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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bêtise’.
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
babeldom, baccate, bacchanal, bacciferous, bacciform, baccivorous, bacillicide, backstay, bactericide, baculiform, baculine, baculum and 582 more...
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queintise pectise quantise
demephitising (purifying the air) about practise
lemmatise, infinitise, decatise, cotise, cottise, bêtise, practise, queintise, demephitise, dolomitise, agatise, quaintise and 40 more...
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Uncle John’s Interesting Words
Words I find interesting.
abecedarius, acomoclitic, aperçu, apophenia, aspic, bêtise, bhang, callipygian, calque, carking, cataphract, ceruminous and 97 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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speaking in tongues
schadenfreude, naïve, gnosis, sangfroid, capisce, flagrante delicto, lux, veritas, gravitas, coquette, panache, nom de plume and 73 more...
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Things That Drive Me Nuts That I Am S...
quodlibetarianism, poshlost, porlock, pickthank, philopolemicism, pettifogulizing, perissology, periphrasis, parisology, macrology, muffishness, nescience and 19 more...
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mmmarilyn's Words
bibliophile, sangfroid, menace, susurrus, raconteur, odyssey, bedraggled, rapacious, slattern, merkin, moxie, travelogue and 15 more...
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the Collected Poems of W.H. Auden
being words used by dear Wystan, who had a far better vocabulary than I.
levin, gangrel, quiddity, palaver, palliardising, oppidan, phut, pococurante, epithalamium, teratoid, tautological, enantiomorph and 72 more...
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jmjarmstrong JM knows that using the word 'bêtise' in his status update is a bêtise. Jan 19, 2010
drspork n. a silliness or fooling-about, mistake
my French students use this word all the time in reference to something they're not meant to have done. Nov 26, 2007