Adj Quotes - page 2

Defenceless, adj. Unable to attack. (Ambrose Bierce)
Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves. View quote
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INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence. View quote
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MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important. View quote
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CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach. View quote
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PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it. View quote
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LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. View quote
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OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. View quote
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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. View quote
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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself. View quote
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GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone. (Ambrose Bierce)
PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment. View quote
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CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain. View quote
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PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. View quote
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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. View quote
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PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it. View quote
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HONORABLE, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable as, 'the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' View quote
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PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost. View quote
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MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable ... Commonly Saxon that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions. View quote
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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay. View quote
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MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea. (Ambrose Bierce)
PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. View quote
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DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears. View quote
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IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. View quote
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INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things. View quote
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