Related:

• PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Pig, n.: An animal (Porcus omnivorous) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite
  which, however, is inferior in scope, for it balks at pig....
• Male, n. A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex.
  The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man....
• DICTATOR, n. The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music.
  The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization....
• DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...