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  • 21slop|py — «SLOP ee», adjective, pi|er, pi|est. 1. very wet; slushy: »sloppy ground, sloppy weather. 2. splashed or soiled with liquid: »a sloppy table, a floor sloppy with suds …

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  • 22Exit Wounds (Torchwood) — Doctorwhobox number = 26 serial name = Exit Wounds caption = Jack and Gwen mourn for Tosh, who bled to death. show = TW type = episode cast = * John Barrowman – Captain Jack Harkness * Eve Myles – Gwen Cooper * Burn Gorman – Owen Harper * Naoko… …

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  • 23France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …

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  • 24Icelandic literature — Introduction       body of writings in Icelandic, including those from Old Icelandic (also called Old Norse) through Modern Icelandic.       Icelandic literature is best known for the richness of its classical period, which is equivalent in time… …

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  • 25maudlin — maudlinism, n. maudlinly, adv. maudlinness, n. /mawd lin/, adj. 1. tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental: a maudlin story of a little orphan and her lost dog. 2. foolishly or mawkishly sentimental because of drunkenness. [1500 10;… …

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  • 26mawk´ish|ness — mawk|ish «M kihsh», adjective. 1. sickly sentimental; weakly emotional: »The portrait of Lady Mendl is sharp without being unkind and sentimental without being mawkish (Harper s). 2. sickening; nauseating: »If I would drink water, I must quaff… …

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  • 27mawk´ish|ly — mawk|ish «M kihsh», adjective. 1. sickly sentimental; weakly emotional: »The portrait of Lady Mendl is sharp without being unkind and sentimental without being mawkish (Harper s). 2. sickening; nauseating: »If I would drink water, I must quaff… …

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  • 28mawk|ish — «M kihsh», adjective. 1. sickly sentimental; weakly emotional: »The portrait of Lady Mendl is sharp without being unkind and sentimental without being mawkish (Harper s). 2. sickening; nauseating: »If I would drink water, I must quaff the mawkish …

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  • 29Gushing — Gush ing, a. 1. Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters. Gushing blood. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection;… …

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  • 30maudlin — adjective Etymology: alteration of Mary Magdalene; from her depiction as a weeping penitent Date: 1509 1. drunk enough to be emotionally silly 2. weakly and effusively sentimental …

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