec. 2021",
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"This is a stunning blend, crafted from a combination of 2-year-old Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey, 3-year-old Kentucky straight rye malt whiskey , 5-year-old Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey, and 15-year-old Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey. \u2014 Brian Freedman, Forbes , 30 Sep. 2021",
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"This is an excellent example of how American malt whiskey producers are crafting a whisky expression inspired by their Scottish counterparts, but at the same time uniquely American in taste and aroma. \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 23 Sep. 2021",
|
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"The largest producer of Irish malt whiskey is Bushmills in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 6 May 2021",
|
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"According to People, Prince Charles produces organic gin at his Cornwall estate, while the queen's Balmoral estate in Scotland distills single- malt whiskey . \u2014 Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR , 14 July 2020",
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"Dessie McKenzie, a hospitable Irishman, pours a wee dram of a tawny, single- malt whiskey for a visitor from America. \u2014 Smithsonian , 19 Dec. 2019"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1839, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-061647"
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},
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"male shield fern":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": male fern":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-070943"
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},
|
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"maltose":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a crystalline dextrorotatory fermentable sugar C 12 H 22 O 11 formed especially from starch by amylase":[]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8m\u022fl-\u02cct\u014ds, -\u02cct\u014dz",
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"\u02c8m\u022fl-\u02cct\u014ds",
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"-\u02cct\u014dz"
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"The whole duck is then cleaned, prepped, dried, glazed with maltose and spices, dried again, and roasted. \u2014 National Geographic , 18 Mar. 2020",
|
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"When mixed with water, starch in the flour is converted to the sugars glucose and maltose . \u2014 Tim Mcdonnell, Quartz , 24 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"The second is disaccharides, which are just two of these single sugar molecules linked together: sucrose, or table sugar (glucose + fructose); lactose, or milk sugar (glucose + galactose); and maltose , or malt sugar (glucose + glucose). \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 24 June 2019",
|
|
"After 25 generations, Dodd found that the starch-eating flies would no longer mate with the maltose eaters. \u2014 Carrie Arnold, Quanta Magazine , 4 June 2014",
|
|
"Check the label for ingredients like brown sugar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, invert sugar, lactose, malt syrup, maltose , molasses, raw sugar, sucrose, trehalose and/or turbinado sugar. \u2014 Rebecca Drudi, baltimoresun.com , 10 Sep. 2017",
|
|
"The dates contain a mixture of simple sugars, mostly fructose and glucose but also trace amounts of maltose and sucrose. \u2014 Tom Taylor, SI.com , 16 Aug. 2017"
|
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"French, from English malt entry 1":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1862, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-073237"
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},
|
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"malefactress":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a female malefactor":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"-tr\u0259\u0307s"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"malefactor + -ess":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-080257"
|
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},
|
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"Malayan tapir":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": a tapir ( Tapirus indicus ) that is blackish with a broad white area on the middle part of the body and is found in southern Myanmar and Thailand, Malaysia, and Sumatra":[
|
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"A young Malayan tapir , considered one of Southeast Asia's most endangered species, has arrived on long-term loan to the Minnesota Zoo \u2026",
|
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"\u2014 Paul Walsh, Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota) , 29 Dec. 2010"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1822, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-080715"
|
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},
|
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"malines":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": mechlin":[],
|
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": a fine stiff net with a hexagonal mesh that is usually made of silk or rayon and that is often used for veils":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"m\u0259-\u02c8l\u0113n"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"French, from Malines (Mechelen), Belgium":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-081222"
|
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},
|
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"malefice":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a piece of evil sorcery : an evil spell or enchantment":[
|
|
"a magic power working against mysterious malefices",
|
|
"\u2014 Joseph Conrad"
|
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],
|
|
": a piece of mischief : an evil deed":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8mal\u0259f\u0259\u0307s"
|
|
],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English, from Latin maleficium , from maleficus":""
|
|
},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-084207"
|
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},
|
|
"Malaceae":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"plural noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a family of shrubs and trees comprising members of the family Rosaceae (as the apple, quince, pear) that have the carpels united and adnate to the calyx tube":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"m\u0259\u02c8l\u0101s\u0113\u02cc\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin, from Malus , type genus + -aceae":""
|
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},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-101635"
|
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},
|
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"Malle":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"biographical name"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"Louis 1932\u20131995 French film director":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8m\u00e4l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-102540"
|
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},
|
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"malleability":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the quality or state of being malleable : such as":[],
|
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": capability of being shaped or extended by hammering, forging, etc.":[
|
|
"the malleability of tin"
|
|
],
|
|
": capability of being influenced or altered by external forces":[
|
|
"The malleability of memory \u2026 is the first reason why autobiographies should be taken with a grain of salt.",
|
|
"\u2014 Judith Rich Harris"
|
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]
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccma-l\u0259-",
|
|
"\u02ccmal-y\u0259-",
|
|
"\u02ccma-l\u0113-\u0259-\u02c8bi-l\u0259-t\u0113"
|
|
],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1644, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103807"
|
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},
|
|
"malar":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": of or relating to the cheek or the side of the head":[],
|
|
": zygomatic bone":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8m\u0101-l\u0259r",
|
|
"-\u02ccl\u00e4r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"About half of all people diagnosed with lupus end up developing this specific rash, also known as a malar rash\u00b2, according to the Johns Hopkins Lupus Center. \u2014 Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF , 21 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Also called a malar rash, the red skin looks like a sunburn. \u2014 NBC News , 22 Mar. 2018"
|
|
],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from New Latin m\u0101l\u0101ris, from Latin m\u0101la (usually in plural m\u0101lae ) \"lower part of the face, cheeks, jaws\" + -\u0101ris -ar ; m\u0101la perhaps going back to Italic *smaksla, going back to Indo-European *sm\u1e31-slo-/sleh 2 -, whence, from *sme\u1e31-, Old Irish smech \"chin,\" and, from *sme\u1e31- or *smo\u1e31- with a suffix *-r-, Lithuanian sm\u00e3kras, smakr\u00e0 \"chin,\" Albanian mjekr\u00eb \"beard, chin,\" Armenian mawrow-k\u02bc \"chin,\" Sanskrit \u015bma\u015bru- \"beard,\" Hittite zamakur, zamankur \"beard\" (with irregular z for \u0161 )":"Adjective",
|
|
"by ellipsis from malar bone":"Noun"
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1782, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
|
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"circa 1828, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-122549"
|
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},
|
|
"maleta":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a usually rawhide bag":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"m\u0259\u02c8l\u0101t\u0259"
|
|
],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Spanish, bag, purse, from Middle French malette , from Old French malete , from male bag + -ete -ette":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-124428"
|
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},
|
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"maltworm":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": tippler , toper":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-130811"
|
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},
|
|
"maltha":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a black viscid substance intermediate between petroleum and asphalt":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8malth\u0259"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"maltha from Latin, soft mixture of wax and pitch, from Greek maltha, malth\u0113 ; akin to Greek malthakos soft; malthite from maltha + -ite":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-140214"
|
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},
|
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"Malin Head":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"geographical name"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"cape on the Atlantic in County Donegal in the republic of Ireland":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ma-l\u0259n"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-145920"
|
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},
|
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"Malapterurus":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a genus consisting of the electric catfish":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"m\u0259\u02cclapt\u0259\u02c8ru\u0307r\u0259s"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"New Latin, irregular from malac- + pter- + -urus":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-155641"
|
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},
|
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"Malayan forge":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": a hand-operated forge with a vertical double piston bellows used especially in Malaysia":[]
|
|
},
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": an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of maltose to glucose":[]
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"-\u02cct\u0101z",
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"\u02c8m\u022fl-\u02cct\u0101s",
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"\u02c8m\u022fl-\u02cct\u0101s, -\u02cct\u0101z"
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"1890, in the meaning defined above":""
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"malt liquor":{
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Conant swills river water and lives on hot dogs, Tabasco sauce, and malt liquor . \u2014 Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Outside Online , 8 Apr. 2022",
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"The store won\u2019t sell nips, quarter pints, or 40 oz. bottles of malt liquor . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Oct. 2021",
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"Olde English 800 malt liquor was another brand Blitz-Weinhard owned and promoted at the time, eventually becoming the company\u2019s best seller. \u2014 oregonlive , 3 Aug. 2021",
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"While White Claw is derived from industrial malt liquor , Hoxie is made from California Chardonnay. \u2014 Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 June 2021",
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"Lifted Libations mixed drinks get their kick from organic vodka unlike Truly, White Claw and many other spiked sodas which use malt liquor . \u2014 Mike Dojc, Forbes , 28 May 2021",
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"But since many are made with cheap malt liquor and artifical sweeteners, Canteen Spirits unveiled a line of zero-sugar and zer0-carb vodka sodas in 2019. \u2014 Katie Chang, Forbes , 23 May 2021",
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"Hanks, who has gone to rehab and who discussed his cocaine and crack abuse in 2015, parades around with a half-empty bottle of malt liquor and wraps himself in the Jamaican flag, then shows off a massive pile of weed. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Apr. 2021",
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"Everyone is surrounded by soft twinkle-lights, and no one appears to be hiding a forty of malt liquor out of frame. \u2014 Zoe Si, The New Yorker , 16 Dec. 2020"
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"1693, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-191234"
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},
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"Malesherbiaceae":{
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"definitions":{
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": a family of plants (order Parietales) coextensive with the genus Malesherbia":[]
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"New Latin, from Malesherbia , type genus + -aceae":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-194127"
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": an alley used for pall-mall":[],
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": a usually public area often set with shade trees and designed as a promenade or as a pedestrian walk":[],
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": a usually paved or grassy strip between two roadways":[],
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": an urban shopping area featuring a variety of shops surrounding a usually open-air concourse reserved for pedestrian traffic":[],
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": a usually large suburban building or group of buildings containing various shops with associated passageways":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8m\u022fl",
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"especially British and for sense 1 \u02c8mal"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"boardwalk",
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"promenade",
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"walk"
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"examples":[
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"They spent the afternoon shopping at the mall .",
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"the pedestrian traffic through the grassy mall is heaviest during the summer lunch hours",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The mall that once functioned as the town's community hub is literally a shell of its former self, with a rusting metal structure covering a concrete slab where shoppers once browsed. \u2014 Anita Lee, ProPublica , 24 June 2022",
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"Many forget the mall was a dusty patch of dirt adjacent to rail yards before shovels hit the ground. \u2014 John Igliozzi, BostonGlobe.com , 1 June 2022",
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"For example, One Direction was one of the most fly boy bands of all time, but five guys at Madison Square Garden with incredible production value look much better than five guys at a mall with two mics that work. \u2014 Jeff Benjamin, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
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"The epic, three-story Italian food hall\u2019s first Bay Area location opens at the Westfield Valley Fair mall in San Jose at 5 p.m. on June 16. \u2014 Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle , 8 June 2022",
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"The two first appeared together at a discount mall . \u2014 Hilary Weaver, ELLE , 11 May 2022",
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"What's key for Draper-Livengood is that there will be leftovers when the sale concludes May 22 at the Laurel Park Place mall in Livonia. \u2014 Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press , 8 May 2022",
|
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"The future of e-commerce could be coming to a local mall near you. \u2014 Jinjoo Lee, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"Gunfire had erupted Saturday at a busy mall in the state capital, Columbia, about 90 miles north of Sunday\u2019s nightclub shooting. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 19 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"short for obsolete pall-mall mallet used in pall-mall":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1660, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-200632"
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},
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"malleabilization":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the process of malleableizing":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-(\u02cc)bil-",
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"-\u02ccl\u012bz-"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"malleabiliz- (from malleableize ) + -ation":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205348"
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},
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"mal di gomma":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a foot rot or collar rot of citrus plants caused by a fungus ( Phytophthora parasitica )":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"-g\u00e4m\u0259",
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"\u02ccmald\u0113\u02c8g\u014dm\u0259"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Italian, literally, gum disease":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211744"
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},
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"malt vinegar":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the product made by fermentation without distillation of an infusion of barley malt or cereals whose starch has been converted by malt":[]
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-222237"
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},
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"maladminister":{
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"transitive verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": incorrect administration (as of a drug)":[]
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},
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|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccmal-\u0259d-\u02ccmin-\u0259-\u02c8str\u0101-sh\u0259n",
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"\u02ccma-l\u0259d-\u02ccmi-n\u0259-\u02c8str\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"An election of every four years will prevent maladministration . Col. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 24 Jan. 2020",
|
|
"The two discussed how, at the Constitutional Convention, the framers discussed giving Congress the power to impeach the president for maladministration rather than high crimes or misdemeanors. \u2014 Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner , 23 Jan. 2020",
|
|
"Madison objected, on the ground that maladministration could mean just about anything. \u2014 Jill Lepore, The New Yorker , 21 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"Katyal believes the latter and, more important, that the president\u2019s actions crossed the critical but opaque line laid out by the Constitution\u2019s authors that separates maladministration from malice. \u2014 Jeffrey A. Engel, Washington Post , 19 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"The founders rejected maladministration as a basis for impeachment. \u2014 Justin Wingerter, The Denver Post , 5 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"Presidential constitutions require that legislators produce evidence of high crimes or maladministration to impeach the president (with a trial decided by the senate or by the supreme court, depending on the country). \u2014 An\u00edbal P\u00e9rez-li\u00f1\u00e1n, Washington Post , 26 May 2017",
|
|
"In fact, ever since Pence jumped into the co-pilot's seat next to President Crashcup, the Republicans in Indiana have broken a lot of rock trying to undo their former governor's acts of maladministration . \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 19 May 2017"
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|
],
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|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1639, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-230221"
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},
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"mal de si\u00e8cle":{
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"type":[
|
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"French noun phrase"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": world malaise : world-weariness":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"m\u00e4l-d\u0259-syekl\u1d4a"
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|
],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-231500"
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},
|
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"malignant melanoma":{
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": melanoma sense 2":[]
|
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Take the case of a 40-year old man with malignant melanoma who came to see me. \u2014 John Mulder, STAT , 3 July 2022",
|
|
"In July 2018, Paschal was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma on the bottom of his foot. \u2014 Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal , 30 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Incredible story of being diagnosed with malignant melanoma in 2018 and coming back to become a team captain and have a productive career, including 9.5 sacks last year. \u2014 Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press , 30 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Paschal was also diagnosed with malignant melanoma in 2018 and underwent three surgeries, but returned to play that season. \u2014 cleveland , 25 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"However, in August of 2018, a malignant melanoma lesion was discovered on his foot, and Paschal began immunotherapy treatment. \u2014 Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal , 9 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Paschal could be picked on day two of the NFL draft less than four years after undergoing immunotherapy treatments for a malignant melanoma . \u2014 Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal , 10 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"The team said he was diagnosed with type-2 malignant melanoma , a type of skin cancer that could be easily removed and treated because it was caught early on. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 3 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Shawn Keyes, 44, was prescribed fentanyl patches when he was diagnosed with malignant melanoma skin cancer while in prison in 2003. \u2014 Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY , 24 Oct. 2021"
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|
],
|
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|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1951, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-234218"
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},
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"Maltese cat":{
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a bluish gray domestic short-haired cat":[]
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001107"
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},
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"maladministration":{
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"type":[
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"noun",
|
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"transitive verb"
|
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],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccmal-\u0259d-\u02ccmin-\u0259-\u02c8str\u0101-sh\u0259n",
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"\u02ccma-l\u0259d-\u02ccmi-n\u0259-\u02c8str\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"An election of every four years will prevent maladministration . Col. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 24 Jan. 2020",
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|
"The two discussed how, at the Constitutional Convention, the framers discussed giving Congress the power to impeach the president for maladministration rather than high crimes or misdemeanors. \u2014 Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner , 23 Jan. 2020",
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|
"Madison objected, on the ground that maladministration could mean just about anything. \u2014 Jill Lepore, The New Yorker , 21 Oct. 2019",
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|
"Katyal believes the latter and, more important, that the president\u2019s actions crossed the critical but opaque line laid out by the Constitution\u2019s authors that separates maladministration from malice. \u2014 Jeffrey A. Engel, Washington Post , 19 Dec. 2019",
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|
"The founders rejected maladministration as a basis for impeachment. \u2014 Justin Wingerter, The Denver Post , 5 Dec. 2019",
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|
"Presidential constitutions require that legislators produce evidence of high crimes or maladministration to impeach the president (with a trial decided by the senate or by the supreme court, depending on the country). \u2014 An\u00edbal P\u00e9rez-li\u00f1\u00e1n, Washington Post , 26 May 2017",
|
|
"In fact, ever since Pence jumped into the co-pilot's seat next to President Crashcup, the Republicans in Indiana have broken a lot of rock trying to undo their former governor's acts of maladministration . \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 19 May 2017"
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],
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"1639, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002004"
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},
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"Malraux":{
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"type":[
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"biographical name"
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],
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"definitions":{
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"Andr\u00e9 1901\u20131976 French writer and art historian":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"mal-\u02c8r\u014d"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-010159"
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},
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"type":[
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": an offense against right or law : evil , wrong":[]
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"\u02c8m\u00e4l\u0259m"
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"Latin, from neuter of malus bad":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-010234"
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},
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"malevolous":{
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": malevolent":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin malevolus , from male badly + -volus (from velle )":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-015914"
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"MALS":{
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"type":[
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"master of arts in library science":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-023341"
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"Maltese cross":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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": a cross form\u00e9e":[],
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": a cross that resembles the cross form\u00e9e but has the outer face of each arm indented in a V \u2014 see cross illustration":[],
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": a Eurasian herb ( Lychnis chalcedonica ) of the pink family cultivated for its usually scarlet flowers":[]
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"1877, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024705"
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"malignant lymphoma":{
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