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  • 111Maja Thurup — is a short story by Charles Bukowski that is ostensibly about a South American tribesman with an enormous penis who is brought to Los Angeles by the woman anthropologist who has discovered him and become his lover... [citation needed] Of course,… …

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  • 112critical — I (crucial) adjective acute, anceps, chief, climacteric, climactic, commanding, considerable, deciding, decisive, determining, dubius, essential, eventful, exigent, far reaching, fateful, foremost, grave, imperative, important, imposing, key,… …

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  • 113criticism — I noun abuse, accusation, admonition, adverse comment, analysis, animadversion, aspersion, blame, carping, caviling, censure, charge, chiding, commentary, complaining, complaint, condemnation, contravention, critical examination, critical remarks …

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  • 114denunciation — I noun accusal, accusatio, accusation, anathema, aspersion, backbiting, blame, calumny, carping, castigation, censure, charge, chiding, commination, complaint, condemnation, contumely, coup de bee, criticism, damnation, decrial, defamation,… …

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  • 115diatribe — I noun abuse, abusive harangue, abusive language, accusation, act of berating, admonition, adverse comment, animadversion, backbiting, bitter harangue, bitter words, blame, carping, castigation, censure, chiding, complaining, condemnation,… …

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  • 116fractious — I adjective apt to quarrel, bad tempered, bearish, bickering, cantankerous, captious, carping, caviling, choleric, churlish, complaining, contentious, contrary, crabby, cranky, cross, cross grained, crusty, difficilis, difficult, disposed to… …

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  • 117petulant — I adjective acrimonious, annoyed, argumentative, bad tempered, bearish, cantankerous, captious, carping, cavilling, censorious, choleric, churlish, contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross tempered, crusty, curmudgeonly, difficult,… …

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  • 118querulous — I adjective bewailing, canting, captious, carping, censorious, clamorous, complaining, contentious, cross, difficult, difficult to please, discontented, disputatious, dissatisfied, exceptious, faultfinding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumbling …

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  • 119jetiquette — (JET.uh.kuht, ket) n. The rules or norms that govern correct or polite behavior while on board an airplane. Example Citation: British Airways wants to make flying a more relaxing experience and has produced a good manners guide called Jetiquette …

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  • 120Winters, Shelley — (1922– )    Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift in 1922 in St. Louis, Missouri, but was raised in Brooklyn, New York. She began her acting career early, in high school plays and in summer stock, before making her debut on the Great White Way …

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