# 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:** 50

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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 16, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/981 "2020-01-16T13:48:49Z")

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1. The penance, chastisement and rebuke which the capable of making adjustments that resemble those resulting from human decisions, chiefly by means of electronic sensors and computer technology folk experience physical or mental pain or distress, who indicate or show that one is _mule-headed about taking part_ in a rules-based structure of decision-making, control and administration, is to live under the suzerainty of thieves, thugs and rascals.

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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 16, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/982 "2020-01-16T14:12:25Z")

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1. The penance, chastisement and rebuke which the capable of making adjustments that resemble those resulting from human decisions, chiefly by means of electronic sensors and computer technology folk experience physical or mental pain or distress, who indicate or show that one is mule-headed about taking part in a rules-based structure of decision-making, control and administration, is to live under the suzerainty of thieves, _professional robbers and murderers in India who strangled their victims_ and rascals.

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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 16, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/983 "2020-01-16T14:21:14Z")

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1. The _sacrament of receiving absolution for confessed sins_, chastisement and rebuke which the capable of making adjustments that resemble those resulting from human decisions, chiefly by means of electronic sensors and computer technology folk experience physical or mental pain or distress, who indicate or show that one is mule-headed about taking part in a rules-based structure of decision-making, control and administration, is to live under the suzerainty of thieves, professional robbers and murderers in India who strangled their victims and rascals.

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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 16, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/984 "2020-01-16T14:46:53Z")

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1. The sacrament of receiving absolution for confessed sins, chastisement and rebuke which the capable of making adjustments that resemble those resulting from human decisions, chiefly by means of electronic sensors and computer technology folk experience physical or mental pain or distress, who indicate or show that one is mule-headed about taking part in a rules-based structure of decision-making, control and administration, is to live under the suzerainty of thieves, professional robbers and murderers in India who strangled their victims, and _mischievous or impish rogues._

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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 16, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/985 "2020-01-16T15:43:20Z")

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1. The sacrament of receiving absolution for confessed sins, chastisement and rebuke which the capable of making adjustments that _mirror_ those resulting from human decisions, chiefly by means of electronic sensors and computer technology folk experience physical or mental pain or distress, who indicate or show that one is mule-headed about taking part in a rules-based structure of decision-making, control and administration, is to live under the suzerainty of thieves, professional robbers and murderers in India who strangled their victims, and mischievous or impish rogues.

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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 16, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/986 "2020-01-16T16:43:35Z")

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1. The sacrament of receiving absolution for confessed sins, chastisement and _harsh criticism_ which the capable of making adjustments that mirror those resulting from human decisions, chiefly by means of electronic sensors and computer technology folk experience physical or mental pain or distress, who indicate or show that one is mule-headed about taking part in a rules-based structure of decision-making, control and administration, is to live under the suzerainty of thieves, professional robbers and murderers in India who strangled their victims, and mischievous or impish rogues.

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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 16, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/987 "2020-01-16T19:49:13Z")

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1. The sacrament of receiving absolution for confessed sins, chastisement and harsh criticism which the capable of making adjustments that mirror those resulting from human decisions, chiefly by means of electronic sensors and computer technology _proletariat_ experience physical or mental pain or distress, who indicate or show that one is mule-headed about taking part in a rules-based structure of decision-making, control and administration, is to live under the suzerainty of thieves, professional robbers and murderers in India who strangled their victims, and mischievous or impish rogues.

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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 16, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/988 "2020-01-16T23:56:41Z")

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1. The sacrament of receiving absolution for confessed sins, chastisement and harsh criticism which the capable of making adjustments that mirror those resulting from human decisions, chiefly by means of electronic sensors and computer technology proletariat experience physical or mental pain or distress, who indicate or show that one is mule-headed about taking part in a rules-based structure of decision-making, control and administration, is to live under the suzerainty of _those who con, grift and steal_, professional robbers and murderers in India who strangled their victims, and mischievous or impish rogues.

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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 17, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/989 "2020-01-17T01:05:56Z")

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1. The sacrament of receiving absolution for confessed sins, chastisement and harsh criticism which the capable of making adjustments that mirror those resulting from human decisions, chiefly by means of electronic sensors and computer technology proletariat experience physical or mental pain or distress, who indicate or show that one is mule-headed about taking part in a rules-based structure of decision-making, control and administration, is to live under the suzerainty of those who con, grift and steal, professional robbers and murderers in _the subcontinental home of Bollywood_ who strangled their victims, and mischievous or impish rogues.

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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 17, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/990 "2020-01-17T01:53:58Z")

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1. The sacrament of receiving absolution for confessed sins, chastisement and harsh criticism which the capable of making adjustments that mirror those resulting from human decisions, chiefly by means of electronic sensors and computer technology proletariat experience physical or mental pain or distress, who indicate or show that one is mule-headed about taking part in a rules-based structure of decision-making, control and administration, is to live under the suzerainty of those who con, grift and steal, _engaged in an activity as a paid occupation_ robbers and murderers in the subcontinental home of Bollywood who strangled their victims, and mischievous or impish rogues.

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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 17, 2020, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/991 "2020-01-17T09:31:45Z")

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1. The sacrament of receiving absolution for confessed sins, chastisement and harsh criticism which the capable of making adjustments that mirror those resulting from human decisions, chiefly by means of electronic sensors and computer technology proletariat experience physical or mental pain or distress, who indicate or show that one is mule-headed about taking part in a rules-based structure of decision-making, control and administration, is to live under the suzerainty of those who con, grift and steal, engaged in an activity as a paid occupation robbers and murderers in the subcontinental _house, apartment, or other building, or alternatively a mobile home, houseboat, yurt or any other portable shelter_ of Bollywood who strangled their victims, and mischievous or impish rogues.

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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 17, 2020, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/992 "2020-01-17T09:56:55Z")

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1. The _communion_ of receiving absolution for confessed sins, chastisement and harsh criticism which the capable of making adjustments that mirror those resulting from human decisions, chiefly by means of electronic sensors and computer technology proletariat experience physical or mental pain or distress, who indicate or show that one is mule-headed about taking part in a rules-based structure of decision-making, control and administration, is to live under the suzerainty of those who con, grift and steal, engaged in an activity as a paid occupation robbers and murderers in the subcontinental house, apartment, or other building, or alternatively a mobile home, houseboat, yurt or any other portable shelter of Bollywood who strangled their victims, and mischievous or impish rogues.

J. Robert Oppenheimer  
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

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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 17, 2020, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/993 "2020-01-17T12:39:19Z")

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1. In some sort of crude _faculty, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch,_ which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

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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 17, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/994 "2020-01-17T15:09:28Z")

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1. In some sort of crude faculty, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, which no vulgarity, no _yukking it up_, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

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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 17, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/995 "2020-01-17T16:16:40Z")

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1. In some sort of crude faculty, as sight, hearing, _effluvium_, taste, or touch, which no vulgarity, no yukking it up, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

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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 17, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/996 "2020-01-17T16:21:35Z")

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1. In some sort of \*ill-mannered \*faculty, as sight, hearing, effluvium, taste, or touch, which no vulgarity, no yukking it up, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

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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 17, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/997 "2020-01-17T16:46:24Z")

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1. In some sort of ill-mannered faculty, as sight, hearing, effluvium, taste, or touch, which no vulgarity, no yukking it up, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known _free-will transgression of divine law_; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

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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 17, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/998 "2020-01-17T20:06:49Z")

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1. In some sort of ill-mannered faculty, as sight, hearing, effluvium, taste, or touch, which no vulgarity, no yukking it up, no overstatement can quite _douse, quench or snuff out,_ the physicists have known free-will transgression of divine law; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

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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 17, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/999 "2020-01-17T21:06:02Z")

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1. In some sort of ill-mannered faculty, as sight, hearing, effluvium, taste, or touch, which no vulgarity, no yukking it up, no overstatement can quite douse, quench or snuff out, the physicists have known free-will transgression of divine law; and this is a knowledge which they cannot _be taken to the cleaners._

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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 18, 2020, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/1000 "2020-01-18T09:42:55Z")

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1. In some sort of ill-mannered faculty, as sight, hearing, effluvium, taste, or touch, which no vulgarity, no yukking it up, no overstatement can quite douse, quench or snuff out, the physicists have known free-will transgression of divine law; and this is\* an awareness\* which they cannot be taken to the cleaners.

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