to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night and by lamplight

moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality

choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others; having complicity

arrogantly superior and disdainful

suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful

inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious

completely puzzled or perplexed by something unexpected

a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion

well-deserved; fitting; adequate

a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person

to enable or allow the continuation of into the future; keep alive (used most often in reference to something considered harmful or false)

extremely distasteful; unacceptable

of or related to an offensive, unpleasant, or disgusting as an odor

a cause of obsessive fear, irritation, or loathing

foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly; witless

having or showing equanimity; even-tempered