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Date: Mon Aug 25 00:01:09 EDT 2003
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--facinorous
facinorous (fa-SIN-uhr-uhs) adjective
Extremely wicked.
[From Latin facinorous, from facinus (bad deed), from facere (to do or make).]
"O ambitious Marius! O cruel Catiline! O facinorous Sylla!"
Miguel de Cervantes; Don Quixote (Translation by Thomas Shelton).
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I remember a Pogo episode wherein he and the lovely Miz Mamselle were enjoying a quiet picnic when they were interrupted by Beauregard the Hound Dog et al., who ran over the picnic blanket scattering picnickeries about. Pogo called the miscreants 'facinorous runagates!'
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Beauregard run over the gateaux?
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