PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
Ambrose BierceAcquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose BierceOBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .
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