| baleful |
threatening harm; full of malice; ominous. |
| banal |
lacking originality or liveliness; disappointingly ordinary; commonplace; trite. |
| belie |
to give a false impression of. |
| boorish |
rude; ill-mannered; crude. |
| extirpate |
to get rid of completely, as if by pulling up the roots; root out. |
| gossamer |
delicately fine, gauzelike, or filmy. |
| hackneyed |
made trite or commonplace by overuse, as an expression or phrase. |
| heterodox |
deviating from an officially approved belief or doctrine, especially in religion. |
| immaculate |
not dirty; completely clean. |
| internecine |
of or pertaining to conflict, discord, or struggle within a group. |
| meretricious |
appealing or attracting in a cheap, showy, or shallow way. |
| quondam |
having been in the past; former. |
| raffish |
carelessly unconventional or disreputable, sometimes appealingly so. |
| rodomontade |
puffed-up boasting or bravado. |
| triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. |