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coolie
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n 1: (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian
laborer [syn: coolie, cooly]
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coolly
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adv 1: in a composed and unconcerned manner; "without more ado
Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed
it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher" [syn:
coolly, nervelessly, nonchalantly]
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cruelly
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adv 1: excessively; "a cruelly bitter winter"
2: with cruelty; "he treated his students cruelly"
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duly
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adv 1: at the proper time; "she was duly apprised of the raise"
[syn: punctually, duly]
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guayule
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n 1: much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white
flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a
source of rubber [syn: guayule, Parthenium argentatum]
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lazuli
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n 1: an azure blue semiprecious stone [syn: lapis lazuli,
lazuli]
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newly
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adv 1: very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised
objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed
by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh
out of tomatoes" [syn: newly, freshly, fresh,
new]
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patchouli
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n 1: small East Indian shrubby mint; fragrant oil from its
leaves is used in perfumes [syn: patchouli, patchouly,
pachouli, Pogostemon cablin]
2: a heavy perfume made from the patchouli plant [syn:
patchouli, patchouly, pachouli]
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pebbly
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adj 1: abounding in small stones; "landed at a shingly little
beach" [syn: gravelly, pebbly, shingly]
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poorly
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adv 1: (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or
improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill
prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends";
"the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam";
"the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-
conceived plan" [syn: ill, badly, poorly] [ant:
good, well]
adj 1: somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing
grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look
a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is
unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing,
indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly,
unwell, under the weather, seedy]
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purely
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adv 1: restricted to something; "we talked strictly business"
[syn: strictly, purely]
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sourly
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adv 1: in a sour manner; "he complained sourly that the new
rules only benefitted the managers"
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stably
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adv 1: in a stable solid fixed manner; "the boulder was balanced
stably at the edge of the canyon"
2: in a stable unchanging manner; "the death rate in Russia has
been stably high"
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stubbly
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adj 1: having a short growth of beard; "his stubbled chin" [syn:
bestubbled, stubbled, stubbly]
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surely
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adv 1: definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used
informally for `surely'); "the results are surely
encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's
going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for
certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough";
"he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good";
"sure he'll come" [syn: surely, certainly, sure,
for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as
shooting]
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truly
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adv 1: in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now
truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't
really listen to us" [syn: truly, genuinely,
really]
2: by right; "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime" [syn:
rightfully, truly]
3: with sincerity; without pretense; "she praised him sincerely
for his victory"; "was unfeignedly glad to see his old
teacher"; "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience" [syn:
sincerely, unfeignedly, truly] [ant: insincerely]
4: in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in
truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire";
"really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book"
[syn: in truth, really, truly]
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unduly
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adv 1: to an undue degree; "she was unduly pessimistic about her
future"
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unruly
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adj 1: noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a
boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became
rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of
teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his
paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary
human beings"; "an unruly class" [syn: boisterous,
rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly]
2: unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" [syn:
disobedient, unruly]
3: of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited,
but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: indocile,
uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly]
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untruly
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adv 1: in a untrue manner; "he silenced the whisperings which
connected her, untruly and unfairly, with his separation
from his wife"
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wobbly
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adj 1: inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety
table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder
felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though
one of the arches is wonky" [syn: rickety, shaky,
wobbly, wonky]
n 1: a member of the Industrial Workers of the World
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boule
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n 1: an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow
and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork [syn: boulle,
boule, buhl]
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thule
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n 1: a town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a
United States naval base was built there
2: the geographical region believed by ancient geographers to be
the northernmost land in the inhabited world [syn: Thule,
ultima Thule]
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bernoulli
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n 1: Swiss physicist who contributed to hydrodynamics and
mathematical physics (1700-1782) [syn: Bernoulli, Daniel
Bernoulli]
2: Swiss mathematician (1667-1748) [syn: Bernoulli, Johann
Bernoulli, Jean Bernoulli, John Bernoulli]
3: Swiss mathematician (1654-1705) [syn: Bernoulli, Jakob
Bernoulli, Jacques Bernoulli, James Bernoulli]
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stoolie
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n 1: someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn:
fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool
pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary]
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douroucouli
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n 1: nocturnal monkey of Central America and South America with
large eyes and thick fur [syn: douroucouli, Aotus
trivirgatus]
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coulee
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dimply
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cooley
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rubbly
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rumply
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hughley
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bewley
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bruley
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buley
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duley
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cerulli
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benasuli
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bianculli
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crisafulli
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hooley
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dooley
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pooley
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schoolie
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bernouilli
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puli
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