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Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2025

Pettifogging (adjective)
pettifogging [ pet-ee-fog-ing, -faw-ging ]

adjective
1. insignificant; petty: pettifogging details.
2. dishonest or unethical in insignificant matters; meanly petty.

Related Words
frivolous, lesser, minor, narrow-minded

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Origin: First recorded in 1570–80; pettifog, -ing

Example Sentences
Experts were doubtful from the start of his pettifogging that he had reasonable grounds to bail out.
From Los Angeles Times

The Economist described his viewpoint succinctly: “He paints stewards of fair play — regulators and boards — as pettifogging enemies of progress,” wrote its pseudonymous business columnist “Schumpeter.”
From Los Angeles Times

The virtue of this concept is that it divorces essential protections from pettifogging debates over the definition of “employee.”
From Los Angeles Times

Last month, President Biden’s Education Department released 13 pages of pettifogging rules patently written to discourage and impede charter schools from accessing a $440 million federal program of support for charters.
From Washington Post

Mr. Johnson’s allies accuse the European Union of inflexibility in applying rules, a pettifogging lack of sensitivity to feelings in parts of Northern Ireland and vengeful hostility toward Britain for exiting the bloc.
From New York Times

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I saw my first garter snake and two snapping turtles near my local pond.

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gibus [jahy-buhs]

noun

1. opera hat, a collapsible top hat

examples

1. Ask little Tom Prig, who is there in all his glory, knows everybody, has a story about every one; and, as he trips home to his lodgings in Jermyn Street, with his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps, thinks he is the fashionablest young fellow in town, and that he really has passed a night of exquisite enjoyment. The Book of Snobs, 2006
2. Ispenlove stood leaning against the piano, as though intensely fatigued; he crushed his gibus with an almost savage movement, and then bent his large, lustrous black eyes absently on the flat top of it. Sacred and Profane Love, Arnold Bennett, 1899

origin

French gibus, from Gibus, name of its 19th century French inventor

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Name: stel

Age: 18+, somewhere between the DS and the 3DS

I mostly post about: things happening in my life and anything i'm making/thinking about

My hobbies are: drawing, writing, making/listening to music, playing guitar, making websites. i've also been trying to get back into learning japanese lately

My fandoms are: undertale/deltarune is the most consistent, but i do get super into other media now and then (some others: oneshot, ace attorney, steven universe, inscryption, murder drones)

I'm looking to meet people who: i jive with, and hopefully share some of my interests/hobbies

My posting schedule tends to be: every few days, depending on how busy i am

When I add people, my dealbreakers are:

those who support or feel neutrally about trump
anti-queer, racist, etc.
those who post/interact heavily with dead dove content
- incest and minor/adult ships make me very uncomfortable

Before adding me, you should know: i'm very bad at talking to people (possibly neurodivergent) but i do try my best

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Taken on 16 July 2023 at 19:27 US Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

Bunnies are of course going to favor weedy green lawns over elegant stone yards punctuated with waxy sculptural ornamentals. This one looks like an Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus); Marsh Rabbits (S. palustris) (1), tend to have shorter ears, and my neighborhood strikes me as a bit too far from the water to attract them during the dry season.

It’s on alert, reacting sensibly to the arrival of a member of the deadliest of the Thousand, and so this was the only shot I was able to get before it went PATWINNNG! under the seagrape bed (the round-leaved shrub at center right, bordered by white river rocks.)

(1) Today I Learned the scientific name of the Lower Keys Marsh Rabbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvilagus_palustris_hefneri

Yes; that Hugh Hefner funded endangered rabbit research, and was commemorated accordingly.

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Why, hello there, lovely people of Dreamwidth! My friends list has become a little quiet as of late, so I thought I'd try and find a few nice new individuals to get to know :)

Name: Tina

Age: I turn 37 years old in 20 days - you do the math :P

I mostly post about: my daily life (including pictures), anything that goes through my head and I feel like reflecting on, things I've done, occasional travel reports, weekly "What are you reading Wednesday" posts. My journal is very much a "real life" one, since I am not into fandom - it's more than okay if you are, though!

My hobbies are: Reading, listening to music, podcasts (mostly True Crime), taking walks, doing jigsaw puzzles (I just finished a 1000 piece one of the Iguazu Falls in South America), travelling, going to concerts, hanging out with friends, trying out new restaurants/cafés...

~~My fandoms are:~~ I don't have fandoms, so I'll just list a few favourites of mine

Music: lately I have been really into The Warning, The Last Dinner Party and Taylor Swift. Other bands/artists I like are: Within Temptation, Nightwish, Tegan & Sara, Amy Shark, Bring me the Horizon, A Day to Remember, Alan Doyle, Great Big Sea, Derina Harvey Band, Emilie Autumn, Kellie Loder, Freya Ridings, Ice Nine Kills, Florence & the Machine, Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan, DeathbyRomy...I love a great variety of music! Feel free to recommend me something you'd think I'd like ;)

Books: "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov, "The Wrong Boy" by Willy Russell, "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides, "The Future Of Another Timeline" by Annalee Newitz, anything by Eowyn Ivey, anything by Charlotte McConaghy (I can't wait to get my hands on her new one which just came out!), "The Kangaroo Chronicles" by Marc-Uwe Kling, "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf, and lots of thrillers/murder mysteries. I also admit that I still have a bit of nostalgia for the Harry Potter series, although I cannot with a good conscience read/watch/buy anything related to them anymore, for known reasons...

TV shows: Stranger Things, Wednesday, Son of a Critch (although I still need to watch the latest season!), Law & Order:SVU, Is it Cake?, This Hour Has 22 Minutes. A recent one that's made a huge impression on me was Adolescence, it was both shocking and thought-provoking. In the past I also enjoyed Pushing Daisies, The Nanny & Call the Midwife.

Movies: Anything starring Meryl Streep - I adore her &hearts; I am also a huge nerd for Godzilla and monster movies in general, under which I count all kinds of "animal horror" flicks. They are just fun to watch, even if most of them aren't very good xD
In general, I don't watch as many movies as other people seem to, but some other favourites are: Despicable Me series, Minions (yeah, I know, I'm so ~uncool...), The Secret Life Of Pets, 10 Lives, The Twelve Tasks of Asterix, Kinsey, Forrest Gump, If these Walls Could Talk II, The Chinese Botanist's Daughters, Creep 1 & 2. I like found footage-style horror movies a lot, too, even though I haven't seen that many of those yet. Again, feel free to rec me some :)

I'm looking to meet people who: are kind, empathetic, understanding and funny. While common interests are always a plus, they aren't necessary - some of my best friends I have met on here have had barely anything in common with me when it comes to the things we like :)
I love reading about what you love, what makes you happy, fascinates and motivates you on this journey called life ;)

Honestly, one of my favourite things about people is listening/reading/watching them talk about their passions, seeing their eyes light up and them just being happy and excited. It's wonderful to me in these cynical times when somebody isn't ashamed to show enthusiasm &hearts;

My posting schedule tends to be: daily/weekly/monthly/sporadic/etc.

I aim for at least once weekly, twice when you count my "What are you reading Wednesday". I also try my best to read my friends list and comment at least once a week...these past few months I have been quite stressed with various health problems which made me too exhausted a lot of the time. However, I am getting better and am determined to be a good DW friend now!

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: supporters of Trump and any of his ilk, and generally Far Right politics. I would say the usual bigotry but lbr, who thinks of themselves as a bigot? I am a huge proponent of "live and let live, as long as you don't harm others".

I have a few mental illnesses which means I can be quite sensitive and might post a rant or two once in a while. While I have gotten a lot better over the past couple years, mine is not a ~positive vibes only kind of journal, so if you want that, I am probably not the friend for you. That's not meant to sound mean, but I just want to feel comfortable writing about everything on my mind without worrying that it might become too much for somebody. Hope that makes sense?

Otherwise, I love meeting people from all walks of life - I am a curious person so it's great to be able to get a glimpse into the lives of people from all over the world and all kinds of lifestyles. Journalling has expanded my horizons quite a lot and made me grow as a person, which is fantastic.

Before adding me, you should know: I have a cat called Lucy, who I will post pictures of on a regular basis. So you better like cats :P

Phew, I think I pretty much covered enough ground here! I hope this didn't make anyone fall asleep, lol. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Also, please do comment on here before adding me, thank you very much!

Current Mood: excited
Current Location: Germany, Cologne
Current Music: In The Barn Of The Goat... - Volbeat

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Meadowfoam and mimulus out on the Ranch in Northern California.

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sacerdotal [sas-er-doht-l]

adjective:
of, relating to, or characteristic of priests
characterized by belief in the divine authority of the priesthood

Examples:

He seemed indeed a sacerdotal figure - a high priest who offered his own life before accepting the animal's. Every one of us was transfigured by the rite. (Christopher North, Taurine state of grace , The Critic, March 2021 )

After the reading - ‘Neither pray I for these alone...' - one of the ladies was so pleased with the sacerdotal language that she blew me a kiss across the aisle. (Jason Goodwin, 'When someone dies, you can lose a place, as well as a person', Country Life, June 2019)

In the meltdown's aftermath, a small unregulated bank is unusually suspect, especially when operating in a 'sacerdotal-monarchical state established under the 1929 Lateran Treaty' and reporting to an abstract nominee with an ethereal address. Nor can it help that the bank is a market-maker in loaves and fishes. (Matthew Stevenson, The Vatican Bank: In God We Trust?, newgeography, May 2013)

The brand inspires a sacerdotal devotion in many of its workers (its archives contain the papers of one of the atelier's premieres, or heads, who served from 1947 to 1990). (Matthew Schneier, Atop Dior, Balancing Art and Commerce, The New York Times, July 2017)

He would immerse himself in the sacerdotal labor of translation. (Joyce Carol Oates, The Tattooed Girl)

Vixeela herself had at one time been numbered among the virgins but had fled from the temple and from Uzuldaroum several years before the sacerdotal age of release from her bondage. (Clark Ashton Smith, The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles)

Having fixed upon this, I hired a little bark to Jubo, a place about forty leagues distant from Pate, on board which I put some provisions, together with my sacerdotal vestments, and all that was necessary for saying mass: in this vessel we reached the coast, which we found inhabited by several nations: each nation is subject to its own king; these petty monarchies are so numerous, that I counted at least ten in less than four leagues. (Father Lobo, A Voyage to Abyssinia)

One would almost imagine from the long list that is given of cannibal primates, bishops, arch-deacons, prebendaries, and other inferior ecclesiastics, that the sacerdotal order far outnumbered the rest of the population, and that the poor natives were more severely priest-ridden than even the inhabitants of the papal states. (Herman Melville, Typee)

Origin:

'of or belonging to priests or the priesthood,' c 1400, from Old French sacerdotal and directly from Latin sacerdotalis 'of or pertaining to a priest,' from sacerdos (genitive sacerdotis) 'priest,' literally 'offerer of sacrifices or sacred gifts,' from sacer 'holy' (see sacred) + stem of dare 'to give' (from PIE root do- 'to give'). (Online Etymological Dictionary)

Sacerdotal is one of a host of English words derived from the Latin adjective sacer, meaning 'sacred.' Other words derived from sacer include desecrate, sacrifice, sacrilege, consecrate, sacrament, and even execrable (developed from the Latin word exsecrari, meaning 'to put under a curse'). One surprising sacer descendant is sacrum, referring to the series of five vertebrae in the lower back connected to the pelvis. In Latin this bone was called the os sacrum, or 'holy bone,' a translation of the Greek hieron osteon. (Merriam-Webster)

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Hi! I created a community to share + discuss fanfiction for Baldur's Gate 3.

Find it here:

bg3fic

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They have recently appeared in our city on the pond near the Japanese Garden.

( Read more... )

For more information (in Russian), see here.

Current Location: Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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Ladramhaiola (Irish Gaelic): a day that was frittered away, despite one's planning to get a lot done

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Set off to follow the path through the oak woods in the rain. Only a gentle rain at first, not cold. Not much light this morning, but still the oaks and the birches bright with new leaves, and the woods full of the song of robins, blackbirds and thrushes.

( Come and get rained on )

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camila

Age:

I mostly post about:

whats on my mind, music ive been listening to, pics of my cat and random stuff lol

My hobbies are:

writing, discovering/jamming to music, reading

My fandoms are:

paramore, joost klein, fall out boy, senses fail and armor for sleep

I'm looking to meet people who:

are nice/kind and wont mind showing me new music, books, shows, etc

My posting schedule tends to be: daily/weekly/monthly/sporadic/etc

weekly/sporadic

When I add people, my dealbreakers are:

amy rude people, trump lovers lol, homophobes, racists, etc (basically all the -ists, and -ics you can think of lmao)

Before adding me, you should know: i post in a different language from time to time

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Looking Up by Paramore

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I sure do!

I’m something of an astronomy nerd; you have to understand that the great solar eclipse of 8 April 2024 was something I’d been counting down to my whole life. In my native Dayton, Ohio, I’d gotten to witness the strange begrimed 40-watt sunlight (1) and dappled crescent shadows of the partial solar eclipses of 10 May 1994 and 21 August 2017, after having gotten a fleeting confirmatory glance through SolarShields under welder’s goggles: the exercise was a bit like hunting basilisks or Medusa.

Another point is that I’m acutely homesick for the seasonal markers of the place where I spent 90+% of my life: the violets and wild chives and flowering crabapples, and the two equinoctial yellows of Moraine honeylocusts: neon chartreuse foliage in the spring, and in the fall flaming saffron—turning to orange piles of cornflake crunch beneath the feet. Even the lawn weeds here are unfamiliar.

Until a couple years in advance—by which time it was too late—I had not anticipated that, by the time the total solar eclipse at long last came to Dayton, I would be gone; behold the southern Gulf Coast of Florida’s experience of the Grand Portentuous Celestial Event.

( Continue. )

Current Music: ”Snuff Out The Light”.

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exigent, adj.

ex·i·gent ˈek-sə-jənt
ˈeg-zə-

1: requiring immediate aid or action

exigent circumstances

2: requiring or calling for much : demanding

an exigent client

Did you know?

Exigent is a formal word with meanings closely tied to its Latin forbear, exigere, meaning "to demand." Exigent things and people demand attention—for example, an exigent client expects so much that they are hard to satisfy, and exigent circumstances are so significant that they can be used to justify certain police actions without the warrant typically required. Before exigent joined the language in the early 1600s, the noun exigency was being used to refer to something that is necessary in a particular situation—for example, the exigencies of an emergency situation might require that certain usual precautions be ignored. That word dates to the late 1500s, but even earlier, in the mid-1400s, exigence was on the scene doing the same job. All three words—exigent, exigency, and exigence—continue to meet the demands of English users, albeit not frequently in everyday conversation.

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Link: Round 13 Sign Ups | Round 13 Themes

Description:

celebrity20in20 is a 20in20 community dedicated to making icons of actors and actresses. You have 20 days to make 20 icons about a celebrity of your choice, based on a set of themes for the round.

Schedule: Round 13 sign ups are open NOW. Icons are due May 7, 2025.

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I realized there was nowhere on Dreamwidth for SVU fans who love EO/Bensler (the Elliot/Olivia ship), so I created

bensler. I've kickstarted it with a post or two of my own, but I'd love other EO fans to join and post as well!

Tagged for adult content because the community is marked 18+ in order to be open to explicit fic and art.

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Pavlova - noun.

I sense a theme happening--today's word is another dessert, pavlova. One of those words often mentioned, but never really defined, a pavlova is a baked meringue topped with fruit and whipped cream. It has a fascinating history as it is a 20th century invention, named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova.

By Hazel Fowler - Own work, Public Domain, Link

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Name: Regis

Age:

I mostly post about:

my gay bipolar life with fandom news sprinkled in.

My fandoms are:

Doctor Who, Yu Yu Hakusho, Star Wars, MCU, DCU, Sherlock, Perry Mason, Murder She Wrote, Friday the 13th, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Gotham, Heroes, Tales from the Crypt, Gravity Falls, Junjou Romantica, Kyo Kara Moah, Monk, Columbo, Poirot, etc.

I'm looking to meet people who:

gay geeks and allies who can be a little kind with a guy with bipolar.

My posting schedule tends to be: daily/weekly/monthly/sporadic/etc

Lately it's been sporadic, but I am trying to fix that.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are:

NO TRUMP SUPPORTERS, BIGOTS OR HOMOPHOBOES,

Before adding me, you should know: My post can have a self-hatred spell from time to time. Just a warning.

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Name: Mekachu

Age:18+
(im closer to 40 than 30 at this point)

I mostly post about: im mostly archiving/backing up my stuff from all over the web, but i want to be more active in dw communities themselves.

My hobbies are: doodles, writing, cross stitch, minecraft

My fandoms are: one piece - kidd pirates mostly. but there's some others that come and go

I'm looking to meet people who: vibe with me. liking the silly little pirate show is nice, but i'm just looking for community of like minded people who want to bounce ideas around with me.

My posting schedule tends to be: i am aiming for at least one post - at least a sketch - every day.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are:

I will block anyone publicly stating they are under 18. I'm an 18+ blog -while i don't get into the smut often, i like to break my toys, and i want to be upfront about that. I'm a hurt/some times comfort writer, and i like me some whump.
Imma ship and let ship kinda person. dont yuck on my yum and i will respect yours just the same, even if i dont get it. If your the type that feels like harassing real people of their taste in fiction, we're best to just pass by without interacting, thank you.
also, Generative AI content creators will be blocked

Before adding me, you should know: i've spent a long time just yelling into the void. i may not knwo how to respond immediately if the void talks back. i'm overjoyed for interaction, but it might take me a minute to respond

i am also still in the process of importing back logs from tumblr, so please pardon the dust.

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Tuesday word: Pettifogging

More signs of spring

Monday: gibus

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Bunny caught in passing on the lawn.

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Flowers

Sunday Word: Sacerdotal

Baldur's Gate 3 Fanfic Community

The black swans are already in Tashkent

Friday word: Ladramhaiola

In the April woods

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Remember where you were and what you were doing on 8 April 2024?

Thursday word: Exigent

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EO/Bensler fan community (SVU)

Wednesday Word: Pavlova

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