- Causing sleepiness or drowsiness; sleepy.
- Adjective
- Synonyms: calming, drowsy, sedative
- "Sleepy", from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is known for his soporific manner.
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Prevaricate
- To deliberately give a false impression; lie.
- Verb
- Synonyms: lie, fib, con
- The classic crossed fingers behind the back is a tell-tale sign of prevaricate.
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Reprehensible
- Deserving blame; worthy of blame.
- Adjective
- Synonyms: blamable, sinful, guilty
- The witness pointed to the reprehensible defendant.
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Penitent
- Feeling remorse; feeling guilt.
- Adjective
- Synonyms: sorry, contrite, sorrowful
- Artists sometimes depict penitent subjects in their works to reflect a guilty aspect of humanity.
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Rapacious
- Unusually greedy, predatory, or extorting.
- Adjective
- Synonyms: greedy, preying, marauding
- Pirates were known throughout the world for their rapacious nature.
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1 comment:
Ryan,
prevaricate is a verb. You are using it as a nound in your sentence (object of the preposition "of"). In order to make the correct usage, you would have to change the base word to "prevarication." (-1)
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