Related:

• RECONSIDER, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.
  Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others....
• RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another.
  The word is of classical refinement, and is even said to have been used in a fable by Georgius Coadjutor, one of the most fastidious writers of the fifteenth century -- commonly, indeed, regarded as the founder of the Fastidiotic School....
• PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Adore, v.: To venerate expectantly.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...