desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling condition, or appearance

the act of establishing the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify

china dishes, earthen vessels, etc, collectively

spending much more than is necessary or wise; wasteful

to utter or pronounce (words, sentences) especially in an articulate or a particular manner

a person who escorts people to seats in a theater, church, tc.

to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn

a small scrap or fragment

to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically