copacetic

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My trip was significantly less copacetic - due to "fog" (read: noxious pollution) at Pudong no planes were landing.

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  1. adjective Very satisfactory or acceptable; fine: "You had to be a good judge of what a man was like, and the English was copacetic” (John O'Hara).

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  • But he ignored all that and treated me like everything was copacetic, smiling and grinning and telling me how great my stuff was. —  F ;SF - vol 098 issue 04 - April 2000
  • This is not to suggest that everything is suddenly copacetic between the two nations. —  Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
  • Saving Abel are part of the messed-up new generation of post-Molly Hatchet southern-rockers, struggling to get porno chicks and find their way in a world where it's not copacetic for bands to come right out and say they're mostly in it for porno chicks and pinching out totally awesome guitar solos. —  SpikeMagazine.com
  • Even smart, proudly rational people engaged in magical thinking, acting as if the new power of the Internet and its New Economy would miraculously make everything copacetic again. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • TV critics and Emmy voters don't always see eye to eye, but when it comes to the delights of Don Draper, the two camps are completely copacetic. —  TVBizwire
 

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