pensing

Denying or rebuking with a condescending, dismissive smile. Sometimes accompanied by a slight of the head.

Finally emerging to address a crowd of mothers demanding to know if their water supplies had been poisoned, the mayor's pensing demeanor only increased frustration for the citizens.

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Tarp

Essentially a baby blanket for grown-ups, providing all the shelter, protection, anonymity, magical powers one needs if only in one's head. Often used sardonically .

That pontificating senator evangelizing about women's choice of birth control can put a tarp on it.