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poor diction
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bad taste
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Babbittry
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barbarism
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barbarousness
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bombasticness
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bourgeois taste
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cacology
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camp
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campiness
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clumsiness
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coarseness
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cumbrousness
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dysphemism
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gracelessness
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grossness
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harshness
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high camp
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ill-balanced sentences
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impropriety
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impurity
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inappropriateness
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inconcinnity
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incorrectness
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indecency
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indecorousness
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indecorum
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indelicacy
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inelegance
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inelegancy
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infelicity
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kitsch
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lack of finish
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lack of polish
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leadenness
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low camp
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philistinism
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pompousness
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ponderousness
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poor diction
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poor taste
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pop
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pop culture
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roughness
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rudeness
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sesquipedalianism
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sesquipedality
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slipshod construction
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stiltedness
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tastelessness
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turgidity
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unaestheticism
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unaestheticness
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unbecomingness
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uncouthness
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uneuphoniousness
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unfittingness
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ungracefulness
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unrefinement
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unseemliness
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unsuitability
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unsuitableness
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unwieldiness
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vulgar taste
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vulgarism
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vulgarity
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vulgarness
vulgarism
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Babbittry
,
Gothicism
,
bad taste
,
barbarism
,
barbarousness
,
bombasticness
,
bourgeois taste
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
camp
,
campiness
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
colloquialism
,
corruption
,
crudeness
,
cumbrousness
,
dysphemism
,
gracelessness
,
grossness
,
harshness
,
heaviness
,
high camp
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
impropriety
,
impurity
,
inappropriateness
,
inconcinnity
,
incorrectness
,
indecency
,
indecorousness
,
indecorum
,
indelicacy
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
infelicity
,
kitsch
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
leadenness
,
localism
,
low camp
,
philistinism
,
pompousness
,
ponderousness
,
poor diction
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poor taste
,
pop
,
pop culture
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roughness
,
rudeness
,
sesquipedalianism
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sesquipedality
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slang
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slipshod construction
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solecism
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stiltedness
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taboo word
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tastelessness
,
turgidity
,
unaestheticism
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unaestheticness
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unbecomingness
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uncouthness
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uneuphoniousness
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unfittingness
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ungracefulness
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unrefinement
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unseemliness
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unsuitability
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unsuitableness
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unwieldiness
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vernacularism
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vulgar taste
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vulgarity
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vulgarness
unlikelihood
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the improbability of a specified outcome
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bare possibility
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dark horse
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doubtfulness
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dubiousness
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faint likelihood
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fighting chance
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gambling chance
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hardly a chance
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hundred-to-one shot
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implausibility
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improbability
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incredibility
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little chance
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little expectation
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little opportunity
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long odds
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long shot
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off chance
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outside chance
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poor bet
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poor lookout
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poor possibility
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poor prospect
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questionableness
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remote possibility
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slim chance
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small chance
ghetto dwellers
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chronic poor
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chronic poverty area
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depressed class
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depressed population
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outcasts
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poverty subculture
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slum-dwellers
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the disadvantaged
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the dispossessed
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the distressed
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the down-and-out
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the forgotten man
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the have-nots
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the needy
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the other America
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the poor
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the powerless
,
the underprivileged
,
the urban poor
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underdeveloped nation
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welfare rolls
small chance
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related words >
bare possibility
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dark horse
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doubtfulness
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dubiousness
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equivalent odds
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even break
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even chance
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faint likelihood
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fighting chance
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gambling chance
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good chance
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hardly a chance
,
hundred-to-one shot
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implausibility
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improbability
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incredibility
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little chance
,
little expectation
,
little opportunity
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long odds
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long shot
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no chance
,
odds
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off chance
,
outside chance
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poor bet
,
poor lookout
,
poor possibility
,
poor prospect
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price
,
questionableness
,
remote possibility
,
short odds
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slim chance
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square odds
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unlikelihood
improbability
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the quality of being improbable; "impossibility should never be confused with improbability"; "the improbability of such rare coincidences"
related words >
abnormality
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anomaly
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bare possibility
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conversation piece
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curio
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curiosity
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dark horse
,
exception
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fighting chance
,
gambling chance
,
hardly a chance
,
hundred-to-one shot
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inexpectance
,
inexpectancy
,
inexpectation
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little chance
,
little opportunity
,
long odds
,
long shot
,
museum piece
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no expectation
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nonesuch
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nonexpectation
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oddity
,
off chance
,
outside chance
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poor bet
,
poor lookout
,
poor possibility
,
poor prospect
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prodigiosity
,
prodigy
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rarity
,
remote possibility
,
slim chance
,
small chance
,
strange thing
,
the unforeseen
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the unlooked-for
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unanticipation
,
unexpectedness
,
unforeseeableness
,
unlikelihood
,
unpredictability
,
unpredictableness
,
unpreparedness
,
unreadiness
off chance
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bare possibility
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chance
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conceivability
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conceivableness
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contingency
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dark horse
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even chance
,
eventuality
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fighting chance
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gambling chance
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good chance
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good possibility
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hardly a chance
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hope
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hundred-to-one shot
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improbability
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likelihood
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little chance
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little opportunity
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long odds
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long shot
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outside chance
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outside hope
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poor bet
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poor lookout
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poor possibility
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poor prospect
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possibility
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possibleness
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potential
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potentiality
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probability
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prospect
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remote possibility
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slim chance
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small chance
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small hope
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the attainable
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the feasible
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the possible
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thinkability
,
thinkableness
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unlikelihood
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virtuality
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what is possible
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what may be
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what might be
outside chance
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related words >
bare possibility
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chance
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conceivability
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conceivableness
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contingency
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dark horse
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even chance
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eventuality
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fighting chance
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gambling chance
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good chance
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good possibility
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hardly a chance
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hope
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hundred-to-one shot
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improbability
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likelihood
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little chance
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little opportunity
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long odds
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long shot
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off chance
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outside hope
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poor bet
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poor lookout
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poor possibility
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poor prospect
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possibility
,
possibleness
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potential
,
potentiality
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probability
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prospect
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remote possibility
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slim chance
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small chance
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small hope
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the attainable
,
the feasible
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the possible
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thinkability
,
thinkableness
,
unlikelihood
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virtuality
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what is possible
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what may be
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what might be
indigent
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related words >
almsman
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almswoman
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bankrupt
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beggar
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beggared
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beggarly
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bereaved
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bereft
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casual
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charity case
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deprived
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destitute
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disadvantaged
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down-and-out
,
down-and-outer
,
flat broke
,
fleeced
,
ghettoized
,
hard up
,
hardcase
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impecunious
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impoverished
,
in need
,
in rags
,
in want
,
mendicant
,
necessitous
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needy
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on relief
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out at elbows
,
pauper
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pauperized
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penniless
,
penniless man
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penurious
,
poor
,
poor devil
,
poor man
,
poorling
,
poverty-stricken
,
short
,
starveling
,
strapped
,
stripped
,
underprivileged
,
welfare client
bare possibility
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related words >
chance
,
conceivability
,
conceivableness
,
contingency
,
dark horse
,
doubtfulness
,
dubiousness
,
even chance
,
eventuality
,
faint likelihood
,
fighting chance
,
gambling chance
,
good chance
,
good possibility
,
hardly a chance
,
hope
,
hundred-to-one shot
,
implausibility
,
improbability
,
incredibility
,
likelihood
,
little chance
,
little expectation
,
little opportunity
,
long odds
,
long shot
,
off chance
,
outside chance
,
outside hope
,
poor bet
,
poor lookout
,
poor possibility
,
poor prospect
,
possibility
,
possibleness
,
potential
,
potentiality
,
probability
,
prospect
,
questionableness
,
remote possibility
,
slim chance
,
small chance
,
small hope
,
the attainable
,
the feasible
,
the possible
,
thinkability
,
thinkableness
,
unlikelihood
,
virtuality
,
what is possible
,
what may be
,
what might be
implausibility
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the quality of provoking disbelief
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bare possibility
,
credibility gap
,
doubtfulness
,
dubiousness
,
faint likelihood
,
improbability
,
inconceivability
,
incredibility
,
little expectation
,
poor possibility
,
poor prospect
,
questionableness
,
small chance
,
unbelievability
,
unbelievableness
,
unlikelihood
,
unreliability
,
untenableness
diction
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articulation
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delivery
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elocution
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enunciation
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expression
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expressiveness
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inflection
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intonation
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language
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oratory
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parlance
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phrase
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phraseology
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phrasing
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presentation
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pronunciation
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rhetoric
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speech
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terminology
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usage
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verbalism
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verbiage
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vocabulary
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wordage
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wording
needy
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needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy"
demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree
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beggared
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beggarly
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bereaved
,
bereft
,
chronic poverty area
,
dead
,
depressed population
,
deprived
,
destitute
,
disadvantaged
,
down-and-out
,
flat
,
fleeced
,
ghetto-dwellers
,
ghettoized
,
hard up
,
impecunious
,
impoverished
,
in need
,
in rags
,
in reduced circumstances
,
in want
,
indigent
,
insolvent
,
mendicant
,
necessitous
,
on relief
,
on welfare
,
out at elbows
,
pauperized
,
penniless
,
penurious
,
pinched
,
poor
,
poverty-stricken
,
starveling
,
strapped
,
stripped
,
the disadvantaged
,
the distressed
,
the down-and-out
,
the forgotten man
,
the have-nots
,
the needy
,
the other America
,
the poor
,
the underprivileged
,
the urban poor
,
underdeveloped nation
,
underprivileged
,
unprosperous
,
up against it
,
welfare rolls
dark horse
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a racehorse about which little is known
a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly
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also-ran
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aspirant
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baby kisser
,
bare possibility
,
candidate
,
defeated candidate
,
dud
,
enigma
,
favorite son
,
fighting chance
,
frontier
,
frontiers of knowledge
,
gambling chance
,
hardly a chance
,
hopeful
,
hundred-to-one shot
,
improbability
,
lame duck
,
little chance
,
little opportunity
,
long odds
,
long shot
,
matter of ignorance
,
mystery
,
n
,
off chance
,
office seeker
,
outside chance
,
political hopeful
,
poor bet
,
poor lookout
,
poor possibility
,
poor prospect
,
presidential timber
,
puzzle
,
remote possibility
,
riddle
,
running mate
,
sealed book
,
slim chance
,
small chance
,
stalking-horse
,
terra incognita
,
the incalculable
,
the strange
,
the unfamiliar
,
the unknowable
,
the unknown
,
unexplored ground
,
unexplored territory
,
unknown quantity
,
unlikelihood
,
x
,
z
pauper
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a person who is very poor
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almsman
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almswoman
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bankrupt
,
beggar
,
break
,
bum
,
bust
,
casual
,
charity case
,
down-and-out
,
down-and-outer
,
fold up
,
hardcase
,
hobo
,
impoverish
,
indigent
,
insolvent
,
lazarus
,
mendicant
,
pauperize
,
penniless man
,
poor devil
,
poor man
,
poorling
,
starveling
,
tramp
,
vagrant
,
welfare client
long shot
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a venture that involves great risk but promises great rewards
a contestant that is unlikely to win
related words >
accident
,
adventure
,
bare possibility
,
boom shot
,
casualty
,
chance hit
,
close-up
,
contingency
,
contingent
,
dark horse
,
deuce shot
,
equivalent odds
,
even break
,
even chance
,
fighting chance
,
fluke
,
follow-focus shot
,
fortuity
,
freak accident
,
full shot
,
gambling chance
,
good chance
,
group shot
,
hap
,
happening
,
happenstance
,
hardly a chance
,
hazard
,
hundred-to-one shot
,
improbability
,
kinescope
,
little chance
,
little opportunity
,
long odds
,
lucky shot
,
matte shot
,
medium shot
,
motion picture
,
no chance
,
odds
,
off chance
,
outside chance
,
pan shot
,
panoramic shot
,
poor bet
,
poor lookout
,
poor possibility
,
poor prospect
,
price
,
process shot
,
rap shot
,
remote possibility
,
retake
,
short odds
,
shot
,
slim chance
,
small chance
,
square odds
,
take
,
travel shot
,
trucking shot
,
unlikelihood
,
zoom shot
wording
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the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton
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mode
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talk
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use of words
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verbalism
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verbiage
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wordage
almsman
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related words >
allottee
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almswoman
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annuitant
,
assign
,
assignee
,
bankrupt
,
beggar
,
beneficiary
,
casual
,
charity case
,
devisee
,
donee
,
down-and-out
,
down-and-outer
,
feoffee
,
grantee
,
hardcase
,
indigent
,
legatary
,
legatee
,
patentee
,
pauper
,
penniless man
,
pensionary
,
pensioner
,
poor devil
,
poor man
,
poorling
,
starveling
,
stipendiary
,
welfare client
barbarism
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related words >
Gothicism
,
Irish bull
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Neanderthalism
,
age of ignorance
,
animality
,
antiphrasis
,
bad taste
,
barbarity
,
barbarousness
,
benightedness
,
benightment
,
bestiality
,
bombasticness
,
brutality
,
brutishness
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
colloquialism
,
corruption
,
crudeness
,
cumbrousness
,
dark
,
dark age
,
darkness
,
dysphemism
,
error
,
foreignism
,
gracelessness
,
grossness
,
harshness
,
heathenism
,
heaviness
,
ill breeding
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
impoliteness
,
impropriety
,
impurity
,
incivility
,
inconcinnity
,
incorrectness
,
indecorousness
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
infelicity
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
lapse
,
leadenness
,
localism
,
malaprop
,
malapropism
,
misconstruction
,
missaying
,
misusage
,
misuse
,
neologism
,
paganism
,
philistinism
,
pompousness
,
ponderousness
,
poor diction
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
savagery
,
savagism
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
shibboleth
,
slang
,
slip
,
slipshod construction
,
solecism
,
spoonerism
,
stiltedness
,
taboo word
,
tastelessness
,
troglodytism
,
turgidity
,
uncivilizedness
,
uncouthness
,
uncultivatedness
,
uncultivation
,
unculturedness
,
unenlightenment
,
uneuphoniousness
,
ungracefulness
,
ungrammaticism
,
unrefinement
,
unseemliness
,
unwieldiness
,
vernacularism
,
vulgarism
,
vulgarity
,
wildness
parlance
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a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
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choice of words
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composition
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dialect
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diction
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expression
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formulation
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grammar
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idiom
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jargon
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language
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langue
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lingo
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lingua
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locution
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parole
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personal usage
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phrase
,
phraseology
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phrasing
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rhetoric
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speech
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talk
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tongue
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usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
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verbiage
,
wordage
,
wording
wordage
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choice of words
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composition
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dialect
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diction
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expression
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formulation
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grammar
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idiom
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language
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lexicon
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lexis
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locution
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parlance
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phrase
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phraseology
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phrasing
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rhetoric
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speech
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stock of words
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talk
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thesaurus
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usage
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use of words
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usus loquendi
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verbalism
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verbiage
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vocabulary
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wordhoard
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wording
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words
hardcase
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related words >
adverse circumstances
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adversity
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affliction
,
aggravation
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almsman
,
almswoman
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annoyance
,
bankrupt
,
beggar
,
blight
,
bummer
,
care
,
casual
,
charity case
,
cross
,
curse
,
difficulties
,
difficulty
,
down-and-out
,
down-and-outer
,
downer
,
hard knocks
,
hard life
,
hard lot
,
hard-luck guy
,
hardship
,
indigent
,
irritation
,
loser
,
pauper
,
penniless man
,
plight
,
poor devil
,
poor man
,
poor unfortunate
,
poorling
,
predicament
,
pressure
,
rigor
,
sad sack
,
schlemiel
,
schlimazel
,
sea of troubles
,
starveling
,
stress
,
stress of life
,
sure loser
,
trial
,
tribulation
,
trouble
,
troubles
,
unfortunate
,
vale of tears
,
vicissitude
,
victim
,
welfare client
vulgarity
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related words >
Gothicism
,
bad manners
,
bad taste
,
barbarism
,
barbarousness
,
baseness
,
bombasticness
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
caddishness
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
crudeness
,
cumbrousness
,
deficiency
,
discourteousness
,
discourtesy
,
dysphemism
,
earthiness
,
failure
,
fewness
,
filthiness
,
foulness
,
frankness
,
gaucherie
,
gracelessness
,
gross behavior
,
grossness
,
harshness
,
heaviness
,
humbleness
,
ignobility
,
ill breeding
,
ill manners
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
imperfection
,
impoliteness
,
impropriety
,
impurity
,
inadequacy
,
incivility
,
incompetence
,
inconcinnity
,
inconsiderateness
,
incorrectness
,
indecorousness
,
indelicacy
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
infelicity
,
insensitivity
,
insufficiency
,
inurbanity
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
lack of refinement
,
leadenness
,
lewdness
,
littleness
,
loutishness
,
maladroitness
,
mannerlessness
,
meanness
,
mediocrity
,
obscenity
,
offensiveness
,
pettiness
,
pompousness
,
ponderousness
,
poor diction
,
raciness
,
rankness
,
rawness
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
saltiness
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
shabbiness
,
slipshod construction
,
smallness
,
spiciness
,
stiltedness
,
subnormality
,
tactlessness
,
tastelessness
,
tawdriness
,
triviality
,
turgidity
,
uncourtliness
,
uncouthness
,
uneuphoniousness
,
ungallantness
,
ungentlemanliness
,
ungracefulness
,
ungraciousness
,
unmannerliness
,
unpoliteness
,
unrefinement
,
unseemliness
,
unskillfulness
,
unsolicitousness
,
unsophistication
,
unwieldiness
,
vileness
,
vulgarism
phrasing
collapse
the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line
related words >
adaptation
,
arrangement
,
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
harmonization
,
idiom
,
instrumentation
,
intonation
,
language
,
locution
,
modulation
,
orchestration
,
parlance
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
preparation
,
resolution
,
rhetoric
,
setting
,
solution
,
speech
,
suspension
,
talk
,
tone painting
,
transcription
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbalism
,
verbiage
,
wordage
,
wording
poor devil
collapse
someone you feel sorry for
related words >
Bowery bum
,
almsman
,
almswoman
,
bankrupt
,
beachcomber
,
beggar
,
beggarly fellow
,
blighter
,
budmash
,
bum
,
bummer
,
caitiff
,
casual
,
charity case
,
derelict
,
devil
,
down-and-out
,
down-and-outer
,
drifter
,
drunkard
,
good-for-naught
,
good-for-nothing
,
hardcase
,
hobo
,
human wreck
,
indigent
,
lowlife
,
martyr
,
mauvais sujet
,
mean wretch
,
mucker
,
no-good
,
object of compassion
,
pauper
,
pauvre diable
,
penniless man
,
pilgarlic
,
poor creature
,
poor man
,
poorling
,
prey
,
sad case
,
sad sack
,
skid-row bum
,
starveling
,
stiff
,
sufferer
,
sundowner
,
swagman
,
tramp
,
truant
,
vag
,
vagabond
,
vagrant
,
vaurien
,
victim
,
wastrel
,
welfare client
,
worthless fellow
,
wretch
impecunious
collapse
related words >
badly off
,
destitute
,
distressed
,
down to bedrock
,
embarrassed
,
feeling the pinch
,
hard up
,
ill off
,
in Queer Street
,
in narrow circumstances
,
in reduced circumstances
,
in straitened circumstances
,
land-poor
,
narrow
,
on the edge
,
out of pocket
,
pinched
,
poor
,
poorly off
,
poverty-stricken
,
reduced
,
short
,
short of cash
,
short of funds
,
short of money
,
squeezed
,
straitened
,
strapped
,
unmoneyed
,
unprosperous
disadvantaged
collapse
related words >
beggared
,
beggarly
,
bereaved
,
bereft
,
chronic poor
,
chronic poverty area
,
common
,
demeaning
,
depressed
,
depressed class
,
depressed population
,
deprived
,
fleeced
,
ghetto-dwellers
,
ghettoized
,
humble
,
impoverished
,
in need
,
in rags
,
in the shade
,
in want
,
indigent
,
inferior
,
infra dig
,
junior
,
less
,
lesser
,
low
,
lower
,
lowly
,
mendicant
,
minor
,
modest
,
necessitous
,
needy
,
on relief
,
ordinary
,
out at elbows
,
outcasts
,
pauperized
,
poverty subculture
,
poverty-stricken
,
second rank
,
second string
,
secondary
,
servile
,
slum-dwellers
,
starveling
,
stripped
,
sub
,
subaltern
,
subject
,
subordinate
,
subservient
,
the disadvantaged
,
the dispossessed
,
the distressed
,
the down-and-out
,
the forgotten man
,
the have-nots
,
the needy
,
the other America
,
the poor
,
the powerless
,
the underprivileged
,
the urban poor
,
third rank
,
third string
,
underdeveloped nation
,
underprivileged
,
vulgar
,
welfare rolls
underprivileged
collapse
lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society
related words >
badly off
,
beggared
,
beggarly
,
bereaved
,
bereft
,
chronic poor
,
chronic poverty area
,
common
,
demeaning
,
depressed
,
depressed class
,
depressed population
,
deprived
,
dire
,
disadvantaged
,
donsie
,
doomful
,
evil-starred
,
fatal
,
fleeced
,
fortuneless
,
funest
,
ghetto-dwellers
,
ghettoized
,
handicapped
,
hapless
,
humble
,
ill off
,
ill-fated
,
ill-starred
,
impoverished
,
in adverse circumstances
,
in need
,
in rags
,
in the shade
,
in want
,
inauspicious
,
indigent
,
inferior
,
infra dig
,
junior
,
less
,
lesser
,
low
,
lower
,
lowly
,
luckless
,
mendicant
,
minor
,
modest
,
necessitous
,
needy
,
ominous
,
on relief
,
ordinary
,
out at elbows
,
out of luck
,
outcasts
,
pauperized
,
planet-struck
,
poor
,
poverty subculture
,
poverty-stricken
,
sad
,
second rank
,
second string
,
secondary
,
servile
,
short of luck
,
slum-dwellers
,
star-crossed
,
starveling
,
stripped
,
sub
,
subaltern
,
subject
,
subordinate
,
subservient
,
the disadvantaged
,
the dispossessed
,
the distressed
,
the down-and-out
,
the forgotten man
,
the have-nots
,
the needy
,
the other America
,
the poor
,
the powerless
,
the underprivileged
,
the urban poor
,
third rank
,
third string
,
unblessed
,
underdeveloped nation
,
unfortunate
,
unhappy
,
unlucky
,
unprosperous
,
unprovidential
,
vulgar
,
welfare rolls
hard up
collapse
not having enough money to pay for necessities
related words >
badly off
,
desperate
,
distressed
,
down to bedrock
,
embarrassed
,
feeling the pinch
,
hard pressed
,
ill off
,
impecunious
,
in Queer Street
,
in desperate straits
,
in extremis
,
in extremities
,
in narrow circumstances
,
in reduced circumstances
,
in straitened circumstances
,
land-poor
,
narrow
,
on the edge
,
out of pocket
,
pinched
,
poor
,
poorly off
,
reduced
,
short
,
short of cash
,
short of funds
,
short of money
,
sorely pressed
,
squeezed
,
straitened
,
strapped
,
unmoneyed
,
unprosperous
,
up against it
rudeness
collapse
related words >
Gothicism
,
bad manners
,
bad taste
,
barbarism
,
barbarousness
,
bombasticness
,
brashness
,
brassiness
,
brazenfacedness
,
brazenness
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
caddishness
,
callowness
,
cheekiness
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
cockiness
,
contempt
,
cracked voice
,
crassness
,
crudeness
,
crudity
,
cumbrousness
,
derision
,
discord
,
discourteousness
,
discourtesy
,
disrespectfulness
,
dryness
,
dysphemism
,
earthiness
,
face of brass
,
flippancy
,
freshness
,
gaudiness
,
gracelessness
,
greenness
,
gross behavior
,
grossness
,
gruffness
,
gutturalism
,
gutturality
,
gutturalness
,
harshness
,
heaviness
,
hoarseness
,
huskiness
,
ill breeding
,
ill manners
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
immatureness
,
immaturity
,
impertinence
,
impoliteness
,
impropriety
,
impudence
,
impurity
,
incivility
,
inconcinnity
,
inconsiderateness
,
incorrectness
,
indecorousness
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
infelicity
,
insensitivity
,
inurbanity
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
leadenness
,
loudness
,
loutishness
,
mannerlessness
,
meretriciousness
,
nondevelopment
,
obscenity
,
offensiveness
,
oversimplicity
,
oversimplification
,
pompousness
,
ponderousness
,
poor diction
,
raspiness
,
raucity
,
rawness
,
reductionism
,
ribaldry
,
ridicule
,
roughness
,
scrapiness
,
scratchiness
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
simplism
,
slipshod construction
,
stertorousness
,
stiltedness
,
tactlessness
,
tastelessness
,
the rough
,
thickness
,
throatiness
,
turgidity
,
ugliness
,
uncourtliness
,
uncouthness
,
uncultivation
,
undevelopment
,
uneuphoniousness
,
unfinish
,
unfinishedness
,
unfledgedness
,
ungallantness
,
ungentlemanliness
,
ungracefulness
,
ungraciousness
,
unmannerliness
,
unpoliteness
,
unrefinement
,
unripeness
,
unseemliness
,
unsolicitousness
,
unwieldiness
,
vulgarism
,
vulgarity
sad case
collapse
related words >
Bowery bum
,
beachcomber
,
beggar
,
beggarly fellow
,
blighter
,
budmash
,
bum
,
bummer
,
caitiff
,
derelict
,
devil
,
drifter
,
drunkard
,
good-for-naught
,
good-for-nothing
,
hobo
,
human wreck
,
lowlife
,
mauvais sujet
,
mean wretch
,
mucker
,
no-good
,
pauvre diable
,
pilgarlic
,
poor creature
,
poor devil
,
sad sack
,
skid-row bum
,
stiff
,
sundowner
,
swagman
,
tramp
,
truant
,
vag
,
vagabond
,
vagrant
,
vaurien
,
wastrel
,
worthless fellow
,
wretch
vocalization
collapse
related words >
articulation
,
attack
,
bel canto
,
bravura
,
choral singing
,
coloratura
,
croon
,
crooning
,
delivery
,
diction
,
enunciation
,
folk singing
,
hum
,
humming
,
intonation
,
lyricism
,
mouth
,
mouthing
,
operatic singing
,
phonation
,
pronunciation
,
scat
,
scat singing
,
singing
,
sol-fa
,
sol-fa exercise
,
solfeggio
,
solmization
,
song
,
sounding
,
speaking
,
speech
,
tonic sol-fa
,
utterance
,
verbalization
,
vocal music
,
voice
,
voicing
,
warbling
,
yodel
,
yodeling
blighter
collapse
related words >
Bowery bum
,
beachcomber
,
beggar
,
beggarly fellow
,
budmash
,
bum
,
bummer
,
caitiff
,
derelict
,
devil
,
drifter
,
drunkard
,
good-for-naught
,
good-for-nothing
,
hobo
,
human wreck
,
lowlife
,
mauvais sujet
,
mean wretch
,
mucker
,
no-good
,
pauvre diable
,
pilgarlic
,
poor creature
,
poor devil
,
sad case
,
sad sack
,
skid-row bum
,
stiff
,
sundowner
,
swagman
,
tramp
,
truant
,
vag
,
vagabond
,
vagrant
,
vaurien
,
wastrel
,
worm
,
worthless fellow
,
wretch
squeezed
collapse
related words >
badly off
,
clamped
,
compressed
,
concentrated
,
condensed
,
consolidated
,
constricted
,
contracted
,
cramped
,
distressed
,
down to bedrock
,
embarrassed
,
feeling the pinch
,
hard up
,
ill off
,
impecunious
,
in Queer Street
,
in narrow circumstances
,
in reduced circumstances
,
in straitened circumstances
,
knitted
,
land-poor
,
narrow
,
nipped
,
on the edge
,
out of pocket
,
pinched
,
pinched-in
,
poor
,
poorly off
,
puckered
,
pursed
,
reduced
,
short
,
short of cash
,
short of funds
,
short of money
,
solidified
,
straitened
,
strangled
,
strangulated
,
strapped
,
unmoneyed
,
unprosperous
,
wasp-waisted
,
wrinkled
sad sack
collapse
related words >
Bowery bum
,
Milquetoast
,
baby
,
beachcomber
,
beggar
,
beggarly fellow
,
big baby
,
blighter
,
budmash
,
bum
,
bummer
,
caitiff
,
chicken
,
crybaby
,
derelict
,
devil
,
doormat
,
drifter
,
drunkard
,
dull tool
,
good-for-naught
,
good-for-nothing
,
gutless wonder
,
hard-luck guy
,
hardcase
,
hobo
,
human wreck
,
invertebrate
,
jellyfish
,
lightweight
,
loser
,
lowlife
,
mauvais sujet
,
mean wretch
,
meek soul
,
milksop
,
mollycoddle
,
mucker
,
namby-pamby
,
nebbish
,
no-good
,
nonentity
,
pansy
,
pantywaist
,
pauvre diable
,
pilgarlic
,
poor creature
,
poor devil
,
poor unfortunate
,
pushover
,
sad case
,
schlemiel
,
schlimazel
,
sissy
,
skid-row bum
,
softling
,
softy
,
sop
,
stiff
,
sundowner
,
sure loser
,
swagman
,
tramp
,
truant
,
unfortunate
,
vag
,
vagabond
,
vagrant
,
vaurien
,
victim
,
wastrel
,
weak sister
,
weakling
,
worthless fellow
,
wretch
ponderousness
collapse
an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency; "a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness"; "his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition"
related words >
Gothicism
,
aridity
,
avoirdupois
,
awkwardness
,
bad taste
,
barbarism
,
barbarousness
,
barrenness
,
beef
,
beefiness
,
bloodlessness
,
bombasticness
,
boorishness
,
bulkiness
,
bumblingness
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
characterlessness
,
clownishness
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
colorlessness
,
crudeness
,
cumbersomeness
,
cumbrousness
,
deadness
,
deadweight
,
dismalness
,
dragginess
,
dreariness
,
dryness
,
dullness
,
dustiness
,
dysphemism
,
effeteness
,
emptiness
,
etiolation
,
fatness
,
flatness
,
gawkiness
,
gawkishness
,
gracelessness
,
gravity
,
gross weight
,
grossness
,
ham-handedness
,
handful of thumbs
,
harshness
,
heaviness
,
heavy-handedness
,
heft
,
heftiness
,
hollowness
,
hulkiness
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
impracticality
,
impropriety
,
impurity
,
inanity
,
inconcinnity
,
inconvenience
,
incorrectness
,
indecorousness
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
inexcitability
,
infelicity
,
insipidity
,
insipidness
,
jejunity
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
leadenness
,
left-handedness
,
lifelessness
,
liveweight
,
loutishness
,
lowness of spirit
,
lubberliness
,
lumpishness
,
maladroitness
,
massiveness
,
neat weight
,
net
,
net weight
,
oafishness
,
overbalance
,
overweight
,
paleness
,
pallor
,
pointlessness
,
pokiness
,
pompousness
,
ponderability
,
ponderosity
,
poor diction
,
poundage
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
slipshod construction
,
slowness
,
solemnity
,
spiritlessness
,
sterility
,
stiffness
,
stiltedness
,
stodginess
,
stuffiness
,
superficiality
,
tastelessness
,
tediousness
,
tonnage
,
turgidity
,
uncouthness
,
underweight
,
uneuphoniousness
,
ungainliness
,
ungracefulness
,
unhandiness
,
uninterestingness
,
unliveliness
,
unmanageability
,
unrefinement
,
unseemliness
,
unwieldiness
,
vapidity
,
vapidness
,
vulgarism
,
vulgarity
,
weight
,
weightiness
,
woodenness
phraseology
collapse
related words >
argot
,
cant
,
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
gibberish
,
gobbledygook
,
grammar
,
idiom
,
jargon
,
language
,
langue
,
lexicon
,
lexis
,
lingo
,
lingua
,
locution
,
mumbo jumbo
,
parlance
,
parole
,
patois
,
patter
,
personal usage
,
phrase
,
phrasing
,
rhetoric
,
scatology
,
slang
,
speech
,
stock of words
,
taboo language
,
talk
,
thesaurus
,
tongue
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbalism
,
verbiage
,
vernacular
,
vocabulary
,
vulgar language
,
wordage
,
wordhoard
,
wording
,
words
out of pocket
collapse
related words >
at a loss
,
badly off
,
bankrupt in
,
bare of
,
bereft of
,
denuded of
,
deprived of
,
destitute of
,
devoid of
,
distressed
,
down to bedrock
,
embarrassed
,
empty of
,
feeling the pinch
,
for want of
,
forlorn of
,
hard up
,
ill off
,
impecunious
,
in Queer Street
,
in default of
,
in narrow circumstances
,
in reduced circumstances
,
in straitened circumstances
,
in the red
,
in want of
,
lacking
,
land-poor
,
missing
,
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poor creature
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vag
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vagrant
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wastrel
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worm
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worthless fellow
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