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Facetious

to treat serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor or to be flippant; glib; flippant; sardonic; mischievous;

Mick Hennessy

@mickado.bsky.social

I'm watching the apprentice with Sebastian Stan as trump and he just said "I was being facetious"

The idea that Trump could ever use that word correctly, has pulled me right out.

But is this a Mandela effect or was the man always incapable of coherent speech?

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Relegate

to send or put in an inferior position, place or condition; downgrade; lower; put down; move down

Laura

@theactivestick.bsky.social

Relegate the Boston Bruins

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Sardonic

characterized by bitter, scornful mocking; characterized by extreme and negative sarcasm; grimly mocking or cynical

W.D. Haverstock

@wdhaverstock.bsky.social

CHRONOLOGY 328: TAPCO / ATR 69
Cary Grant ... quips like Groucho Marx - Groucho must have been really influential. The leading men of the time, at least those who could do comedy, took much from his sardonic, almost whimsically absurd delivery ….
wdhaverstock.substack.com/p/the-story-...

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Pedantic

overly perfectionist; too fussy over minor details

hi im cathy

@waitwhoscathy.bsky.social

also does the valenrodya eye passive trigger with green coins too
it mentions unbreakables but like
it doesnt bring up excision coins
it prolly counts them as a subtype of red coins or sumn but like
yknow how pedantic this game is
id be surprised

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Prevaricate

speak or act in an evasive way (with the intent to deceive); to lie

AbsMcPherson

@absmac.bsky.social

Prevarication. Obfuscation. Avoidance (The Politicians Handbook) … listening to the Jess Wilson interview.

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Restive

unable to stay still or silent and becoming increasingly difficult to control (usually happening because of impatience, boredom or some sort of dissatisfaction) alternative definition exclusively when describing a horse: refusing to advance; stubornly standing still; moving backwards or sideways

Major Paincake

@majorpaincake.bsky.social

Grow restive

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Vernal

pertaining to spring; appearing in spring; spring-like; youthul; fresh; new

Alerts from NWS Grand Junction CO (UNOFFICIAL)

@gjt.nws-bot.us

VERNAL UT Oct 5
Climate Report:
High: 79
Low: 47
Precip: 0.0"
Snow: Missing
at Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:36:54 +0000 via IEMbot
Additional Details Here.

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Coagulate

to change from a fluid to something thicker

@antichristhunter.bsky.social

Oceanic coagulation after ice cap melt
Fueling bigger storm picture as tidal surge swells.
Rainfall intensified by 400%;
Eventual calorimeter evaporation of solution.
Nuclear accidents...war on the horizon.
Nature is just god whispering,
Tornadoes an angelic symphony
Gop not listening swimming in

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Quiescent

being quiet or still; inactive; motionless; at rest; in a state of inactivity or dormancy

arXiv astro-ph.GA Astrophysics of Galaxies

@astrophga-bot.bsky.social

Mondal, Chen, Saha, Lai, Shivaei, Algera, Vijarnwannaluk: PAH emission from star-forming and quiescent galaxies at $z=0.5-0.8$ probed by JWST/MIRI https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06639 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.06639 https://arxiv.org/html/2610.06639

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Flout

to show contempt or scorn at something

🍉 Vancouverismism 🍉

@vancouverismism.bsky.social

Law... Journalism... Politics...

Is the ANY arena Toronto City Council #Ward14 candidate Caryma Sa'd enters in which she's not an utter laughingstock?

Weird a struggling lawyer would so openly flout election signage rules which can be easily reported to 311 for removal & confiscation, though.

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