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The man, Joshua Kemp, told what police describe as “a bogus story that quickly fell apart.”

It is not only clerics and Islamic ideologues who use offensive words and images to describe the sexual life of Westerners.

The latest novel from Samantha Harvey is truly superb, but left its reviewer at a loss for how to describe it.

But throughout all this, Malone describe herself as “oddly responsible,” wanting to help her moms pay the bills as young as 10.

I asked him to describe the U.S. mission that will likely revert back to the embassy it was more than a half century ago.

It was difficult to describe—a little sterner, a little wilder, a faint emphasis of the barbaric peering through it.

But that she could calmly tell him about it, that she could deliberately describe this effect upon her of another man—!

Words fail to describe my feelings as I watched the clothes come off him and dry ones go on just as if hands were arranging them.

To describe the joy, the intense and tumultuous delight of that moment, were beyond the power of words.

It is impossible to describe the thrilling effect produced by this striking ceremony.

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On this page you'll find 115 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to describe, such as: call, characterize, chronicle, construe, define, and depict.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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