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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 02:52 AM
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What is the ugliest word in English besides racial slurs and swear words?
I think "ombudsman" is way up there, but there's probably a lot more.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 02:58 AM
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1. suburban
:puke:
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 02:58 AM
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2. cacophony
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 02:59 AM
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3. Hate
:cry:
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:01 AM
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4. Electability.
:rofl: :popcorn:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 01:26 PM
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49. Fuckin' A!
:D
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:02 AM
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5. capitalism.
I'd say "smarmy" - but I really love that word, for some reason.
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:03 AM
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6. Diebold.
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Awsi Dooger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:05 AM
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7. Cheese
Actually I consider it a swear word if not lower
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:23 AM
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10. * slap *
:cry:
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entanglement Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:20 AM
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8. eviscerate
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:32 AM
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12. that sounds nice--disembowel doesn't
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njdemocrat106 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:21 AM
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9. Thrombosis
I get the willies just thinking about it (the word and the medical condition).
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:31 AM
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11. pubescent, menarche, acne (the last is one of the few that sounds as bad
as it it).
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:35 AM
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13. Santorum.
Both definitions.
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Frozen Hamster Donating Member (232 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 05:05 AM
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14. Belgium
The most ofensive word in the universe.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 07:57 AM
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16. Hehehe, now let's see how many people get the joke :)
(as a side note, did you know that the whole "Belgium" bit only appeared in the US text, and not in the original UK version?)
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 11:14 AM
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31. It was in the Radio version also
I can still hear Ford shouting "Belium, man, Belgium!"
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 11:38 AM
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34. In the original UK book, it was written as "fuck" but was changed back
to the radio version to get past the publishers censors.
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Brooklyn Michael Donating Member (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 04:10 PM
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58. Hey...I got an award for that....
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 06:01 AM
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15. Nice.
There are few words which can fully encompass the venom which I hold for this grotesque collection - barely even worthy of the title 'word'.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 08:06 AM
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17. Malignant.
Ew and--terrible.
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 08:39 AM
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18. rhabdomyosarcoma.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 08:51 AM
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19. "Cooperation", "teamwork", "compromise", "love", "friend"
ugh
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 08:55 AM
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20. brazillion
At least that's the ugliest one at DU.
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 08:58 AM
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22. seconded
Ding! ding! ding! WINNER WINNER ding! ding! ding!
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 09:12 AM
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23. *taking a bow*



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Lochloosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 10:55 AM
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29. There is a joke here somewhere
Edited on Mon Nov-28-05 10:56 AM by Lochloosa
"Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, two Brazilian soldiers were killed."

"OH, NO!" the President exclaims with great emotion. "That's terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at his display of emotion and nervously watch as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 11:10 AM
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30. DAMMIT!

Quit it!
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Lochloosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 12:01 PM
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40. What?
:evilgrin:
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 12:14 PM
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41. You Are Bad To The Bone!
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 08:56 AM
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21. Neocon
oh wait...I use that as a swear word
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 10:16 AM
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24. Miscegenation
Edited on Mon Nov-28-05 10:19 AM by Orrex
I'm embarrassed and disgusted that this word is part of the language, because it's never used except as a term of self-righteous racist condemnation.

"Prothonotary" is pretty awful, too, but for purely anti-euphonic reasons.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 11:44 AM
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37. Isn't that Bush's word for improperly educated?
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 11:46 AM
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38. or his word for when people don't take him seriously?
"My opponents miscegenate me."
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 01:33 PM
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50. What about when the watermelons
mate with the cucumber and produce totally inedible melon-like-objects in the next year's garden?

And what's wrong with Prothonotary?

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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 01:59 PM
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51. Dunno about prothonotary
Just can't stand the sound of it. "Comptroller" is kind of the same way.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 10:50 AM
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25. Hate n/t
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 10:52 AM
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26. It starts with 'p', ends in 's'
and there's a 'u' in the middle...and just hearing it makes me wanna hurl. x(
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Lochloosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 10:54 AM
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27. Cod
Edited on Mon Nov-28-05 10:55 AM by Lochloosa
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 10:54 AM
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28. Faggot
At the risk of seeming like a broken record, this is a nasty, ugly word.
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purr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 11:37 AM
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33. Dont the British call their cigarettes that?
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Monkey see Monkey Do Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 01:00 PM
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44. "Fags" (which probably isn't much better)
also "Tabs" if you're up North.

However, we do have a food called "Faggots" - basically pork balls which you have with gravy (& mash & peas).
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 11:48 AM
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39. that one doesn't seem as likely to be appropriated like "queer"
"Faggot" was an insult among my grade school friends before any of us knew what it meant.
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corksean Donating Member (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 11:19 AM
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32. Gusset, flange, floccinaucinihilipilification
The last one because it's only ever used by morans who've gone to the trouble of memorising it in an effort to impress you.

BTW, it wasn't found by the DU Spell check. Neither was morans?!?!
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purr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 11:38 AM
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35. Moist
some reason this word really creeps me out
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 11:44 AM
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36. Committee
<shudder>

As in, "I think we should form a committee to look into this."

Aaaaaahhhhh!!
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 12:35 PM
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42. Pus
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 12:58 PM
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43. pygmy--not a racial slur, but sounds like it is
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 01:03 PM
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45. flaccid--especially when pronounced with a K
if it's flaSS id, it's okay. FlaK sid sounds like the opposite of limp, or like your penis is being hit with anti-aircraft fire.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 01:15 PM
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46. smegma
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=smegma

:puke:
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unsavedtrash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 01:18 PM
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I was thinking the same thing :)
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 01:19 PM
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48. Hmmm. Great minds...
but what kind of mind immediately comes up with smegma? :rofl:
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 01:18 PM
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47. Bush.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 02:11 PM
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52. Scrotum
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:47 PM
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54. Everyone remember:
Sen. Rick Santorum ===> A Scrotum Skinner

I'm going to harp on that string 'till it breaks.
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Horus45 Donating Member (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:22 PM
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53. Like
I can't stand it when people use the word Like, to reference everything, like ya know what I mean?
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swimboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:50 PM
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55. itch
and ointment. also the related unguent.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 03:51 PM
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56. corporation
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Brooklyn Michael Donating Member (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 04:09 PM
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57. phlegm
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 08:52 PM
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61. that LOOKS like what it is, but doesn't sound as bad. what if it was
spelled the way it's pronounced: "flem"?
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Lumily Donating Member (225 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 04:16 PM
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59. Yogurt
I like the substance, yogurt, but I hate the sound of the word. It's like nails on a chalkboard to me.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 04:19 PM
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60. Republican.
:puke: :puke: :puke:
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 08:55 PM
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62. Niggardly.
I have a hard time using that word in conversation.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 08:59 PM
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63. Retard/retarded
...as they're usually used.
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Aimah Donating Member (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 09:04 PM
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64. pulchritude
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 09:04 PM
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65. Ergo. God it just sounds so damn obnoxious
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 09:39 PM
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66. Zit. n/t
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