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Jan 24, 2025

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Words to describe people

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nefandous
minacious
perfidious
prickmedainty
cumberworld

“People like you should be mandated to carry around potted plants, solely to replace the oxygen you waste.”

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There’s a word for it

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

cumberworld

PRONUNCIATION:

(KUHM-buhr-wurld)

MEANING:

noun: A useless person.

ETYMOLOGY:

A cumberworld is one who encumbers the world, literally speaking. From cumber (hinder), from Anglo-French acumbrer (hinder), from combre (dam, barrage) + world. Earliest documented use: 1374. Another way to describe a cumberworld might be a waste of oxygen.

USAGE:

“I don’t have to accept your coin, cumberworld. I don’t have time to accept anything at all from you -- not lies, not threats, not anything.”
N.M. Zoltack; Keepers of the Flames; N.M. Zoltack; 2022.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton, novelist (24 Jan 1861-1937)

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