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moribund
Meaning:
Being in the state of dying; approaching death; being in the state of inactivity or obsolescence; in terminal decline
Usage:
- He is an actor who is trying to revive his moribund career
- The peace talks are moribund
- In the moribund patient deepening stupor and coma are the usual preludes to death
- Try though he may, he just can’t seem to breathe new life into his moribund career
highbinder
Meaning:
A corrupt politician; an unscrupulous person, especially a corrupt politician; an assassin, especially one belonging to a Chinese- American criminal organization
Usage:
- It is important to print some news about these political highbinders and about the big-time thieves
- We are not aware of the presence of highbinders among the Chinese population
dastardly
Adjective
Meaning:
Cowardly; chickenhearted; cowardly, pusillanimous; spineless; unheroic
Usage:
- That was a dastardly attack on innocent civilians
- His dastardly conduct in a critical moment haunted him for the rest of his life
sweven
Noun
Meaning:
Dream, vision; a vision seen in sleep;
Usage:
He saw a grimly sweven last night
vaniloquent
Adjective
Meaning:
Speaking only of oneself especially egotistically
Usage:
I had to drop my membership to that country club as every conversation was nothing more than vaniloquent flapdoodle
flapdoodle
Noun
Meaning:
Nonsense; flummadiddle
Usage:
- The speech was a lot of flapdoodle about the economy
- A clear-eyed assessment of the problem minus the usual flapdoodle was required
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