In an effort to educate the nominally literate and inform those with sufficient humility to understand their own lack of comprehension, Esme offers the correct definition of misunderstood words…
Conservative
- (adjective – pronunciation note: con-serve-a-toff) Being very strongly opposed to the class system and the idea that the lower classes exist only as servants for the landed gentry
Example: Being a working-class hero, Sally was a conservative activist. - (noun – pronunciation similar) A servant drawn from the criminal classes
Example: Lord Whinny was shocked to discover his butler was a conservative.
If you have any words whose meaning escapes you, Esme Crockford is always happy to share her lexicographical knowledge and penetrating insight into the English language.
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