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here's one: underlooking
"Lucas, Lester, and an anonymous FBI tech sat in Haward's office underlooking the Minneapolis skyline."
- John Sandford, Mind Prey (1996)
underlook - v
1. trans. To look at, or inspect, from beneath.
2. To miss seeing by looking too low
[OED]
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Princess Di used this way of looking to her advantage.
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To underlook or to overlook. Both ways you gonna miss something.
btw. what does derused mean?
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it's much like derlooked, only moreso.
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here's another great, but underused word:
dephlogisticate - to remove or deprive of phlogiston
"He led the escape from the old novel of external incident — the true Victorian novel — the dephlogisticated piffle of the department stores." - H. L. Mencken
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> dephlogisticate
oh, that's good! what fun to say!
formerly known as etaoin...
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what does derused mean? HA! That was a good one, Branny! (Confess it took the second reading through both posts for me to get it!) 
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here's another great, but underused word:
dephlogisticate - to remove or deprive of phlogiston
"He led the escape from the old novel of external incident — the true Victorian novel — the dephlogisticated piffle of the department stores. - H. L. Mencken Gee. I wonder why it's so little used. Actually, I would think that if it were used at all these days it would be overused.
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au contraire, mon ami. if used in a figurative (transferred?) sense, or in a historical novel as here:
"I write what he dictates, but I am not happy with the idea of phlogiston. I think that the results of our experiment support Stahl's theory* to an extent but don't prove it. I wish we could catch the air insde the glass and do more experiments to see how it really differs in quality from what Stahl would call the dephlogisticated air around us, but I say nothing of this to my father."
- Katharine McMahon, The Alchemist's Daughter (2006)
*Georg Ernst Stahl, German chemist chiefly remembered for the obsolete phlogiston theory.
Last edited by tsuwm; 08/14/11 03:13 AM.
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dephlogisticate isn't yet defined in the Urban dictionary, maybe we should come up with something and submit it!
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