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D daring, cordial, discerning, and optimistic darkness, dimness, dulness, and blackness deadly, destructive, fatal, and implacable deceit, delusion, treachery, and sham deep, abstruse, learned, and profound deficient, inadequate, scanty, and incomplete define, explain, determine, and circumscribe degrade, defame, humble, and debase delicacy, daintiness, tact, and refinement delicious, sweet, palatable, and delightful democracy, equality, justice, and freedom deny, dismiss, exclude, and repudiate deprive, dispossess, divest, and despoil describe, delineate, depict, and characterize designed, contrived, planned, and executed desperate, extreme, wreckless, and irremediable despicable, abject, servile, and worthless destructive, detrimental, deleterious, and subversive desultory, discursive, loose, and unmethodical [desultory = disconnected: haphazard] detestable, abominable, horrible, and hideous developed, revealed, measured, and tested difference, disagreement, discord, and estrangement difficult, arduous, intricate, and perplexing diffuse, discursive, rambling, and wordy diligence, attention, industry, and assiduity [assiduity = persistent application] disagreement, discrepancy, difference, and divergence disconsolate, desolate, pessimistic, and impossible discrimination, acuteness, insight, and judgment disgust, distaste, loathing, and abhorrence dissatisfied, rebellious, unsettled, and satirical distinct, definite, clear, and obvious distinguished, glorious, illustrious, and eminent disturbed, shaken, distressed, and bewildered docile, tractable, compliant, and teachable dogmatic, bigoted, libelous, and unsympathizing doubt, indecision, suspense, and perplexity dread, disgust, repugnance, and dreariness dreary, dispirited, unhappy, and peevish dry, lifeless, tiresome, and uninteresting dubious, equivocal, fluctuating, and uncertain dull, heavy, painstaking, and conscientious Dainty as flowers Dance like a wave of the sea Dark and deep as night Dark as pitch Dark trees bending together as though whispering secrets Dazzling white as snow in sunshine Deafening and implacable as some elemental force Dear as remembered kisses after death Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes Dearer than night to the thief Debasing fancies gather like foul birds Deep as the fathomless sea Deep dark well of sorrow Delicate as nymphs Denominational lines like stone walls Dependency had dropped from her like a cast-off cloak Despondency clung to him like a garment that is wet Destructive as the lightning flash Die like flies Dip and surge lightly to and fro, like the red harbor-buoy Disappearing into distance like a hazy sea Dissatisfaction had settled on his mind like a shadow Dissolve like some unsubstantial vision faded Do make a music like to rustling satin Dogging them like their own shadow Drop like a feather, softly to the ground Drowned like rats Dull as champagne |
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A Dictionary of Useful Phrases
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Here is a collection of excellent phrases and word combinations that you can use to add spice to your writings and speech. |
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