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#204108 - 01/08/12 01:11 AM Re: Depicting something as dangerous [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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#204109 - 01/08/12 01:28 AM Joined: May 2010
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I beg your pardon? Oh, right, there is something false about them:
Asperse is to attack with evil reports or false or injurious charges. Calumniate is to to utter maliciously false statements, charges, or imputations about.
I don't know, they may not necessarily imply danger, but to me they have a sense of warning, and certainly the idea of going too far. Works in my head! I felt that "perhaps more than is warranted" is fundamental to the question.
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#204117 - 01/08/12 04:41 PM Joined: Nov 2011
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You certainly did, Candy.
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I do not quite understand this part of the question. Being alive is dangerous. How many degrees of danger can there be?
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#204122 - 01/09/12 01:12 AM Joined: Mar 2000
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What is more dangerous, dangerous or perilous?
Perilous. Dangerous has been watered down to where it can mean a very small degree of risk. Perilous, on the other hand, almost always means a high risk of physical -- well, peril.
Though with both it's best to take the meaning from the context.
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"Mom, last summer he got a warning for driving too fast. That's the worst thing he's ever done."
To my mind, that's what we're talking about here: overreacting, exaggerating, that kind of thing.
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