Monday March 14, 2011...Words and descriptions

WORDS FOR THE POLITICAL DAY

APPLY THEM TO THE POLITICIAN OF YOUR CHOICE

I personally like the last one. It rolls off the tongue – opprobrious.  and it  has particular appropriateness to the present political situation.  

(reference: Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Florida, etc, etc, etc.)

perfidious: deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful

ignoble: degraded; dishonorable; ignominious; contemptible

ignominious: degrading; disgraceful; dishonorable; shameful; despicable; ignoble

specious: superficially plausible; false; misleading

meretricious: showy; gaudy; spurious; sham; false

opprobrious: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame;

"Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"

ignominious; inglorious; shameful; disgraceful;

dishonorable - lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed"