daffy dialogue
daft the occasionally daft ideas of Thea von Harbou (imdb
on Metropolis)
damp Renée Zellweger sings [the song] with – if we’re being generous – a subtext of damp wistfulness.
Emma Brockes Guardian April 12 08
damp-eyed
(pejorative, like "weepy") Without a wife, Gordon Brown was an object
of suspicion; now his damp-eyed whiffling about the
unique lessons he has learned from fatherhood is itself a warning to any
ambitious, single politician, that neither a puppy, nor even a cooperative, but
childless, partner can compete. Catherine Bennett Guardian
dazzlingly
miscast "Diana Dors, who was once quite dazzlingly miscast as Jocasta."
Nancy Banks-Smith (NBS), Guardian July 9, 2005
deadly "There was a rather deadly
little pause." Ngaio Marsh
decorative “his
political conviction may be described as decorative” wiki
deluded as many of the well-meaning but
deluded legislators intend
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deeply unglamorous The deeply unglamorous chair of Labour's national executive committee ploughed on through the numbers. Yahoo news on Anne Black, September 25, 2010
demeaning "Warwick Castle ... staffed
by people in demeaning period costumes." Guardian June 27, 2006 (trashes
the whole Heritage Industry with one word)
demented "a demented Euro-curriculum from Brussels" Guardian June 20 2006 demented cheeriness Simon Hoggart
on round-robin letters
dense dense
but loyal Broderick Crawford, sneaky Mischa Auer, menacing Oscar Homolka,
perpetually befuddled Billy Gilbert imdb
depressing Fritz Lang is kind of a depressing guy with a bleak opinion of human nature. goatdog.com (“Depressing saga of man who keeps
his parents in two dustbins” Sun preview of Samuel Beckett)
deranged Unpredictable, hilarious, and completely deranged, Duck Soup is without doubt
the distillation of everything that the Marx Brothers claimed as their own.
bbc.co.uk)
designer
dowdy