The Giltwrights

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The Giltwrights

n.
the imaginary committee of elders that keeps a running log of all your mistakes, steadily building their case that you’re secretly a fraud, a coward, a doofus, and a douche—who would’ve revoked your good fortune years ago had they not been hampered by their own bitter squabblings over proper grammar and spelling.

Old English gilt, awareness of wrongdoing + wrought, shaped with hammers. Pronounced “the gilt-rahyts.”

Emodox

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Mcfeely

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Wellium

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Vicarous

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Nighthawk

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Agnosthesia

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Symptomania

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Heartspur

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Malotype

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Maugry

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Keep

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Nementia

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Elsing

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Ioia

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The Giltwrights

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The Wends

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Leidenfreude

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Addleworth

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Tornomov

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Innity

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Leidenfreude

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Star-Stuck

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Evertheless

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The Meantime

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Eigenschauung

Eigen-schauung

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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Lap Year

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