CozyEnglish

Nouns
1. (n.) caustic remark, irony, sarcasm, satire;
  - witty language used to convey insults or scorn;
  - “he used sarcasm to upset his opponent”; “irony is wasted on the stupid”; “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) letup, lull;
  - a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished;
  - “there was never a letup in the noise”;

2. (n.) lull, quiet;
  - a period of calm weather;
  - “there was a lull in the storm”;

Verbs
1. (verb) lull;
  - calm by deception;
  - “Don’t let yourself be lulled into a false state of security”;

2. (verb) calm down, lull;
  - become quiet or less intensive;
  - “the fighting lulled for a moment”;

3. (verb) calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize;
  - make calm or still;
  - “quiet the dragons of worry and fear”;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept;
  - not elegant or graceful in expression;
  - “an awkward prose style”; “a clumsy apology”; “his cumbersome writing style”; “if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?”;

2. (adj.) feckless, inept;
  - generally incompetent and ineffectual;
  - “feckless attempts to repair the plumbing”; “inept handling of the account”;

3. (adj.) inept, tactless;
  - revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse;
  - “an inept remark”; “it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) persiflage;
  - light teasing;

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Verbs
1. (verb) deride;
  - treat or speak of with contempt;
  - “He derided his student’s attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics”;

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