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Bugger

One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.

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Copulate 76% connected

Joined; associated; coupled.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Couple 76% connected

That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Degenerate 76% connected

Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Deviant 76% connected

Deviating.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Deviate 76% connected

To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mate 76% connected

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pair 76% connected

A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Fou…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pervert 76% connected

To turnanother way; to divert.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sod 92% connected

of Seethe

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Sodomite 92% connected

An inhabitant of Sodom.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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