Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of éminence grise.
Examples
“A telling defection in Congress was that of Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, the foreign policy eminence grise of the Republican Party.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eminence grise’.
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Politrix
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
vexillology, blowback, impunity, extraterritoriality, plenipotentiary, filibuster, pundit, jingoistic, gerrymander, swiftboat, espionage, ipsedixitism and 151 more...
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chromatic phrases
blue movie, brown study, purple prose, rosy scenario, golden mean, eminence grise, white nights, bronze age, silver bullet, orange juice, black death, technicolor yawn and 188 more...
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____JUICEBOX's list
A rather grandiloquent list of pretty words. :D
lucubrator, logomachize, lethologica, lalochezia, illeism, inaniloquent, logonamnosis, hirrient, griffonage, fysigunkus, eccedentesiast, edacious and 64 more...
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Bonjour, cheese-eating surrender monk...
aka words we stole from the French
jejune, odalisque, puissant, sobriquet, minatory, remand, marauding, pullet, paragon, sanguine, parvenu, en passant and 20 more...
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random furrin borrowings
gaucherie, robot, eminence grise, hoi polloi, feuilleton, rapprochement, cherchez la femme, hors de combat, je ne sais quoi, laissez-faire, apparatchik, bolshevik and 53 more...
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Politics as Usual
US political practices and ideas
family values, states' rights, compassionate con..., second homeless, effete liberals, glittering genera..., blitzcraig, vittersweet, dog-whistle, nattering nabobs ..., sound bites, social conservative and 40 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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peggyl's Words
diener, concupiscent, ephemeral, eminence grise, recursion, scupper, spall, accidie, rebarbative, eponym, semiotics, fulvous and 3 more...
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uberWENSCH's Words
glisten, uxorious, staccato, mellifluous, eminence grise, cuckold, brilliantine, stave, elan, porte cochere, donjon, ars and 61 more...
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Anglo through the looking-sphere.
Some non-English mots that are rather bon to drop into essays and other written things.
lay down misère, eminence grise, esprit d'escalier, veni vidi vici, aqua regia, raison d'être, carpe diem, doppelgänger, weltschmerz, jiko kanri, fait accompli, yum cha and 33 more...
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