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a socially awkward or tactless act
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The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.The act of adding; application; accretion.
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.Capable of being confused.
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a des…
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.a grammar that is produced by descriptive linguistics
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art conc…
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another.
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.Liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived.
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community; "a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers…
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
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To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.See Awkward.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.Odd; out of order; perverse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiven…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.Bungling; awkward.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.of Bungle
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.Clumsy; awkward.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.Stiff or benumbed, as with cold.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: socially, awkward, tactless.
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