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Peccant Flaking Cops

2012-02-02T22:30:00.001-05:00

Flaking: the reason I'm leery of cops. "In a bench trial, Reichbach found Arbeeny guilty of 'flaking' — framing two people by planting crack in their car during a 2007 bust." The word is not in the dictionary under this sense, but it should qualify except it is not a widely known use of the word. Cops have too much power to destroy anybody who doesn't have the money to fight scurrilous charges especially those of cops. Those two people probably spent a fortune defending themselves and they will never be compensated for their trouble nor get back their reputations.

Story:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ex-cop-jason-arbeeny-cries-judge-probation-judge-gustin-reichbach-4-years-article-1.1016083

Another case of flaking:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/video_clears_klyn_man_charged_with_VGXwIkKPFZXpqNsQPLqhIK

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2012-01-22T11:48:00.001-05:00

--1882

--1846

Peccant sounds like an old out-of-date word that is not used much these days. Google book searches seem to confirm it was used more in the 19th century than the 20th. Maybe it can be dusted off and used again in a different way other than describing morals.

ex parte -- partisan, one-sided, from one point of view

un naufrage --

-- Arrow of Gold, Joseph Conrad

proche parent -- next of kin

aperient -- mild laxative

-- 1904, darkness, gloomy.

--1903

2011-11-30T16:04:00.001-05:00

defenestration
Throw someone or something out a window. Or, a swift dismissal, as from a political party.

tergiversate
Change attitude or opinion.

cozenage
Scam. "The reciprocity clause of the Dingley act seemed destined to be a monument of legislative cozenage and political bad faith..." (news archive search)

Definition of Cimmerian: of, pertaining to, or suggestive of a western people believed to dwell in perpetual darkness

adjective

(of an entity or event) having the purpose of its existence oroccurrence outside of or apart from itself.

collocate -- To place together or in proper order; arrange side by side.

-- The Rochester Sentinel - Mar 29, 1973

reductive -- used below in the third sense of the word which is something converted or processed into another form.

Still Madonna hinted that the emulation in "Born This Way," which sounds much like Madonna's 1989 hit, was a little too close for comfort.

"When I heard it on the radio, I said that sounds very familiar," said Madonna. "It feels reductive."

When asked about her choice of the word "reductive," Madonna said, "Look it up."

http://www.scribd.com/Zimvi/d/55671833-International-Criminal-Court%C2%A0seeking-Arrest-Warrants-against-Muammar%C2%A0Gaddafi

inter alia-- among other things

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Peccant Flaking Cops

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