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lambaste

[Adult Video News] lambasted Hustler [porn mag] for having the temerity to question AVN's awards.

debacle

Sony's $3 billion Hollywood debacle is the latest in a series of setbacks for Japanese firms in the U.S.

fetid

he visualizes the landscape of Pauline's and Juliet's minds as a fetid garden...
review of film Heavens in Time mag. (?)

chide

...In all likelihood, Frost was not trying merely to evade the question but to chide his questioner into thinking for himself.

concoct

... the dreamer concocted his vision of grandeur...

misgiving

i don't have any misgivings in marrying her

expound

... expounded my ideas forthwith.

cogent

...But those authors have been a select group, who both have had something to say, and have been fluent enough to say it more or less cogently.

avarice

It's a seedy, cynical world view: people are motivated by greed, stupidity and sexual avarice.

contentious

belligerent, pugnacious

critique

I consider it required research for my critique of her manifesto...
Time Mag. ~1993. Carlin Romano.

effrontery

temerity, audacity, nerve, cheek, gall

hiatus

After a seven-year hiatus,...

pompous

pretentious, grandiose, puffy, stuffy, bloated

protean

... many people of protean interests,...

protocol

etiquette, propriety, decorum

quaint

The church's ideals of family, for example, strike me as, by turns, heroic, profound or quaint.

commend

The judge commended the jury for their patience and hard work.

gore

Americans now wallow in the horror and gore and take a guilty delight in killer's eluding capture.
Time Mag.

pithy

...Insert pithy maxim here...
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