# Thesaurus

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [July 19, 2016, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309 "2016-07-19T12:24:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 45

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/881 "2020-01-07T01:03:14Z")

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1. This personage who is speaking is the sure-enough individual of specified _distinctive mental and moral qualities_ who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor of a state-of-the-art binary system commander of a very large land-warfare military unit.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/882 "2020-01-07T03:45:52Z")

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1. This personage who is speaking is the sure-enough individual of specified distinctive mental and moral qualities who poses for a photographer or _someone whose job is to paint surfaces, such as walls and doors_ or sculptor of a state-of-the-art binary system commander of a very large land-warfare military unit.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/883 "2020-01-07T05:15:43Z")

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1. _Yours truly, now flapping his gums,_ is the sure-enough individual of specified distinctive mental and moral qualities who poses for a photographer or someone whose job is to paint surfaces, such as walls and doors or sculptor of a state-of-the-art binary system commander of a very large land-warfare military unit.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/884 "2020-01-07T07:45:11Z")

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1. Yours truly, now flapping his gums, is the sure-enough individual of specified distinctive mental and moral qualities who poses for a photographer or someone whose job is to paint surfaces, such as walls and doors or _an artist who makes forms by chiseling, carving, modeling, casting, etc._ of a state-of-the-art binary system commander of a very large land-warfare military unit.

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/885 "2020-01-07T10:20:18Z")

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1. Yours truly, now flapping his gums, is the sure-enough individual of specified distinctive mental and moral qualities who poses for a photographer or someone whose job is to paint surfaces, such as walls and doors or an artist who makes forms by chiseling, carving, modeling, casting, etc. of a state-of-the-art binary system commander of a very large land-warfare military\* individual thing or person regarded as single and complete but which can also form an individual component of a larger or more complex whole\*.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/886 "2020-01-07T12:38:50Z")

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1. Yours truly, now flapping his gums, is the sure-enough individual of specified distinctive mental and moral qualities who poses for a photographer or someone whose job is to paint surfaces, such as walls and doors or an artist who makes forms by chiseling, carving, modeling, casting, etc. of a state-of-the-art binary system commander of a very large land-warfare military individual thing or person regarded as _unmarried or not in a romantic relationship_ and complete but which can also form an individual component of a larger or more complex whole.

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/887 "2020-01-07T12:54:46Z")

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1. Yours truly, now flapping his gums, is the sure-enough individual of specified distinctive mental and moral qualities who poses for a photographer or someone whose job is to paint surfaces, such as walls and doors or an artist who makes forms by chiseling, carving, modeling, casting, etc. of a state-of-the-art binary system _member of a higher class in some orders of knighthood_ of a very large land-warfare military individual thing or person regarded as unmarried or not in a romantic relationship and complete but which can also form an individual component of a larger or more complex whole.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/888 "2020-01-07T14:19:41Z")

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1. Yours truly, now flapping his gums, is the sure-enough individual of specified distinctive mental and moral qualities who poses for a _shutterbug or papparazzo_ or someone whose job is to paint surfaces, such as walls and doors or an artist who makes forms by chiseling, carving, modeling, casting, etc. of a state-of-the-art binary system member of a higher class in some orders of knighthood of a very large land-warfare military individual thing or person regarded as unmarried or not in a romantic relationship and complete but which can also form an individual component of a larger or more complex whole.

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/889 "2020-01-07T16:42:29Z")

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1. Yours truly, now flapping his gums, is the sure-enough individual of specified distinctive mental and moral qualities who poses for a shutterbug or papparazzo or someone whose job is to paint surfaces, such as walls and doors or an artist who makes forms by chiseling, carving, modeling, casting, etc. of an _all the current rage_ binary system member of a higher class in some orders of knighthood of a very large land-warfare military individual thing or person regarded as unmarried or not in a romantic relationship and complete but which can also form an individual component of a larger or more complex whole.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/890 "2020-01-07T17:34:01Z")

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We had two #16s.

1. Yours truly, now flapping his gums, is the _(you may be most cordially assured)_ individual of specified distinctive mental and moral qualities who poses for a shutterbug or papparazzo or someone whose job is to paint surfaces, such as walls and doors or an artist who makes forms by chiseling, carving, modeling, casting, etc. of an all the current rage binary system member of a higher class in some orders of knighthood of a very large land-warfare military individual thing or person regarded as unmarried or not in a romantic relationship and complete but which can also form an individual component of a larger or more complex whole.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/891 "2020-01-07T18:18:28Z")

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1. Yours truly, now flapping his gums, is the (you may be most cordially assured) individual of specified distinctive mental and moral qualities who poses for a shutterbug or papparazzo or someone whose _upright man whose faith in God survived the test of repeated calamities_ is to paint surfaces, such as walls and doors or an artist who makes forms by chiseling, carving, modeling, casting, etc. of an all the current rage binary system member of a higher class in some orders of knighthood of a very large land-warfare military individual thing or person regarded as unmarried or not in a romantic relationship and complete but which can also form an individual component of a larger or more complex whole.

Pass, the last one was mine.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/892 "2020-01-07T18:34:24Z")

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Tell them in Sparta, passerby, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

1. Tell _our countrymen_ in Sparta, passerby, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/893 "2020-01-07T18:48:29Z")

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1. Tell our countrymen in Sparta, passerby, that here, obedient to their laws, we _bear false witness._

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/894 "2020-01-07T19:22:30Z")

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1. Tell our countrymen in Sparta, passerby, that here, _compliant and willing to obey their laws,_ we bear false witness.

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/895 "2020-01-07T19:41:30Z")

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1. Tell our countrymen in Sparta, passerby, that _at this place_, compliant and willing to obey their laws, we bear false witness.

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**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/896 "2020-01-07T19:47:25Z")

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1. _Convey this message to_ our countrymen in Sparta, passerby, that at this place, compliant and willing to obey their laws, we bear false witness.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/897 "2020-01-07T20:34:09Z")

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1. Convey this message to our _fellow citizens_ in Sparta, passerby, that at this place, compliant and willing to obey their laws, we bear false witness.

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/898 "2020-01-07T21:08:22Z")

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1. Convey this message to our fellow citizens in a martial nation of austerity, bereft of comfort or luxury, passerby, that at this place, compliant and willing to obey their laws, we bear false witness.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/899 "2020-01-07T22:12:22Z")

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1. Convey this message to our fellow citizens in a martial nation of austerity, bereft of comfort or luxury, _someone who is going past a particular place,_ that at this place, compliant and willing to obey their laws, we bear false witness.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/900 "2020-01-08T00:13:08Z")

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1. Convey this message to our fellow citizens in a martial nation of austerity, bereft of comfort or luxury, someone who is going past a particular place, that at _the proffered omphalos_, compliant and willing to obey their laws, we bear false witness.

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