Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A parade featuring a progression of people wearing comic and grotesque costumes.
- n. A rhetorical device employing a series of progressively more terrible results following from an act.
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘parade of horribles’.
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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catch phrases
Slough of Despond, parade of horribles, audit trail, dope slap
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gleaned words
found words, that haven't found their proper place yet.
juggernaut, panopticon, superfluous, verfremdung, aleatory, googlewhack, palimpsest, petrosomatoglyph, epibiont, solipsism, zugzwang, ubiquitous and 500 more...
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Everyone Loves a Parade
junkanoo, charivari, shivaree, cavalcade, autocade, procession, flypast, parade of horribles, flower, ticker tape parade, pride, pomp and 12 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for parade of horribles.
hernesheir Speaking rhetorically, of course. Nov 23, 2011