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What's a term for someone who selectively gets women's names wrong?
For example, calling someone named Denise, Deborah and other women by wrong names, but not with men's names.
Searched google and other word usage sites and didn't find much other than it could be ...
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What do we call a person who never intentionally ignores others and always acknowledge other's actions or gestures and value them?
I am not getting a perfect word for this type of person. First I thought that 'Considerate' will be the right word but then I found that being considerate doesn't mean to acknowledge the other's ...
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What is a phrase for a person who changes their story to satisfy whoever they're addressing?
What is a phrase to describe a person (especially a woman) running for office who tells different political factions what they want to hear in order to win their vote?
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Word for someone who wants everything living to die [closed]
I'm looking for a word to refer to a person who is in favor of all living beings not surviving.
A compound word is acceptable.
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What do you call someone who will talk bad about someone but tries to make it about you when they're called out? [duplicate]
Toby calls Jetta ugly and gets embarrassed when Sarah calls him out and tells him that he should be nice to her because Jetta's done nothing to him.
Days later, Toby calls Sabah a bully for responding ...
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What are terms for a person who makes things work (and improves upon) by fixing, modifying, or creating only from spare parts because they are poor?
What are some names, labels, terms, slang, and/or figures of speech; for a person who (can quickly and 100% dependably) makes things (devices, systems, machines, processes, etc.) work (not only ...
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What do you call someone who is being mean, but sounds and looks like they are being nice? [closed]
What do you call it when someone is being back-handed in a way that looks and sounds nice outrightly but is intended to be mean? Passive-aggressive is too obvious.
The equivalent to
Bless her heart.
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What to call someone who understands things? (As if that is their talent)
I know that Richard Feynman is called: “The Great Explainer”. What would be the “opposite”? The Great “one who understands well”.
Sentence:
She is such a great _______, she understands things so well,...
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Is there a word that's the relational opposite of "Childless"? (Specifically for when trying to categorize an adult) [closed]
For full context: I'm looking to categorize adults succinctly into binary categories: those with children, and those without
So we could say there are two buckets of Adults here: "Childless" ...
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Is there a term to describe indirect/higher-order decision-making or guessing?
I’m referring to situations where you might make a guess or decision based on factors not directly applicable to the situation, such as context. For example, if you were guessing a multiple choice ...
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Is there a word to describe someone who is procrastinating, perplexed and demotivated?
I am looking for English equivalent word for a Tamil word "மலைப்பு".
Here is the Tamil saying I am trying to translate to English,
களைத்தவனோடு கூட வேலைக்கு செல்லலாம் அனால் மலைத்தவனோடு ...
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What's a formal-noun that means an unprincipled, unpleasant person?
I am trying to find a word that can be used in formal situations for referring to an unprincipled, unpleasant person. I'm looking for a more formal or civil way to say this, rather than the uncivil “...
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Word to describe someone who takes their experience as absolute truths [closed]
For example, say that this individual personally knows 5 doctors and and all of them are very bad in character. Therefore this person assumes that all doctors must be like that.
This person has had a ...
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Word or phrase for the act of making statements for the purpose of invoking reaction or response? [duplicate]
It seems to be this passive form of communication. These people will often have the tendency to be quite passive/passive aggressive personality-wise.
For example, this person may walk into a room and ...
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What's an almost-sympathetic term for "terrorists, pedophiles, neo-Nazis, etc" that an anthropologist might use?
Looking for a term, not "radical" or "extremist" - but something that encompasses Nazis, Pedophiles, Terrorists, etc.
As an example, a psychologist might reference that "My ...
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Is there a single word for a person who loves colours in general?
I’ve been searching for a bit and cannot find a word that means “someone who loves colours” or “someone who enjoys all colours” or something like that.
All I get are adjectives to describe people who ...
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A word for "a message to myself"
I am looking for a concise way to write “a message to myself”. Message could be replaced with letter or mail. In context, I'm using this word to represent a digital message I have written to myself ...
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What do you call a person who is resistant to new technology [duplicate]
Does a word exist that describes someone who is either
a) resistant to,
b) afraid of,
or
c) refuses to learn
new technology?
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What do you call someone who always makes the conversation about themselves? [duplicate]
For example, let's say I am starting a story about something that happened to me, and in the middle of the story, they start like "oh, the same thing happened to me when I was..." and start ...
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Word for a "urban parasite"
can you please define a word for a someone who comes from the small city to the big one just to make own life better? This person must be local citizen, but it keeps rude thinking, does not want to ...
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Single word for people having romance over skin tone, fame and money?
Besides for "gold digger" or "friends with benefits", is there any single word to refer to people who want to have a romance because of the other person's money or fame, or for the ...
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Is there one word/phrase for a village or city that is recently established?
I am looking for a word or phrase or even something like a idiom to describe a city or village or a colony that has been newly or freshly established and thus does not things like government or a well ...
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What's a word that describes a person who reminds you of the good things they did for you?
I don't know if such a word exists in the English language. In the Bisaya language of the Visayas region in the Philippines where I belong, there is a verb that describes exactly that. I can't find ...
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What do you call someone who gives little time to complete work?
What do you call someone who gives little time to complete work? For example, a teacher who asks for a submission on a difficult project within just a few days.
Example sentence:
That teacher is ...
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Is there a word that means "someone that was betrayed"
There's a word for someone that betrays, eg. the traitor and I wondered, is there a specific, single english word that means, "someone that was a victim of a betrayal"? So something that isn't broad ...
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Looking for a word for a coward who claims credit for the heroic acts of others
Someone who doesn't do anything required or expected but takes credit for having performed heroic deeds.
I have considered 'cowardly', but it doesn't convey the complete meaning.
An example ...
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Word used to describe a person's non-physical presence
What word could I use to describe a person who is dominating not only physically but also in knowledge, experience, and comprehension; someone who has a vast amount of experience?
Example of a ...
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Is there a term for "enforcing rules you don't understand"? [duplicate]
Today I was scolded for leaving my access card at home for the second time. From my point of view, this causes about 10 seconds of work for the people at the reception. When I asked why this would be ...
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What do you call a person that goes for functionality, yet not for the beauty of set things?
What do you call a person that goes for functionality, yet not for the beauty of set things?
For example in a game, this person builds things that are well made and functioning, but lack on the ...
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Insult for someone who "doesn't know anything" [closed]
How do you call/insult someone who doesn't know anything (meaning not the simplest/basic or obvious things)?
Context: I need it in a dialog of the following form:
A: How does <very simple/obvious ...
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