Adj Quotes
67 quotes by 3 authors
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RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.
— Ambrose Bierce
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CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, _Cogito ergo sum_ --whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One…
— Ambrose Bierce
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FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to be famous aspired. Content? Well, his grill has a plating…
— Ambrose Bierce
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LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
— Ambrose Bierce
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