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| Domain | Definition |
Tips from 1870 | Never hesitate to call a spade a spade. One of the most frequent violations of good taste consists in the effort to dress a common subject in high-sounding language. The ass in the fable showed his stupidity when he put on the lion's skin and expected the other animals to declare him to be the king of beasts. The distinction of a subject lies in its own inherent character, and no pompous parade of words will serve to exalt a commonplace theme. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ornament | Big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology, sesquipedalia verba, Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality; Minerva press. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fine writing instrument | 102 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FINE WRITING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 細書き . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ほそがき. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | inefay itingwray | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-i-i-i-n-n-r-t-w" | |
-2 letters: wintering. | |
-3 letters: feinting, infinite, infringe, refining. | |
-4 letters: finnier, ginnier, igniter, intwine, niftier, reining, renting, rifting, ringent, tiering, tinnier, trining, twinier, twining, wiftier, wingier, writing. | |
-5 letters: engirt, feting, finger, fining, finite, firing, fringe, ginner, ignite, intern, intine, tewing, tieing, tinier, tining, tinner, tiring, twiner, twinge, wifing, winger, winier, wining, winner, winter, wiring, witing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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