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  • 11Cyril Briggs — Cyril Valentine Briggs (May 28, 1888, Nevis – October 18, 1966, Los Angeles, California) was an African Caribbean and African American writer and communist political activist born in the West Indies. He was influenced by political ideas which… …

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  • 12twaddle — twaddler, n. twaddly, adj. /twod l/, n., v., twaddled, twaddling. n. 1. trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious talk or writing. v.i. 2. to talk in a trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious manner; prate. v.t. 3. to utter as twaddle. [1540 50; var. of… …

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  • 13absurd — Synonyms and related words: Pickwickian, a bit thick, a bit thin, abnormal, amusing, anomalous, asinine, balmy, barred, beyond belief, bizarre, childish, closed out, cockamamie, comic, contrary to reason, crazy, curious, daft, disproportionate,… …

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  • 14foolish — Synonyms and related words: Pickwickian, absurd, airy, apish, arch, asinine, batty, befooled, beguiled, bemused, besotted, beyond belief, bizarre, blockheaded, boneheaded, brainless, brash, buffoonish, catchpenny, cockamamie, cockeyed, confused,… …

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  • 15nonsensical — Synonyms and related words: Pickwickian, absurd, asinine, askew, beyond belief, bizarre, cockamamie, crazy, dumb, extravagant, fantastic, fool, foolish, grotesque, high flown, idiotic, imbecilic, incredible, irrational, laughable, loony,… …

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  • 16rubbishy — Synonyms and related words: Pickwickian, absurd, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, despicable, foolish, gaudy, gimcracky, mean, meretricious, miserable, nonsensical, paltry, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful …

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  • 17silly — Synonyms and related words: Pickwickian, absurd, airy, apish, asinine, balmy, batty, bedazzled, befooled, beguiled, benumbed, besotted, blockhead, bonehead, booby, brainless, buffoonish, catchpenny, childish, clod, clot, cockeyed, crazy,… …

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  • 18trashy — Synonyms and related words: NG, Pickwickian, absurd, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, despicable, foolish, gaudy, gimcracky, good for naught, good for nothing, junk, junky, mean, meretricious,… …

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  • 19Unmeaningness — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Absence of meaning. < N PARAG:Unmeaningness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 unmeaningness unmeaningness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 scrabble scrabble GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 empty sound empty sound dead letter vox et praeterea nihil =&GT …

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  • 20mud — (n.) mid 14c., cognate with and probably from M.L.G. mudde, M.Du. modde thick mud, from P.Gmc. *mud from PIE * (s)meu /*mu [Buck], found in many words denoting wet or dirty (Cf. Gk. mydos damp, moisture, O.Ir. muad cloud, Pol. muЕ‚ slime, Skt …

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