Related:

• ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language.
  The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• BENEFACTOR, n. One who makes heavy purchases of ingratitude, without, however, materially affecting the price, which is still within the means of all.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory.
  The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot....
• BASTINADO, n. The act of walking on wood without exertion.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
  -- Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary...
• KILL, v.t. To create a vacancy without nominating a successor.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...