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| causing death, destruction, or ruin, very harmful (e.g. baleful vices) |
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| government through bureaus run by non-elective officials; government officials collectively |
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| false and malicious statement calculated to hurt someone's reputation (e.g. The calumny in the article ruined the politician's career.) |
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| a person who delights in an art or science in an amateurish or superficial way (e.g. His occasional trips to the opera show he is a dilettante in the arts--i.e. a superficial follower.) |
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| disgusting or offensive, especially because excessive or insincere (e.g. fulsome praise of someone) |
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| too bright or glaring; showy (e.g. a garish dress) |
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| a long, noisy, or scolding speech (e.g. the harangues of Adolf Hitler) |
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| tearfully or effusively sentimental (e.g. An example of someone who would be described as maudlin is a person who has had a few drinks and is now tearfully weepy about her lost loves.) |
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composed of various colors or elements
(e.g. the motley colored dog) |
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| one who makes an ostentatious display of knowledge; one who gives undue attention to trivial details of learning but has little interest in practical affairs. (e.g. The pedant bored everyone to tears with his arrogant obsession with details.) |
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| very attentive to every detail of etiquette or behavior; very exact (e.g. My mother is a punctilious hostess.) |
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| present or appearing everywhere at the same time (e.g. For Europeans, Americans are ubiquitous travelers.) |
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