esurient
[ih-SUR-ee-uhnt]
adjective
Hungry; greedy.
Those esurient pricks on Wall Street really goosed us, didn’t they? But we’ve forgotten all about it.
kith
[KITH]
noun
Persons living in the same general locality and forming a more or less cohesive group…
casuistry
[KAZH-oo-uh-stree]
noun
Specious, deceptive, or oversubtle reasoning.
Google and Verizon’s little “we’ll opt to be regulated by regulation we wrote ourselves” manifesto is fucking casuistry on a grand scale.
sinecure
[SIN-ih-kyur]
noun
An office or position that requires or involves little or no responsibility.
The boss wants a handjob once a week, but the money’s good and other than that, it’s a real sinecure.
esurient
[ih-SUR-ee-uhnt]
adjective
Hungry; greedy.
Those esurient pricks on Wall Street really goosed us, didn’t they? But we’ve forgotten all about it.
leitmotif
[LYT-moh-teef]
noun
A dominant and recurring theme.
Sliding her finger into her pussy and then into her own mouth is just one of many leitmotifs that Carrie Prejean utilized during her sex tape.
parvenu
[PAR-vuh-noo]
noun
One that has recently or suddenly risen to a higher social or economic class but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class…