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How to Insult Your Enemies

How to Insult Your Enemies. some useful but not-so-common words These words are disapproving so use them CAREFULLY. m artinet. strict d emands conformity to rules however arbitrary and tyrannical a sk for unquestioning obedience slave driver examples:

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How to Insult Your Enemies

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  1. How to Insult Your Enemies some useful but not-so-common words These words are disapproving so use them CAREFULLY

  2. martinet • strict • demands conformity to rules however arbitrary and tyrannical • ask for unquestioning obedience • slave driver • examples: 1. The secretary calls his boss a martinetbecause he asks for extreme strict conformity to his rules. 2. The worker refers to the foreman as a martinet.

  3. Jean Martinet, the Inspector General of Infantryduring the reign of King Louis XIV • strict drill master • imposed a system of drill, discipline, and maneuvers • from this time the French Army’s reputation for discipline dated • unpopular in his troops

  4. Originally a person who leads others in militarydrill • Latera military officer who is concernedwith strict discipline, and a rigidinflexible, merciless disciplinarian • Now • used in a derogatory (disapproving) sense • shows resentment of the user

  5. sycophant • toady to rich and influential people • out-yes the Hollywood yes man • hypocrite • servile attentions, unceasing adulation • bootlicker • example:He is such a sycophant that he always cultivate friends that can do him good --financially.

  6. apple-shiner • Greek name “fig-shower”sykon(fig) +phanein(to show)σῦκοφάντης (sycophant) ※phanein dia(through) + phanein diaphanous (transparent)

  7. a lad that inform the officers when • the figs (無花果)in the sacred groves are being taken, or • fig-dealers are dodging the tariff • A sycophant… • a sort of “stool pigeon” (抓耙子) • ingratiate themselves with (flatter) influential citizens of the community

  8. dilettante • superficially pursuit fine arts • paints, writes, composes, plays an instrument, • not to achieve professional competence, nor to make money • for personal amusement • dabbler • example:He is a bit of a dilettante as far as wine is concerned.

  9. Italian borrowing“a lover of music or painting” • Latin origindilettare (to delight) • dilettantish (adj.)superficial, unprofessional

  10. Review Time s • __________a toady to people of wealth or power • __________a strict disciplinarian • __________a dabbler in art m d

  11. Thank You

  12. Reference • eNotes: http://www.enotes.com/jean-martinet-reference/jean-martinet • OED: http://oed.com • http://gtotd.blogspot.tw/2009_06_01_archive.html • http://www.billcasselman.com/unpub3/fig.htm • Lewis, Norman. Word Power Made Easy. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1979

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