Examples
“The * scads and scads* of people posting here constantly * BELIE* what the anti-gay say, implying indications that such gay people * are in a severe minority and/or barely even exist*.”
“NextWatch out for 'bait and click' ads called 'scads”
“The "scads" are all we want, and to get them we will try,”
“The AABC has set its sights on search engines, hoping to expose scam ads or "scads," its term for sponsored search results that are targeted using competitors 'brand names.”
“To some, it seemed to be the “polyglotification” of English, by scads of new words coming in from all directions.”
“Then the calculations proliferated, churning out scads of random data.”
“Amid the scads of sensationalist shows on the network hiding under the guise of "educational" television, "All American Muslim" actually has one of the greatest opportunities to truly educate that TLC has.”
The Huffington Post: Christian Piatt: All-American Muslims, Meet Un-Christ-Like Christians
“The sad part is how shitty most TV writing is, and that the idiots writing it are making scads more money than talented, well-deserving prose writers.”
“Young, Chicago artist Thomas Roach begins his creative process of finding content by an odd, laborious exercise of borrowing scads of clipped magazine pages from the Chicago Public Library's archives.”
The Huffington Post: Paul Klein: What If a Curator's Agenda Doesn't Match the Artist's?
“Increasingly, big, crass, stupid movies that tank in the U.S., or garner only middling results on these shores, end up earning scads of money overseas.”
The Wall Street Journal: That's Entertainment—Somewhere Else
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scads’.
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Imprecise Units of Measurement
A list of terms for units of measurement that are less than exact, such as dessert-spoonful.
two shakes, dessert-spoonful, a pinch, a bit, some, smidge, smidgin, dollop, drop, fleck, smack, sprinkling and 187 more...
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Awesome Words, Part 2: More Common
pilgrim, indubitably, incorrigible, bombastic, histrionics, depredation, perspicuity, discombobulate, peregrination, ambulatory, redux, fractious and 164 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
switchback, heavens to murgat..., prosody, catarrh, ice storm, existential, predicament, intermingle, comingle, stolid, zeitgeist, bibliophage and 146 more...
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to be sorted
litter, palanquin, aver, catamite, phlox, pliant, modicum, poorthink, cow, decalogue, caveat, dais and 175 more...
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frequent toefl
Words that I do not know or unsure for toefl
appurtenances, aptitude, arbitrary, arboretum, argot, arrears, avocation, avuncular, badger, bait, warden, bane and 428 more...
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How Much?
dearth, paucity, capacious, scads, oodles, googol, rife, googolplex, caboodle, myriad, multitudinous, whole hog and 4 more...
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"letting go" words
words from the IE root orbh- and others words that change allegiance
orphan, robot, let, liege, allegiance, late, later, last, lassitude, alas, lenient, lenis and 41 more...
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A Bazillion Imaginary Numbers
If I've told you once, I've told you a jillion times: Stop exaggerating!
bazillion, gazillion, umpteen, zillion, bajillion, skillion, kajillion, godzillion, umptillion, scads, gangs, buhmillion and 32 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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falconwriter's Words
scads, kestrel, troglodyte, surreptitious, chocolatl, triptych, sagacity, perspicacious, luminous, penny dreadful, abscond, indeterminate and 4 more...
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Short and Sweet
Five-letter maximun.
dell, knell, glen, dour, cant, chary, segue, quash, onus, cozen, quaff, aver and 59 more...
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Fun Phrases & Idioms3
splitting hairs, down the hatch, have a cow, hit rock bottom, high on the hog, hold your horses, shit hits the fan, going nowhere fast, fat chance, twist of fate, odds-on favorite, horse feathers and 72 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for scads.
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