IN THE business world, the word "commodity" has become something of an insult a synonym for "boring", when applied to products, or "easily replaced" when speaking of people's skills.
I take it to be a synonym for "insipid" when it precedes the word "film" and for "inedible" when followed by the word "restaurant".
*Disinterested: sinfully used as a synonym for uninterested when it truly means "without bias or self-interest".
Surely there are synonyms for everything when the cast of characters includes Merry Widdo Kiddo, Michael (Hinky Dink) Kenna and Suzy Poon Tang.
I meant "white rule".If you thought that it couldn't get worse from here, prepare yourself.No, none of "Stygian", "unhealthy", "despairing" and "terrible" are particularly good synonyms for "black" when you are talking about black South Africans.On the bright side, Grammarly's plagiarism detector did detect the source I had copied and pasted from my own book.
Meal for two, including drinks and service £75 I was wandering through London's Borough Market, as you do when you're greedy, comfortably off, status-obsessed and middle class (the latter being a synonym for the other three) when it struck me that it provided an answer to what it meant to be British.
a synonym for the Muslim religion when used as an adjective eg Islamic art.
The holy book of Islam is the Qur'an (not Koran) Islamic a synonym for the Muslim religion when used as an adjective eg Islamic art.
A reporter, Robert D. Hershey Jr., sends me a note about the misuse of the lion's share - it's every bit the lion wants, not merely the largest part - and attaches that to an observation that too many of us are using fraction as a synonym for "small part of," when a fraction can be a plurality.
First and foremost, they're wrong about language: a 'run' is not always a race against time, the word is also a synonym for 'route', as used when parents make the school run or a courier makes delivery runs.
