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  1. emasculate
    deprive of strength or vigor
    A long course of peace and prosperity, acting on our depraved nature, tends to emasculate and corrupt a people.
  2. deprave
    corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
    A long course of peace and prosperity, acting on our depraved nature, tends to emasculate and corrupt a people.
  3. Epicurean
    of Epicurus or epicureanism
    There grows gradually up a worldly and Epicurean expediency that sneers at lofty heroism and high principle as mere Quixotic romance;
  4. quixotic
    not sensible about practical matters
    There grows gradually up a worldly and Epicurean expediency that sneers at lofty heroism and high principle as mere Quixotic romance;
  5. revelry
    unrestrained merrymaking
    The refined and intelligent withdraw from political life, either to amass wealth in business, or to enjoy it in scholarly ease, leaving the direction of public affairs in the hands of brawling demagogues; and the fiery energy of youth is expended in re
  6. vituperative
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  7. defalcation
    a sum of money owned by someone else that is misused
  8. nepotism
    favoritism shown to relatives or friends by those in power
  9. circumlocution
    an indirect way of expressing something
  10. peculation
    the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
  11. defalcation
    a sum of money owned by someone else that is misused
  12. usurious
    greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
  13. cormorant
    large, dark-colored, long-necked seabird
  14. Gustavus
    king of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power; his domestic reforms made Sweden a modern state; in 1630 he intervened on the Protestant side of the Thirty Years' War and was killed in the battle of Lutzen (1594-1632)
Created on 一月 25, 2010 (updated 三月 31, 2021)

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