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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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