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Creative Writing
Vocab Lesson 5: Insults
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dolt
• If the dolt couldn’t spell “stupid”
correctly, how could he ever be smart
enough to do his own taxes?
• N. a stoopid person
lecherous
• The lecherous old man stared at all the
girls on the beach, offending the poor
women who wrapped themselves up in
their beach towels.
• Adj. Having excessive or offensive
sexual desire
plebian
• “Can you believe that Prince
Scruffyhead would do something so
common as play that ridiculous, plebian
game of hide and seek with those
scummy merchant boys?”
• N or adj. common, pertaining to the
common or lower class (derogatory)
promiscuous
• The promiscuous woman was accused of
sleeping her way to the top of the corporation.
She never slept with anyone, but she did
wear some low cut shirts and flirt with the
right people.
• Adj. Behaving in an overly flirtatious manner;
having too many sexual relationships, often
fleeting in nature
recreant
• The recreant fled the battle. All the
soldiers believed it was their duty, their
sacred call to battle the humans, but the
Grunt ran away anyhow. But had he
stayed to fight…
• N. a coward; one who is unfaithful to a
belief
miscreant
• Tommy Tumultson thought it would be a good
idea to set off firecrackers during his parent’s
party with all their sophisticated friends. The
miscreant was sent back to bed like a
prisoner sent to solitary.
• N. a person behaves badly or in a way that
breaks the law
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Notice how this word is similar to “recreant,” but the meanings are very
different.
nefarious
• Dirk the Black Moustache, the nefarious
outlaw, robbed banks, stole cattle, and
other, even less savory crimes were not
unknown to him. Everyone knew him
for his evil and horrible misdeeds.
• Adj. famous in a bad way
sadistic
• Billy the Nose, was known to be cruel
and took enjoyment from cutting off the
noses of other gangsters from rivaling
crimes syndicates. The sadistic criminal
took great pleasure when it came to
torturing Longnose Paddy.
• Adj. incline to cruelty; enjoys inflicting
pain on others
coquette
• Flirtina knew all the men in town, and
they all knew her, as well, for the
coquette would stop and flirt with
everyone of them.
• N. a woman who flirts
• “Carliotto is such a cankerous jerk,” said
his twin sister. “That canker cankers me
all the time! He’s, like, such a pain to
be around!”
canker
• An open sore; any painful evil
(figurative)
• Can be a noun, verb (cankers,
cankered), or adjective (cankerous)
oaf
• Grumbolt, the troll, is such an oaf. He
can never figure out the right foot from
the left, and he’s always falling down as
a result.
• N. a stupid, uncultured, clumsy person
• Note the difference between this word and dolt
putrid
• The young boy peered into the witch’s
cauldron and the putrid goo that
bubbled. Hailgag the Wicked planned
to feed him this potion that smelled of
decaying asparagus and rotting
corpses. He had to do something first!
• Adj. pertaining to decaying or rotting
matter; unpleasant and repulsive