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• MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune.
  Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.
  The sarcophagus known to modern obsequiographers is commonly a product of the carpenter's art....
• PRECIPITATE, adj. Anteprandial. Precipitate in all, this sinner Took action first, and then his dinner.
• MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence.
  A term of contempt. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• HERS, pron. His. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• DEFENCELESS, adj. Unable to attack. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LAWFUL, adj. Compatible with the will of a judge having jurisdiction.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...