The Wickedictionary

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The name wickedictionary is intended to be a play on the word wiktionary. The idea is to collect definitions of words like in a dictionary, except the definitions must be perverse in the style of Ambrose Bierce's the Devil's Dictionary. The idea is to modernize Ambrose Bierce and come up with a more contemporary and cutting-edge collection of definitions. Anyone is welcome to edit this page. If you do not have access, you are welcome to email me definitions. The idea is we don't have to necessarily agree with these definitions, but to merely enjoy them for the fun of it.

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C

Celebrity: (noun) someone who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.[1]

Conscience: the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.[2]

D

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.[3]

F

Faith: an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.[4]

H

Hero: someone who is talented at getting other people killed.[5]

P

Patriotism: is the virtue of the vicious.[6]

Puritanism: is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. [7]

R

Remorse: regret that one waited so long to do it.[8]

S

Self-respect is the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.[9]


References

  1. H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
  2. H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
  3. H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
  4. H. L. Mencken, Prejudices (1922)
  5. From the film Serenity.
  6. Oscar Wilde.
  7. H. L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques (1916)
  8. H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
  9. H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

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