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  • 91bipolar disorder — Psychiatry. an affective disorder characterized by periods of mania alternating with periods of depression, usually interspersed with relatively long intervals of normal mood. Formerly, manic depressive illness. * * * or manic depressive… …

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  • 92derogatory — derogatorily, adv. derogatoriness, n. /di rog euh tawr ee, tohr ee/, adj. tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark. [1495 1505; < LL derogatorius cursing, equiv. to deroga(re)&#8230; …

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  • 93HOVELL, William Hilton (1786-1875) — explorer was born at Yarmouth, England, on 26 April 1786, went to sea at an early age, and in 1808 was in command of a vessel trading with South America. In October 1813 he came to Sydney, and, getting in touch with Simeon Lord (q.v.), he became&#8230; …

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  • 94List of characters in the Moomin series — Some of the many Moomin characters. From left to right, Sniff, Snufkin, Moominpappa, Moominmamma, Moomintroll (Moomin), Mymble, Groke, Snork Maiden and Hattifatteners A large number of characters are found in the Moomin series by Tove Jansson.&#8230; …

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  • 95calumnious — I adjective abusive, blackening, calumniatory, castigatory, caustic, censorious, comminatory, compromising, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, criminatory, criminosus, damaging, damnatory, decrying, defamatory, denigratory, denunciatory,&#8230; …

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  • 96derogatory — I adjective belittling, calumniatory, calumnious, censorious, condemnatory, contumelious, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, detracting, detractory, disapprobatory, disapproving, discrediting, disdainful,&#8230; …

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  • 97pejorative — I adjective abusive, acrimonious, belittling, blackening, calumnious, castigatory, censorious, critical, cynical, damaging, decrying, defamatory, denigrating, denunciatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derogative, derogatory, detracting …

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  • 98abusive — Synonyms and related words: Rabelaisian, atrocious, back biting, backhand, backhanded, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, blasphemous, bludgeoning, blustering, browbeating, brutal, bulldozing, bullying, calumniatory, calumnious, catty,&#8230; …

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  • 99belittling — Synonyms and related words: abusive, back biting, belittlement, bitchy, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, comedown, contempt, contemptuous, contumelious, decrial, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciation, depreciative, depreciatory,&#8230; …

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  • 100bitchy — Synonyms and related words: abusive, back biting, baleful, bearish, belittling, calumniatory, calumnious, cankered, cantankerous, catty, censorious, churlish, contemptuous, contumelious, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross grained, crusty, cussed,&#8230; …

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