Verb:

• To ridicule, mock, discredit. [W]

‘At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn’t developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports’ Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as “crap” and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether.’ [X]

Adverb:

• Without showing fear or indecision; resolutely. [W]

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. 

-English Proverb

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Noun:

• The practice of favoring one’s close friends, especially in political appointments. [Dictionary.com]

‘Whistleblower’ claims cronyism and fear at ICANN

A word I’ve been looking for. Seriously. 

Adjective:

• Greedy; ravenous.
• Subsisting on live prey. [TheFreeDictionary]

DF:

‘The difference between Google’s predatory rapaciousness today and Microsoft’s of yore is that Microsoft wore it on their sleeve, they owned it, celebrated it.’

‘Microsoft’s of yore’. So eloquent. 

Noun:

• An injury or wrong.

[W]

Noun:

• The crime or tort of intentionally striking another person. [W]

‘Last week, the guy in charge of the Air Force’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response office was charged with sexual battery.’ [NextDraft]

Btw, if you have room in your inbox for a top notch newsletter, subscribe to Dave Pell’s NextDraft. It’s quite great. 

Verb:

• To deceive or trick. [W]

‘Don’t let them hornswoggle you into buying anything you don’t need.’

Like it. 

phantomvampstarkid:

I wish more people used the word “shirking” It is a pretty legitimate word.

TO SHIRK

Verb:

• To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from. [W]

‘If you have a job, don’t shirk from it and not show up at work.’

Noun:

• Unpleasantly cold or wet weather.

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Verb:

• To bring (something) into opposition with something else. [W]

‘But there’s nothing stupid about seeing Google being pitted “versus” other companies.’ [X]

Sacrebleu!

Don’t get offended if I don’t follow you back. In fact, I follow a lot of you guys (actually, mainly girls, sweet), but my main blog isn’t Raw English so you just don’t know if I’m following you or not. (My main blog is quite commercial, so I won’t advertise it here.)

Anyway, I’m in the process of separating the blogs to different accounts (I found a way). I follow a bunch of you back when it’s done. It will not take more than two years, I promise. 

Summing it up, thanks all for following Raw English. I never really thought that people would actually start to follow this blog, because initially I put this up only to serve as a self-learning experiment.

(Btw, it works like a dream.)

Damn it, one more thing. Sorry about the filler reblog stuff. I want to keep this blog consistent, and there’s simply not enough English words that I don’t know which are worthy of this somewhat super awesome Tumblr log (yep, I’m gettin’ cocky.)