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Back in 1911 the American misanthrope and satirist Ambrose Bierce published his Devil's Dictionary , 140 pages of scathing commentary on the folly, ugliness, and cruelty of the human race, laid out in the form of a dictionary, with "definitions" along the lines of (to give an actual sample): "Erudition, n. -- Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull."
Without in any way wishing to endorse Bierce's low opinion of his fellow man, I offer the following brief Devil's Dictionary of terms current in the media today. Alongside each entry I have given the least charitable possible interpretation of the word or phrase listed. (N.B.: To save space and avoid ...