| canny |
difficult to fool or take advantage of; shrewd; wary; clever. |
| condone |
to pardon, disregard, or overlook voluntarily or without condemning. |
| curmudgeon |
an irritable or ill-tempered person. |
| decedent |
in law, one who has died. |
| demarcate |
to set apart or separate, as if with boundaries. |
| disheveled |
not neat; messy. |
| equivocal |
having at least two plausible alternative meanings, often intentionally so in order to deceive or avoid commitment; ambiguous. |
| indolence |
the tendency to avoid exertion or effort; laziness. |
| invidious |
tending to arouse feelings of resentment or animosity, especially because of a slight; offensive or discriminatory. |
| irrefragable |
impossible to refute or dispute; undeniable. |
| kismet |
destiny, fortune, or fate. |
| laconic |
using very few words; succinct; terse. |
| raffish |
carelessly unconventional or disreputable, sometimes appealingly so. |
| recidivism |
chronic return to bad habits, especially criminal relapse. |
| uxorial |
of, pertaining to, or befitting a wife. |