scrimshank
to avoid ones obligations
As usual NATO scrimshanked their financial obligations.
adventitious
something that occurs or is added by accident or chance rather than planned
My success in the stock market is purely adventitious.
aegis
one who provides a newbie with direction or protection
I was fortunate to work under Hillel Laks aegis.
churlish
Rude and mean-spirited
I was never able to go without sleep in Residency and was unforgivingly churlish to those who paged me.
nabalitic
churlish and miserly
Scrooge is nabalitic accountant in Dicken’s a Christmas Carol.
recherché
something that is rare or precious and sought with care
Salvation is recherché.
recidivism
to return to bad habits or characteristics
Recidivism is my middle name.
spuddle
to attend to trivialities as being uber important
Mohammed was an outcast who spent days by a muddy river spuddling ways to clean one’s schnoz. After ten years he had ten followers.
subsycophant
a revolting leech or parasite of a person
In life, Goebbels was such a revolting subsycophant of Hitler that the devil at his appearance of the Ninefold Gates of Hell had a difficult time finding a deep enough room with enough heat.
Aesopian
a statement that has a literal meaning but also a more important hidden meaning
When Bill Clinton said “ I did not have sex with that lady!” he was definitely being Aesopian.
affected
to have pretended
Epstein affected being a powerful Investment Broker for the rich, while actually he was an agent for the CIA, Mossad and MI-6.
illaudable
not admirable
Free college tuition for those with children, but while being paid by all…even the childless , is illaudable.
illutation
a mud bath at a spa
Desiring complete holistic healing we obviously opted for a double illutation.
recondite
extremely difficult to understand
Quantum Field Theory is recondite.
recrudescence
a recurrence of a prior disease
A recrudescence of Covid is currently occurring.
pied-a-terre
a temporary and small housing arrangement
The immigrants are being dislodged from their pied-a-terres.
gad
to move around aimlessly
Ancient prophets were often poor and gadding about various towns.
tartuffe
a religious hypocrite who affects marked piety
The tartuffe, Reverend Jones, had sexual relations with most of his female followers.
affectation
an untrue act or pretending
My desire for a beautiful soul is not an affectation. It is just difficult to do.
afflatus
a sudden inspiration almost divine
“Put her on Pump!” was a divine afflatus.
imbroligo
im BRO lee yoe
a “sticky situation”
My worst imbroligo was being faced without my referring Cardiologist , or my Partner. And I still rue my stupid decision that hurt so many innocent people.
immure
to imprison
The criminal immigrants will be immured in Alligator Alcatraz.
reductio ad absurdum
showing a premise to be false by taking it to its absurd coclusion
“Wind power will supplant all fossil fuel.” By reductio ad absurdum we will need an area the size of Jupiter to build the needed number.
redolent
sweet smelling
She wore a redolent perfume.