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Britishisms 46 hackneyed clichés 46 vagary 46 nonsense syllables 46 cogitations 46 simple declarative sentences 46 adverbial 46 keenly observant 46 overlong 46 schoolmasterly 46 shapelessness 46 splenetic 46 stingingly 46 abjection 46 sheepishness 46 tongue twisting lyrics 46 snappy repartee 46 rhetorical overkill 46 uncinematic 46 deliciously subversive 46 Menand 46 tedium 46 Camera Lucida 46 sophomoric humor 46 sheer silliness 46 plural pronouns 46 Ranjit Bolt 46 diagramming sentences 46 nonintuitive 46 intricate wordplay 46 diacritical marks 46 eloquence 46 ratiocination 46 sensical 46 Aphorisms 46 Mahlerian 46 slavishness 46 interpolations 46 Brooksian 46 www.merriam webster.com 46 inelegant 46 syllogisms 46 willful delusion 46 unoriginality 46 forgivable sin 46 Althusser 46 gnomic 46 genuflections 46 easily decipherable 46 Egocentric 46 psychobabble 46 incoherence 46 diffidence 46 sketchily drawn 46 pugnacity 46 verbalization 46 sly humor 46 refreshingly straightforward 46 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historicism 45 acrostics 45 ingenuousness 45 incantatory 45 dourness 45 unconventionality 45 singable melodies 45 prissily 45 unlikable characters 45 priests bullying schoolmasters 45 Rebuttals 45 Slyly 45 plural nouns 45 coinages 45 banal 45 Bombast 45 impenetrability 45 le bourgeois 45 Dorothy Sayers