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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--pococurante This week's theme: words to describe people. pococurante (po-ko-koo-RAN-tee, -kyoo-) adjective Indifferent, apathetic, nonchalant. noun A careless or indifferent person. [From Italian poco (little) + curante, present participle of curare, (to care), from Latin curare (cure, care).] -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "The only child of an interminably famous literary theorist, and now pococurante chair of the English Department, Hank published one critically acclaimed novel -- 'Off the Road' -- 20 years ago." Gail Caldwell; College Bound Richard Russo's Comic/Sad Novel of Learning and Campus Politics; Boston Globe; Jul 13, 1997. X-Bonus No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. -Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (1804-1864)

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