Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Flattering: parasitical.
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete flattering; deceitful
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Flattering; deceitful.
Etymologies
- Latin Gnatho, name of a parasite in the Eunuchus of Terence, Ancient Greek; hence, a parasite in general. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It looks, in fact, as though I was wrong--at least in the short term--about the "gnathonic media.”
“The anvil chorus of the gnathonic media and their coprophagic gossip columnists soi-disant "journalists" whose conservative exudates have imbrued the age with their mephitic poison, one that might yet prove fatal to us all—may just this once be muted, there being little further to be gained from their unguinous ministrations.”
“That Jack's is somewhat of a gnathonic and parasitic soul, or stomach, all Bideford apple-women know; but I suspect more than Deus Venter has brought him hither.”
“Jack’s is somewhat of a gnathonic and parasitic soul, or stomach, all Bideford apple-women know; but I suspect more than”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gnathonic’.
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phrontistery - g
from phrontistery.info
gabardine, gabbart, gabble, gabbro, gabelle, gabion, gablock, gad, gadarene, gadoid, gadroon, gadzookery and 439 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Abecedarian Insult List
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apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebro, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ityphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose and 12 more...
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YO FAV WORDS HERE
solipsism, manticore, cameleopard, milquetoast, rapscallion, nostrum, lackadaisy, speakeasy, rumrunner, hydrophoby, dithyramb, avarice and 85 more...
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Eponyms Spelling Bee List
need to learn these words!!!!!!!!!!!
praline, hosta, salmonella, tortoni, gardenia, zinnia, samaritan, jeremiad, shrapnel, boswell, Fletcherism, bandersnatch and 41 more...
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gnarlie
gn- words
gnarl, gnaw, gnash, gnat, gneiss, gnu, gnocci, gnostic, gnome, gnosis, gnathic, gnotobiotic and 3 more...
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Orphic Arcana
These abstruse sesquipedalia furnish the perspicacious elocutionist with amaranthine jocundity.
abstruse, sesquipedalia, perspicacious, elocutionist, amaranthine, jocundity, exiguous, vecordious, contumacious, apodictic, apodeictic, trenchant and 19 more...
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dark words
Words that are just a bit dark and grainy..
saturnine, effete, vespertine, gnathonic, abstruse, inferno, sacrilege, melpomene, morose, lethe, anomie, extirpate and 3 more...
Tweets
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trivet obsequious, toadying, parasitical, and deceitful
What fun words to describe such unpleasant behavior! Feb 26, 2007