Hypocrites!

[kentuck]

Is there a better word?

[Orrex]

1. I've always like oubliette

That's a pretty cool word.

[kentuck]

5. Can't find that in my thesaurus?

What does it mean? :-)

[Orrex]

9. Dictionary.com has it!

-noun
a secret dungeon with an opening only in the ceiling, as in certain old castles.

It's one of the roundest-sounding words I know. Positively mellifluous!

[vanderBeth]

11. It comes from the French word "oublier", to forget

I was watching a game show yesterday. :P


They wanted to know the name of the word from the root. I guess they forgot people there. I remember learning oublier for French and I also thought it was really pretty.

[Orrex]

13. Exactly! It also appears in the movie Labyrinth.

At one point the protagonist winds up in a tiny cell, which the villain--watching from afar--identifies as an oubliette.

The protagonist's guide tells her that's it's a place you put people you want to forget.

[panader0]

8. Not in my dictionary. But cool alright!

[atreides1]

2. Could you Expand

Please.

[jpgray]

3. Mountebank

[beam me up scottie]

4. Inconceivable!

[AndyA]

6. Singularly, no.

Lying, obfuscating, crooked, thieving, bigoted, hate-filled, cheating, stealing, idiotic, moronic, abusive, irresponsible, under-performing, manipulative hypocrites is more descriptive, though.

Or, assholes works too, but is demeaning to the body part that actually performs a beneficial function, which "they" do not. ;)

[kentuck]

7. Good one!

I'll have to remember that definition of an "asshole". :-)

[damntexdem]

10. Well, since Steele wants to make the GOP a hip hop party, maybe he would say: hip-ocrites.

Not that they'll ever be hip to anything, though, so maybe hypocrites is best -- especially given their penchant for hype.

[silverweb]

12. That's why...

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