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Perspicacious

Word of the day on 02 October 2009.

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TheSupercargo
"Placed 12th, no less! I must be perspicacious," he said, with quotidian aplomb, unaware of the banana skin of hubris beneath his foot.

Good uses

  • routermonkey
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    Perspicacious people will notice that "perceptive" is a much more straightforward word. Similar to saying "utilize" instead of "use".
  • K_Geddings
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    The perspicacious child will seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. #artwiculate
  • zimmerjohn
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    One does not have to be perspicacious-to find him banal and loquacious-he drones on and on-I cannot help but yawn-it's agonizingly vexatious
  • routermonkey
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    Perspicacious of prime pickling times, Peter Piper picked his peck of pickled peppers perfectly. #artwiculate
  • Sweet_Madness
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    Had Elizabeth been as perspicacious as she claimed, she would have married Mr. Darcy the first time he asked.
  • jdmyers
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    I'm not a very perspicacious person in the morning until I've had my coffee. Luckily it just finished brewing. #artwiculate
  • lithiumzombie
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    Facing defeat the chess champion made his most perspicacious move: in a fake spastic fit, he wiped the board clean and punched his opponent.
  • airynothing
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    Holy crap, it's October! (No one has ever accused me of being perspicacious.) #artwiculate
  • DaveCurry
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    As his date's behavior shifted from vexatious to flirtatious, his less-brainy body parts became more perspicacious. #artwiculate
  • Vocabulary_Fun
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    If I were REALLY perspicacious, I wouldn't have had to look up today's meaning. Sigh. #artwiculate
  • stacielcm
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    My rather persnickety professor preferred purple pens when proofreading pupils' prose and proffering prudent and perspicacious praise.
  • christinayak
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    @artwiculate When looking for companionship. the perspicacious male, keen on just one thing, knows not to appear keen on that one thing.
  • Cannonade
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    His friends never described Gredo as perspicacious. Nevertheless, they all knew Han shot first. @artwiculate
  • hereticaneue
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    what do i look for in a breakfast food? something hearty, delicious, and perspicacious. i want a bagel that really know ME.
  • Smoodle
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    The perspicacious know: time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
  • bunnirice
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    George Orwell was perspicacious when he remarked "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
  • DrMobs
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    To paraphrase Alfred Hitchcock: There is nothing to winning, just a keen eye, a perspicacious mind and no scruples whatsoever.
  • phuggins
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    @artwiculate - An admonishment for @limbaugh: “Be more perspicacious, less loquacious.”
  • dmriver
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    My brain is not perspicacious today. Too tired to know the difference between tire, tyre or attire.
  • tutorwithtammy
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    One way I encourage my students to be more perspicacious is to say "it's up to you to catch any mistakes I make." Opens their eyes right up!
  • browningshane
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    I'd like to think that my perspicacious nature enables my understanding of all things nerdy, my wife says it just takes one to know one.
  • davidhorm
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    I perpetually perspire while playing poker with perspicacious people.
  • _Viv
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    @artwiculate Sherlock Holmes uses his perspicacious mind to solve crimes.
  • _ado
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    The perspicuous yet perjurious testimony of the perspicacious villain lacked persuasiveness due to his pervading perspiration.
  • pkaeding
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    He grew more perspicacious as he pondered the meaning of being such a small person in such a spacious universe. #artwiculate
  • hgparra
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    It takes a perspicacious man to read between the lines and ascertain what women really want.
  • Lydiette
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    Girls, if you could take only one advice on relationships: Be Perspicacious.
  • iMike
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    The perspicacious young lad quickly figured out that it's not possible to fit a limerick into a tweet.
  • lithiumzombie
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    Perspicacious... try saying THAT ten times in a row, after two bottles of scotch! #artwiculate
  • clutterbells
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    Supercalafragalisticexpi perspicacious #artwiculate
  • cofosho
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    How perspicacious of Pam to preemptively phone the paramedics prior to Paolo's pernicious, prolonged priapism.
  • jumpmonk
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    "Yes, I've been to the loo," he said, hands damp, fly ajar, TP at his heel. "But a perspicacious chap would know which stall. And how long."
  • RobinHood89
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    With perspicacious judgment the group exposed my evil plan. "I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for them meddling kids."
  • gawth
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    Some consider me a perspicacious tweeter but if thats the case why do I bother tweeting...
  • thegriddle
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    Some of my perspicacious patrons have spotted some mistakes in my puzzles. If you're one of them, don't be lackadaisical - let me know!
  • jichikawa
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    When you're sitting on a secret, the world seems much more perspicacious than it really is. (Usually, it turns out no one's even looking.)
  • kevd00d
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    @artwiculate Although a genius, Professor X was not perspicacious enough to avoid a cameo in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
  • CindieLou
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    Falling in love with Persephone marks Hades perspicacious tastes, at least that's what Styx in my mind #artwiculate
  • pn8r
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    The perspicacious puppeteer always knew the right strings to pull to accomplish her goals. #artwiculate
  • PeterJDonnelly
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    Leaving his dodgy past behind him, the young professor considered himself "perspicacious" rather than "street smart." #artwiculate
  • phuggins
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    @artwiculate: The polite, bright, poetic, dyslexic kid to himself, upon hearing the spelling word: "Goodness gracious, not 'perspicacious'!"
  • Sheamus
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    Often those who tout themselves as the most perspicacious have the most to learn, and the least to give.
  • misteremcee
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    The perspicacious amongst you will notice that I'm not at my most perspikatious today. . .
  • Clokey
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    Full marks to the not very perspicacious Dept of Education for making a video with Education spelled incorrectly in the titles #artwiculate
  • silversteelwolf
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    Goodness gracious, she's flirtatious. Is she so perspicacious as to notice my hellacious sebaceous?
  • dscribe12
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    Perspicacious people postpone pointless powwows. #artwicluate
  • lexiconehead
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    @kantha -Here's a toast to bars of oats that only perspicacious bakers know how to make taste so great i can't wait to @artwiculate
  • onesparrow
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    "You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. Ima get perspicacious on your ass."
  • Theonlygolux
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    After I have been for a run I find myself perspicacious. Perspication soaks my shirt and mixes with the excretions of my sebaceous glands

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