Some fun definitions from Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary:
DEFAME, v.t. To lie about another. To tell the truth about another.
POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.
RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
Wonderful.
CONGRATULATIONS, n. The civility of envy.
Bloody Marvelous …
Petty that the Devil’s Dictionary is silent on “settlement”…
Another quite topical one is: “Moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.”