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What would you call someone who imposes on other people's generosity?
What would you call someone who isn't afraid to ask for money or any kind of favor or who misinterprets someone's generosity for a consistent resource for what they need?
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What is a word that means "someone who pretends to be your friend but is actually your enemy?"
What do you call someone who pretends to be your friend but is actually your enemy?
A friend suggested spy for me, but that does not nearly describe the word I need for an English project. The ...
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Word for someone who acts like an expert but who has very little knowledge?
What is a word to describe an individual who acts like an expert in a subject area, constantly stating facts and correcting people, but who actually has very little knowledge on the subject?
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What would you call a person who doesn't want to learn anything new?
What would you call a person who doesn't want to learn new things and even maybe thinks that this is unnecessary since he knows enough already? An ignorant person?
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Is there a word for a "promise breaker"?
I'm somewhat vexed in that I cannot think of a word that means a "promise breaker" or "person who breaks a promise". There are words that may subsume that, such as "miscreant" or "liar", but I cannot ...
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What is the term describing someone who has interest in only a narrow field, and nothing else?
There are some people who have interests in only some narrow field, and are not interested in anything else:
physicians who heal only ears, and for whom the stomach doesn't matter
clerks who know all ...
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Word for someone who is ignorant and proud?
Many a times, we tend to meet someone who is ignorant yet arrogant; to the extent that they can go a long way blabbing about something they don't really know with so much vigour. What can you refer to ...
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Is there a word to describe someone who tends to disagree with others only to upset them?
What's the word to describe someone who acts arrogantly and always disagrees with others unreasonably in order to upset people around him/her?
[I'm not looking for adjectives like unpleasant, ...
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English word for taking a derogatory term and owning it with pride
E.g. "geek" or "queer" were originally meant as an insulting term, but were taken by the recipients as titles of pride.
Is there a term for this phenomenon?
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What word describes someone who offers unsolicited advice?
What word describes someone who offers unsolicited advice?
For example I might write:
"At the risk of being called a [..........], I will offer you some unsolicited advice."
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Is there a word for someone who tends to find faults in others?
I'm looking for a single word, for someone who...
keeps seeing everything that is wrong with everybody else.
never seems to see the good of other people, only the bad things.
points at others, as if ...
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Word for someone who thinks they can do anything, and believes everything they do is right but others are wrong
If someone thinks they are always doing the right thing, and believes others are wrong, what would I call them?
Say, for example, I did something that person considers wrong. But then on another ...
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One's brilliant vocabulary and a tendency to show it off [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s a big-vocabulary word for someone with a big vocabulary?
There are people who are blessed with a remarkable knowledge of vocabulary and diction – people who can come up ...
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What is a word that could define someone who likes to cause conflict?
What would you call someone who does things knowing specifically that his/her actions will cause pain and/or conflict or completes an action just to get someone in trouble or hurt them?
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