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Thursday, November 29, 2012

273. Perspicacious

Extract from, "Maureen Dowd's Holiday Pudding," by Geoffrey Dunn, Huffington Post, 11/29/12:

 During a week in which those icons of feminism -- senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham -- viciously attacked Rice, Dowd somehow decided it was perspicacious to go after her, too, using a series of unsourced allegations.


Perspicacious:  having a ready insight into and understanding of things; shrewd
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