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Gleaning
- verb - gather as information
- gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"
Gloaming
- noun - the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
Gloating
- verb - dwell on with satisfaction
- gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy
- malicious satisfaction
Illabile
- - Incapable of falling or erring; infalliable.
Illation
- noun - the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
Illative
- adjective - expressing or preceding an inference; "`therefore' is an illative word"
- relating to or having the nature of illation or inference; "the illative faculty of the mind"
- resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference; "an illative conclusion"; "inferential reasoning"
Pleading
- verb - (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
- appeal or request earnestly; "I pleaded with him to stop"
- begging
- enter a plea, as in courts of law; "She pleaded not guilty"
- make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts
- offer as an excuse or plea; "She was pleading insanity"
Pleasing
- verb - be the will of or have the will (to); "he could do many things if he pleased"
- give pleasure to or be pleasing to; "These colors please the senses"; "a pleasing sensation"
- give satisfaction; "The waiters around her aim to please"
- giving pleasure and satisfaction; "a pleasing piece of news"; "pleasing in manner and appearance"
- the act of one who pleases
Pleating
- verb - fold into pleats, "Pleat the cloth"
- pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric"
- the act of folding in parallel folds
Sleazier
- adjective - morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
- of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining"
- of very poor quality; flimsy