Daily Sentence

Each day the wordsmiths at Dictionary.com select one word to be the Word of the Day. But a word without a sentence is like a wingnut without a bolt—useless. Here, we give these words a proper home, and some dignity. Woof!
Jul 17
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Anodyne

Following her break-up, Sally delved ever deeper into her already deleterious despair, consuming gallon after gallon of anodyne Cherry Garcia and donning progressively meretricious clothing, a grievous combination indeed.

Jul 16
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Mephitic

Well pardon me, lady, if I didn’t notice the mephitic redolence emanating from my axilla but my olfactory sensibility is kind of shot ‘since that mortar went off in my face while I was serving the United States of America in VIET-FUCKING-NAM!

Jul 15
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Fiduciary

I suppose the Lionel Hampton Estate was justified in stripping me of my fiduciary duties as I did indeed swap the genius’ prized vibraphone for a box of truly atrocious Harry & David pears.

Jul 14
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Cupidity

I would have say that Mr. VonBraghton’s attempt to escape the materialistic avarice of the financial world by joining a monastery have pretty much backfired considering his voracious cupidity for enlightenment and his constant challenging of the other monks to Oneness competitions.

Jul 10
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Contemn

Any time I see an ash-ridden chimneysweep or a young gutterbum with a bulging ribs and a poor mouth, I do not contemn him, but rather thank God for creating such base people as they give me, a middling, dishonest disc jockey, a fighting chance of busting through those pearly gates once I pass into His realm.

Jul 08
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Troglodyte

Hey, don’t be so glum, look at the upsides of being trapped in the pre-Mesopotamian era: very affordable land, the potential to be as living Gods to the troglodytes, and plenty of Dodo meat.

Jul 07
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Gustatory

So, that’s how we found him, Officer; on the floor in a slurry of Spanish ham and vibrating eggs, reveling in gustatory reception… olfactory input… a veritable orgy of sensate experience, I tell you, and pretty much higher than anyone else on MDMA I’ve ever seen, that’s for damn sure.

Jul 02
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Laconic

Keeping with Tarkington Family tradition, Uncle Seamus left a laconic suicide note: “All done.”

Jul 01
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Condign

I would be more upset about the manner of my late husband Roger’s death if being slowly and fastidiously dissected, preserved, and labeled were not such a perfectly condign dissolution for that pedantic cocksucker.

Jun 30
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Indigent

Perhaps my favorite hobby is kidnapping four indigent gypsy children, bringing them aboard my schooner, throwing them overboard with their legs chained together, and then betting with my fellow Yale ‘58 buddies how long it will take one of them to drown the others and fashion their corpses into a raft (it’s never as long as you think).

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Indigent

I gave up the hoboin’ life not ‘cause I were loath to the squalor, or the indigence, or even the beatin’s what came from the richer, better folk; no I gave it up for two reasons and two reasons alone: bindle sticks and my almighty hatred of bindle sticks.

Jun 26
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Cockaigne

Sometimes when I’m looking around at all these young guys out here I think that if we put our all into it we could really forge a new way of life, a manifest Cockaigne here on these Earthly plains, but then the elevator doors close behind us and I realize, no, we’re all going to die in this fucking mine, Goddamn it.

Jun 25
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Forlorn

The west as I understand it, based solely on T.V. from the 60’s, frightens me: too many looming cacti, dusty/oily men, and forlorn ranch-hands.

Jun 24
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Glutinous

With that one glutinous nasal burst, I was no longer a multi-millionaire empyrean tycoon in the eyes of my colleagues, but a sniveling, humbled man, all too human.

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Glutinous

Days after I’d birthed the yak a film of its mother’s glutinous mucus still coated my palms, leading me to believe that what the Himalayans call soap is actually chalk or hardened guano.