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Word for the Day, Tuesday September 7, 2010

Posted on 09/07/2010 4:16:05 AM PDT by SoothingDave

Word For The Day, Tuesday, September 7, 2010



In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

animadversion [an-uh-mad-vur-zhuhn, -shuhn]

-n

1. an unfavorable or censorious comment
2. the act of criticizing

[1590–1600; < L animadversiōn- (s. of animadversiō ) a heeding, censure, equiv. to animadvers ( us ) (ptp. of animadvertere to heed, censure; see animadvert) + -iōn- -ion]


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1 posted on 09/07/2010 4:16:07 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Fierce Allegiance; JoanVarga; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; ...

Go.


2 posted on 09/07/2010 4:16:46 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

go where?


3 posted on 09/07/2010 4:17:14 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave
obams cannot abide animadversion, and even without it they are panicking.
4 posted on 09/07/2010 4:19:45 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave; NeoCaveman
lest anyone get carried away about November, read the comments here and realize the morons have not suddenly become brainiacs. there are still plenty of morons out there.
5 posted on 09/07/2010 4:29:09 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave
I'm with Issa and join the animadversion.How much money have they wasted patting themselves on the back?
6 posted on 09/07/2010 4:41:24 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden; SoothingDave
"How much money have they wasted patting themselves on the back?"

Just consider it a "tramp stamp" of sorts. It leaves a mark.

7 posted on 09/07/2010 4:45:45 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (Let's try a new interpretation, "Millions for defense but not one square foot for tribute!")
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To: SoothingDave

Geez, about time you people woke up.

Seconding xsmommy’s comment on Obama’s aversion to animadversion, on CNN today, he was quoted as saying:

“Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time and they’re not always happy with me. They talk about me like a dog. That’s not in my prepared remarks, but it’s true,” he told a crowd largely consisting of union members.

Soooooo, I guess it was always sweetness and light anytime anyone said anything about Bush?


8 posted on 09/07/2010 4:46:25 AM PDT by Explorer89 (Could you direct me to the Coachella Valley, and the carrot festival, therein?)
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To: xsmommy

That will teach me to click every link!! SNAP!


9 posted on 09/07/2010 4:47:15 AM PDT by Explorer89 (Could you direct me to the Coachella Valley, and the carrot festival, therein?)
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To: Explorer89

funny being 6 hours off huh?? LOL! hope last week went well for your kids. it has to be tough trying to break into a new, let alone foreign crowd like that. Do you have 3 kids?
and about his quote: everyone is acting like it’s an odd saying, to talk about someone like a dog. it’s definitely in the black vernacular, though i wouldn’t have thought exclusively so. i am very familiar with the term but they are acting like it was something weird to say on F&F.


10 posted on 09/07/2010 4:50:31 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

I think his reference to being treated like a dog is fairly mainstream.

Mostly I’m surprised because he has gotten so much of a pass thus far. Like I said, you want abuse? I used to feel sorry for W, because it was 24/7 abuse, non-stop.


11 posted on 09/07/2010 4:57:47 AM PDT by Explorer89 (Could you direct me to the Coachella Valley, and the carrot festival, therein?)
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To: Explorer89

the double standard is HUGE, and NEVER acknowledged by the dems. W was demonized, openly mocked, and assassination was commonly joked about. This one bawls like an infant if someone frowns at him.


12 posted on 09/07/2010 5:02:03 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Explorer89; xsmommy
"Like I said, you want abuse? I used to feel sorry for W, because it was 24/7 abuse, non-stop."

I'll know 0bama's had a sufficient amount of criticism when I start feeling sorry for him.

That might take a while yet.

13 posted on 09/07/2010 5:02:26 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (Let's try a new interpretation, "Millions for defense but not one square foot for tribute!")
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To: NicknamedBob

i don’t envision ever reaching that point in the next 2 years. no way the media is capable of turning on him to the extent that he would take even one iota of the abuse W took.


14 posted on 09/07/2010 5:04:08 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
"i don’t envision ever reaching that point in the next 2 years."

I've not even finished talking about his ears.

15 posted on 09/07/2010 5:07:47 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (Let's try a new interpretation, "Millions for defense but not one square foot for tribute!")
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To: SoothingDave

So, do you suffer from aminoadversion if you don’t like new-wave Japanese cartoons?


16 posted on 09/07/2010 5:35:40 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

that would be ANIMEadversion!


17 posted on 09/07/2010 5:41:35 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

AMINOadversion would be allergic reaction to amino acids.


18 posted on 09/07/2010 5:42:11 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; CholeraJoe
AMINOadversion would be allergic reaction to amino acids.

Basically, I think you're right.

19 posted on 09/07/2010 5:48:33 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: xsmommy

Sounds like little Barry missed his nap and is all cranky.


20 posted on 09/07/2010 5:50:12 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (I can see November from my house)
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