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Usage

• saturnine

  Someone who is saturnine is looking miserable and sad, sometimes in a threatening or unfriendly way.

• quarantine

  When people or animals are quarantined, they are put in isolation so that they will not spread disease.

• labyrinthine

  If you describe a situation or process as labyrinthine, you mean that it is very complicated, involved, and difficult to understand.

• internecine

  An internecine conflict or quarrel takes place between people who belong to the same group, organization, country, etc.

• aquiline

  An aquiline feature, such as a nose or profile, is large, thin, and curved like the beak of an eagle.

• byzantine

  If you describe a system or process as byzantine, it means that you are criticizing it because it is excessively complicated and difficult to understand.

• saccharine

  If you are acting in a saccharine fashion, you are being way too sugary sweet or are being extremely sentimental, both of which can be irritating to others.

• serpentine

  A serpentine figure has a winding or twisting form, much like that of a slithering snake.