This week's theme
Insults

This week's words
flagitious
thewless
flaneur
prima donna
cunctator

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PRONUNCIATION:

(THYOO-lis)

MEANING:

adjective
1. Cowardly.
2. Lacking energy.

ETYMOLOGY:

From thew (muscle, strength), from Old English theaw (custom, usage). Earliest documented use: before 1327.

USAGE:

"The devil, the heathen, the apostate will be awe-struck, thewless before our superior metal."
Irv C. Rogers; Motoo Eetee: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World; McBooks Press; 2002.

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