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  • 31Gratification disorder — (also known as infantile masturbation , despite occurring in children as old as 10, or sometimes benign idiopathic infantile dyskinesia ) is a form of masturbatory behaviour that has often been mistaken for epilepsy, abdominal pain, and… …

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  • 32Malapropismus — Der Malapropismus ist ein erzähltechnischer Kunstgriff, bei dem ein Wort zu humoristischen Zwecken absichtlich in einer unsinnigen Weise (d. h. einer nicht dem lexikalischen Sinn des betreffenden Wortes entsprechenden Weise) statt eines… …

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  • 33infelicitous — infelicitously, adv. /in feuh lis i teuhs/, adj. 1. inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark. 2. not felicitous, happy, or fortunate; unhappy. [1825 35; IN 3 + FELICITOUS] * * * …

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  • 34malapropism — malapropistic, adj. /mal euh prop iz euhm/, n. 1. an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound. 2. an instance of this, as in Lead the way and we ll precede. [1840 50; MALAPROP + ISM] *… …

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  • 35Goldwyn, Samuel — orig. Schmuel Gelbfisz later Samuel Goldfish born July 1879, Warsaw, Pol. died Jan. 31, 1974, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. U.S. film producer. He emigrated alone at age 13 from Poland to New York, where he worked in a glove factory and became a… …

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  • 36irrelevant — ir·rel·e·vant /ir re lə vənt/ adj: not relevant: not applicable or pertinent irrelevant allegations irrelevant evidence compare immaterial ir·rel·e·vant·ly adv Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webst …

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  • 37apropos — 1. adjective /ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ,ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/ a) Of an appropriate or pertinent nature. Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos. b) By the way; incidentally. Sherlock… …

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  • 38impertinent — I (insolent) adjective abusive, arrogant, assuming, audacious, bellicose, bold, brash, brazen, cavalier, churlish, coarse, contempt, contemptuous, contumacious, contumelious, defiant, derisive, discourteous, disdainful, disrespectful, flippant,… …

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  • 39inapplicable — I adjective alien, at variance, clashing, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, divergent, foreign, ill adapted, impertinent, improper, inadmissible, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incommensurable, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous,… …

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  • 40inapposite — I adjective alien, aside from the point, at variance, beside the mark, beside the point, clashing, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, disproportionate, dissonant, extraneous, far fetched, foreign, ill adapted, ill timed, illogical, immaterial,… …

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