Word of the Day | subornNew York Times (blog)The Word of the Day and its definitions have been provided by Vocabulary.com and the Visual Thesaurus. Learn more about the word “suborn” and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary dictionary.
24 May 2012 | 9:07 pm
New Zealand HeraldJames Elliott: Amnesia a blessing watching Budget TVNew Zealand HeraldWith a haircut that screams zero Budget and Ayatollah-like eyebrows, he plundered his way through Scrooge's Thesaurus for the Thrifty. The key messages were short term austerity and long term growth. Fittingly for Olympic year there was a false start ...
24 May 2012 | 2:27 pm
132 Million VOTERSWWNY TV 7Also he makes so much money couldn't he buy a Thesaurus and keep a list of superlatives at his desk or maybe have them piped into his year with a secret earpiece? Superb! Stupendous! Spectacular! Sublime! Those are just the S's. You are so talented you ...and more »
24 May 2012 | 1:43 pm
Telegraph.co.ukGiving dogs silly names is part of the Mitford codeTelegraph.co.uk... Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, got his knickers in a twist over AN Wilson's new biography of Hitler, calling it “stale, unoriginal… lame, tired” and many more adjectives taken from the nastier pages of Roget's Thesaurus.and more »
24 May 2012 | 12:42 pm
Pushing for AGM on Sydenham RiverChatham Daily NewsThe thesaurus has numerous words to describe renewal. Some are: to breath new life into, to modernize, to renovate. Renovate? Sure enough! Check it out: renew = renovate = repair = maintenance, and maintenance = care for or keep up.
24 May 2012 | 9:21 am
Incommodious, bulky, clunky, burdensome…UptownThe work certainly is "unwieldy, unmanageable, awkward, inconvenient," and most of the other things my thesaurus is throwing at me. The gallery space is something of a thoroughfare for the complex — a two-storey atrium bisected by an elevator shaft, ...
23 May 2012 | 11:08 pm
The Caledonian MercuryUseful Scots word: Forby and Ulster ScotsThe Caledonian MercuryEvery English thesaurus lists quite a few synonyms for the adverb besides. These include also, too, as well, moreover, furthermore, what's more, in addition, additionally and over and above that. Some of these have Scots equivalents such as tae (too), ...
23 May 2012 | 2:52 pm
How less is more – in more than one idiomChristian Science MonitorIt can be a lovely thing to find just the right word, but not every sentence requires an expedition through Roget's Thesaurus. So, too, in architecture, says Krier. Remembering his growing up in Europe, he noted that there was little "architecture" in ...
23 May 2012 | 9:20 am
Minnesota Public RadioA way with words: How do we explain our world?Minnesota Public RadioHe is the executive producer of Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, and he is the former On Language columnist for The New York Times Magazine. Martha Barnette: Co-host of the public-radio show 'A Way with Words,' heard each week by listeners in more ...
20 May 2012 | 8:36 pm
Bereavement to orientation tomes!The Economist (blog)Pity the former president of the United States who thought his first term paper at boarding school lacked a certain oomph, and reached for his copy of "Roget's Thesaurus". A poignant moment, in which the future president mourns his sister's death, ...
30 April 2012 | 8:45 am