The definitions below are Google search results.
- Empathy: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
- Dignity: The state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect.
- Fairness: impartial and just treatment or behavior without favoritism or discrimination.
- Compassion: Sympathetic pity and concern for the suffering and misfortunes of others.
- Respect: A feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements.
- Love: An intense feeling of deep affection.
- Deference: Humble submission and respect.
- Obedience: Compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another's authority.
- Kowtow: Act in an excessively subservient manner.
- Genuflect: Lower one's body briefly by bending one knee to the ground, typically in worship or as a sign of respect.
- Prostrate: Lay oneself flat on the ground face downward, especially in reverence or submission.
- Fawning: Displaying exaggerated flattery or affection.
- Obsequious: Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
- Flattery: Excessive and insincere praise, especially that given to further one's own interests.
- Sycophant: A person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain advantage.
- "He was a sycophant" is like saying "he was a scheming, fawning flatterer."
- Magnanimous: Very generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or someone less powerful than oneself.
- Passive Aggressive:
- "Are you going to wear that?"
- See: 8 Signs You’re Being Passive-Aggressive
- Insincere: Not expressing genuine feelings.
- Disingenuous: Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.
- Holding private positions on issues that oppose one's own "public" positions on the same issues.
- See: Hillary Clinton defends telling Wall Street that politicians need a private and public position on issues
- Hypocrisy (Hypocrite): the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.
- Christians praying in public while ignoring the Bible passage Matthew 6:1-2
- Christians being against abortion while ignoring the Bible passage Leviticus 27:6 where God puts no value on life earlier than one month after birth. At the time, not many were expected to live that long anyway.
- Deceitful: Guilty of or involving deceit; deceiving or misleading others.
I was waiting for a phone call which never came so I decided to just sit here and piddle about. I hope these words come in handy.
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