| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| antediluvian |
hopelessly old-fashioned; primitive; outdated. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| banal |
lacking originality or liveliness; disappointingly ordinary; commonplace; trite. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| bilge |
the rounded part of a ship's hull between the bottom and the sides. |
| consternation |
surprise and alarm, leading to panic, deep disappointment, or total confusion. |
| dawdle |
to waste time; be slow. |
| deposition |
a sworn statement, usually in writing, for use as testimony by an absent witness in a court of law. |
| discountenance |
to embarrass or disconcert. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| laconic |
using very few words; succinct; terse. |
| lupine2 |
fierce; greedy. |
| mirabile dictu |
(Latin) wonderful to say or relate. |
| shyster |
a person, usually a lawyer, who uses underhanded, unethical methods. |