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Reference compiler exposing nonsense about good English
Answer for the clue "Reference compiler exposing nonsense about good English ", 5 letters:
roget
Alternative clues for the word roget
- Doctor-turned- synonymist
- Famed doctor-turned-wordsmith
- Subject of "The Man Who Made Lists"
- Lexiconizing physician
- Wordsmith Peter Mark ___
- English physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869)
- Synonym eponym
- Synonym compiler
- English physician and thesaurus compiler, d. 1869
- Author who wouldn't let bygones be bygones?
Usage examples of roget.
Possibly de Roget had been banished from court in disgrace, but Arkell assumed there were more Sabreurs in the offing.
With fascinated horror Roget Germyn unscrewed the lid from a box which bore an ancient stencil: ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND.
Before Eleni and the others I told him he would get nothing from me unless I had the promise that no actor or actress of Paris would ever be slain or seduced by the new coven, that Renaud and his troupe would never be brought into the Theater of the Vampires now or in the years to come, that Roget, who would hold the purse strings of the theater, must never come to the slightest harm.
Roget Germyn was too busy to grieve, so he lived on, no theorist, not very cerebral, but glorying in a full gut, in taking a strong woman, in waking and lying extra minutes idly on a bed of polyurethane foam raped from its cushioning job in a stamping mill.