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conflagrant

adjective as in burning

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Miss Manners objects to all conflagrant parties with the exception of the Fourth of July.

Desirée Stone 'Zombeavers' director Jordan Rubin setting up a shot Every summer, at least one Hindenburg-like disaster engulfs your local multiplex, but this blockbuster season is particularly conflagrant: After Earth, White House Down, The Lone Ranger, Pacific Rim and R.I.P.D. have together caused Tinseltown’s sky to rain down fiery red ink in quantities never before seen.

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Her two-song cameo, near the concert’s midpoint, had all the rude conflagrant force of a meteor crashing onto the stage.

In the midst of a conflagrant and confused debate over amendments to the antipoverty bill, Morse charged that "not 20 of you have read" the Senate committee's report on the bill's amendments.

Nay, the kindly shine of summer, when tracked home with the scientific spyglass, is found to issue from the most portentous nightmare of the universe—the great, conflagrant sun: a world of hell’s squibs, tumultuary, roaring aloud, inimical to life.

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

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