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  • 31Danbert Nobacon — pictured playing live at Leeds University, 1986, supporting Conflict Danbert Nobacon (born Nigel Hunter,[1] Burnley, England on 16 January 1962) was a vocalist and occasional keyboard player in the Leeds based anarchist band Chumbawamba. He is… …

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  • 32Flying Lotus — Surnom Flying Lotus FlyLo Nom Steven Ellison Naissance 7 octobre 1983 Los Angeles, Calif …

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  • 33Lake Wobegon effect — (layk WOH.bee.gawn uh.fekt) n. The tendency to treat all members of a group as above average, particularly with respect to numerical values such as test scores or executive salaries; in a survey, the tendency for most people to describe… …

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  • 34doleful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sorrowful, sad. See dejection. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. sad, sorrowful, mournful, wretched; see sad 1 , 2 . See Synonym Study at sad . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. mournful, melancholy,… …

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  • 35dolorous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. mournful (see dejection). II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. mournful, sorrowful, distressed, grievous; see sad 1 , 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. sad, sorrowful, painful, grievous, heartrending,… …

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  • 36miserable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wretched, forlorn, doleful; mean, contemptible, paltry. See unimportance. Ant., happy, wealthy. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In misery] Syn. distressed, afflicted, sickly, ill, wretched, sick, ailing …

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  • 37wretched — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. beggarly, worthless, miserable; paltry, mean, pitiful; unhappy, unfortunate; woebegone, tormented, afflicted; shabby, disreputable, deplorable. See badness, unimportance. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …

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  • 38Dejection — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Dejection >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 dejection dejection Sgm: N 1 dejectedness dejectedness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 depression depression prosternation| Sgm: N 1 lowness of spirits lowness of spirits depression of… …

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  • 39woeful — adj 1. wretched, miserable, abject, Archaic. woesome, forlorn, Obs. baleful; bitter, dreary, Literary. drear, gloomy, harsh, severe, stark, oppressive, onerous; dreadful, grievous, tragic, ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic; painful,… …

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  • 40flea-bitten — adjective worn and broken down by hard use a creaky shack a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape a flea bitten sofa a run down neighborhood a woebegone old shack • Syn: ↑creaky, ↑decrepit, ↑ …

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