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- fetish
- # An object that is believed to have magical or spiritual powers, especially such an object associated with animistic or shamanistic religious practice; an abnormally obsessive preoccupation or attachment; a fixation
- connive
- To cooperate secretly in an illegal or wrongful action; collude
- subvert
- To destroy completely; ruin; to undermine the character, morals, or allegiance of; corrupt
- coquette
- A woman who makes teasing sexual or romantic overtures; a flirt
- enjoined
- To direct or impose with authority and emphasis; to prohibit or forbid
- subtle
- So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; difficult to understand; abstruse
- seducer
- To lead away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to induce to engage in sex
- grotesque
- Characterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion, as of appearance or manner; outlandish or bizarre, as in character or appearance
- misfit
- Something of the wrong size or shape for its purpose
- degenerates
- Having declined, as in function or nature, from a former or original state; having fallen to an inferior or undesirable state, especially in mental or moral qualities
- sadist
- The deriving of sexual gratification or the tendency to derive sexual gratification from inflicting pain or emotional abuse on others; the deriving of pleasure, or the tendency to derive pleasure, from cruelty
- latent
- Present or potential but not evident or active
- louts
- An awkward and stupid person; an oaf
- oaf
- A person regarded as stupid or clumsy
- puritanical
- Rigorous in religious observance; marked by stern morality
- neurotic
- Of, relating to, or affected with a neurosis
- philistine
- A smug, ignorant, especially middle-class person who is regarded as being indifferent or antagonistic to artistic and cultural values; one who lacks knowledge in a specific area
- literary
- Of, relating to, or dealing with literature; appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing; bookish or pedantic
- bore
- To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill; to form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing
- aberrant
- Deviating from the proper or expected course; deviating from what is normal; untrue to type
- pugnacity
- Combative in nature; belligerent
- dispirited
- To lower in or deprive of spirit; dishearten
- assertion
- Something declared or stated positively, often with no support or attempt at proof
- pronouncement
- A formal expression of opinion; a judgment; an authoritative statement
- roistered
- To engage in boisterous merrymaking; revel noisily