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"Cantankerous"
/kanˈtaNGk(ə)rəs/
adjective
bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative.
"a crusty, cantankerous old man"

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Sophist

noun
(often initial capital letter)Greek History.
any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation.
a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
a person who reasons adroitly and speciously rather than soundly.
a philosopher.


LE TEMPS DETRUIT TOUT.

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Dissonance
(noun)
a tension or clash resulting from the combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements.
"dissonance between campaign rhetoric and personal behavior"

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I know a few posters who are…..cantankerous. *snickers*

If I get pulled over, it better be a gay policeman riding on a unicorn.

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If I get pulled over, it better be a gay policeman riding on a unicorn.
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