flagitious: grossly wicked; scandalous
defenestration: an act of throwing someone or something out of a window.
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obsequious: servilely attentive; fawning.
badinage: light, playful talk.
Use three of the four in a single sentence. Extra credit for humor, alliteration, or use of all four words.
For instance:
During the defenestration of his person, the deposed monarch marveled at the flagitious badinage among his formerly obsequious subjects.
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1 comment:
I don't mean to be obsequious, but I do, in a sense, consider it flagitious to engage in such badinage about the serious topic of
defenestration.
Bill
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