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• IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.
  If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency...
• ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.
  Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself....
• PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.
  His light estate, if neither he did make it Nor yet its former guardian forsake it, Is portable improperly, I take it....
• DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors.
  The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy...
• LAWFUL, adj. Compatible with the will of a judge having jurisdiction.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• APOLOGIZE, v.i. To lay the foundation for a future offence.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the commonly accepted standards being artificial, arbitrary and fallaciou
  for, as "Sir Sycophas Chrysolater" in the play has justly remarked, "the true use and function of property (in whatsoever it consisteth -- coins, or land, or houses, or merchant- stuff, or anything which may be named as holden of right to one's own subservience) as also of honors, titles, preferments and place, and all favor and acquaintance of persons of quality or ableness, are but to get money....
• MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
  (From _zed_, _z_, and _jag_, an Icelandic word of unknown meaning....