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blamable
Tue, 2 Dec 2008 05:00:00 GMT
DEFINITION: (adjective) Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious.
SYNONYMS: blameworthy, censurable, culpable.
USAGE: You are aware that I am no way blamable in this matter.
sacrilege
Mon, 1 Dec 2008 05:00:00 GMT
DEFINITION: (noun) Desecration, profanation, misuse, or theft of something sacred.
SYNONYMS: blasphemy, desecration, profanation.
USAGE: I entreat you, if you be a Christian gentleman, not to kill me, which will be committing grave sacrilege, for I am a licentiate and I hold first orders.
hobgoblin
Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT
DEFINITION: (noun) An object or a source of fear, dread, or harassment.
SYNONYMS: bugbear.
USAGE: But this encompassment of her own characterization...was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy--a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason.
