Mottleheaded

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Mottleheaded

adj.
feeling uneasy when socializing with odd combinations of friends and family, or friends and colleagues, or colleagues and family—mixing a medley of ingredients that don’t typically go together, which risks either watering down your identity into gray mush, or accidentally triggering some sort of explosion.

From motley, comprising incongruous elements + headed. Pronounced “mot-l-hed-id.”

Maugry

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Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Los Vidados

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Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench

Hickering

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