Related:

• Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedne
  and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples....
• 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...
• OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...