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- Jingoist
- one who boasts about his patriotism and favors a warlike policy.
- lothario
- rake; seducer; lover. Lothario was an amorous character in 18th century play, the fair penitent.
- maverick
- one who acts independantly.
- nemesis
- agent of retribution; just punishment.
- philanderer
- one who makes love insincerely, one who engages in passing love affairs
- Philippic
- a bitter verbal attack.
- Procrustean
- designed to secure conformity;drastic
- protean
- changeable, taking on different forms
- phyrrhic victory
- a victory that is exceptionally costly
- quixotic
- romanticaly idealistic; impractical.
- saturnine
- sluggish, gloomy or grave. the planet saturn is so far from the sun that it is thought to be cold and dismal
- solecism
- substandard use of words, violation of good manners
- spoonerism
- an unintentional exchange of sounds
- sybarite
- one who is fond of luxury and soft living
- tawdry
- cheap, guady, showy
- acidulous
- somewhat acid or sour
- avarcious
- excessively greedy
- baleful
- deadly, sinister
- bellicose
- warlike, of quarrelsome nature
- bilious
- bad tempered, bitter
- bumptious
- arrogant, disagreeably conceited
- captious
- critical, quick to find fault
- churlish
- rude, surly
- complaisant
- willing to please, tending to consent to others wishes
- contrite
- crushed in spirit by a feeling of guilt
- convivial
- festive, sociable
- craven
- cowardly
- debonair
- courteous, gracious and having sophisticated charm
- dyspeptic
- grouchy, gloomy, a person who suffers from dypepsia or indigestion
- lachrymose
- sad mournful, inclined to shed many tears