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Callous vs Vicious - What's the difference?

callous | vicious |


As adjectives the difference between callous and vicious

is that callous is emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others while vicious is pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.

Lipped vs Lippy - What's the difference?

lipped | lippy |


As adjectives the difference between lipped and lippy

is that lipped is having a raised lip while lippy is (informal) talking back, in a cheeky manner.

As a noun lippy is

(colloquial) lipstick.

Cheeked vs Cheeky - What's the difference?

cheeked | cheeky |


As adjectives the difference between cheeked and cheeky

is that cheeked is having some specific type of cheek while cheeky is impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing.

As a verb cheeked

is past tense of cheek.

Skeevy vs Reek - What's the difference?

skeevy | reek |


As an adjective skeevy

is (slang) disgusting or distasteful.

As a noun reek is

a strong unpleasant smell or reek can be (ireland) a hill; a mountain.

As a verb reek is

(archaic|intransitive) to be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.

Fetid vs Reek - What's the difference?

fetid | reek |


As an adjective fetid

is stinking, fetid.

As a noun reek is

a strong unpleasant smell or reek can be (ireland) a hill; a mountain.

As a verb reek is

(archaic|intransitive) to be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.

Scanning vs Digitizing - What's the difference?

scanning | digitizing |


As verbs the difference between scanning and digitizing

is that scanning is while digitizing is .

As a noun scanning

is the act of something being scanned.

Pentecost vs Protestant - What's the difference?

pentecost | protestant |


As a proper noun pentecost

is a jewish festival (also known as shavuot, the feast of weeks) seven weeks after the feast of firstfruits or yom habikkurim, originally a harvest festival but, since the destruction of the temple, also commemorating the anniversary of the giving of the ten commandments to moses and the israelites at mount sinai [see for further information on, and chronology of, these feasts].

As a noun protestant is

(christianity) a member of any of several christian denominations which separated from the roman catholic church based on theological or political differences during the reformation (or sometimes later).

As an adjective protestant is

(christianity) of or pertaining to several denominations of christianity that separated from the roman catholic church based on theological or political differences during the reformation.

Excision vs Abolish - What's the difference?

excision | abolish |


As a noun excision

is the deletion of some text during editing.

As a verb abolish is

to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice .

Meed vs Meadow - What's the difference?

meed | meadow |


As a noun meed

is a payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award.

As a verb meed

is to reward; bribe.

As a proper noun meadow is

a town in texas.

Isocracy vs Autocracy - What's the difference?

isocracy | autocracy |


As nouns the difference between isocracy and autocracy

is that isocracy is a form of government where all citizens have equal political power while autocracy is a form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.

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