One word

Alacrity

Word of the day on 15 October 2009.

Winning tweet

65
Points
SJHatzi
HINT if you want to win at Artwiculate, get your tweets retweeted with alacrity

Good uses

  • MLatzke
    55
    Points
    I applauded my dog for his alacrity, but ultimately chose to remove him from my leg.
  • SJHatzi
    54
    Points
    Perspicacity trumps alacrity. Perspicacity trumps alacrity. Perspicacity trumps alacrity. (My mantra).
  • twhitbeck
    50
    Points
    Eating with alacrity promotes passivity. I think my stretchy pants are losing elasticity.
  • dmriver
    50
    Points
    Moving with alacrity toward twitter mediocrity.
  • chrisdetar
    50
    Points
    The alacrity of beavers is overstated. #artwiculate
  • SJHatzi
    49
    Points
    Perspicacity trumps alacrity.
  • PudHW
    45
    Points
    Is it better to shine brightly briefly with alacrity or to slow grow the soft glow of mediocrity?
  • chrisdetar
    45
    Points
    I could feel the alacrity in the toddlers cries of "pee! pee!" one mile after we past the last rest stop for forty-two miles.
  • TheSupercargo
    40
    Points
    You can always rely on Mendacity to come along with Alacrity, so long as her sister Clarity is not one of the party.
  • caslexplorers
    40
    Points
    Sign at a tuna processing plant: Those who cannot can with alacrity will be canned with alacrity.
  • TheSupercargo
    40
    Points
    The @artwiculate word of the day is: alacrity. That with which my brain does not work at 6:20 in the morning.
  • ZimmerJohn
    40
    Points
    Alice, the alabaster albatross, attacked the dish of albacore and onions with lachrymal alacrity.
  • SJHatzi
    39
    Points
    (Artwiculate Oath) I vow to tweet with alacrity, audacity and nothing but rapacity, so help me Webster.
  • chrisdetar
    35
    Points
    I anxiously await your #Artwiculate arrival with great alacrity.
  • TheSupercargo
    35
    Points
    In a bureaucracy an appearance of alacrity will go far to help you avoid doing any actual work. Analects of Confusing
  • SimonParkin
    35
    Points
    @artwiculate 4 seconds after the challenge was laid down, here I am, Mr Alacrity.
  • akneeland
    35
    Points
    @artwiculate If you make fun of my alacrity, I'll make short work of your apathy.
  • SJHatzi
    35
    Points
    Never before has a Peace Nobel Prize been awarded with such alacrity while setting a new record for travesty.
  • thebigmonty
    35
    Points
    @artwiculate Slack, you see, is a lack of alacrity.
  • dboothe
    35
    Points
    After an alarmingly angry argument (aggravated as absinthe absorption advanced), Amy's alacrity apropos apologizing abated all awkwardness.
  • DoctorWisband
    35
    Points
    With great alacrity I leaped from the roof, "I CAN FLY!" But alas, insidious gravity, you knew better than I.
  • SJHatzi
    35
    Points
    Is facing calamity with alacrity a congruity?
  • SJHatzi
    34
    Points
    Perspicacity trumps alacrity!
  • SJHatzi
    34
    Points
    Perspicacity trumps alacrity?
  • ZimmerJohn
    34
    Points
    Alice, the artwiculating alabaster albatross, attacked the dish of albacore and onions with lachrymal alacrity. #artwiculate
  • jeliot
    30
    Points
    With midterms happening at many colleges and universities, I doubt any student will be bouncing off the walls with alacrity. @artwiculate
  • caslexplorers
    30
    Points
    Jeopardy answer / Ring in with alacrity / Please state your question
  • airynothing
    30
    Points
    starting the day with alacrity...no, wait...that's not the word...apathy! Starting the day with apathy! #artwiculate
  • youngandvacant
    30
    Points
    I begin today with the all the alacrity of a two-toed sloth.
  • DaveCurry
    30
    Points
    As Aadvark advanced, announcing another ample aspersion, ants all around aired appreciation, alacrity, and awe. Aardvark always acted alone.
  • EnderQON
    30
    Points
    My children never attack their chores with alacrity. Unless, of course, they want something...
  • silversteelwolf
    30
    Points
    Alas and alacrity, a lass wearing lingerie; impasse: she's not into me.
  • lagadu123
    30
    Points
    @artwiculate IF we do nominate you for he Open Web awards, will you reward us by divulging the secret scoring algorithms ? With alacrity ?
  • cambelina
    30
    Points
    Kramer tends to enter Jerry's apartment with great alacrity , before raiding the fridge. #artwiculate
  • ONeillio
    30
    Points
    The alacrity of this response is embarrassing.
  • Ysabeluna
    30
    Points
    I am submitting this with alacrity hope it makes it as the first tweet for the day
  • chrisdetar
    30
    Points
    The alacrity with which I hit the Show the Definition button for the #artwiculate word of the day would have embarrassed my English teacher.
  • seemsforever
    30
    Points
    first time artwiculating, & i begin with great alacrity & vivacity, but my naivety of the activity leaves my 1st try steeped in mediocrity..
  • mavant
    30
    Points
    After apprehending an artwiculation, an apprehensive audiophile abashedly added another alliterative answer amid abundant alacrity.
  • CaliforniaKara
    30
    Points
    Maverick: I feel the need... Maverick/Goose: ...the need for alacrity!
  • tWordBird
    30
    Points
    OOPS! Tweeting w/ alacrity, @tWordBird typed “DUgong” (seacow) as “GUgong” (former palace)! Lesson: Playing fast puts cow on throne?
  • revhappiness
    30
    Points
    When asked to submit their homework, the alacrity with which they came forth would have made a glacier's movements seem positively frenetic
  • marcosarroyos
    30
    Points
    He spit out neologisms with such alacrity that his friends called him Quick Richard. Until he went deaf and they called him dickhead.
  • onesparrow
    30
    Points
    She downed the drink with alacrity... a bit of dutch courage was needed to hit the send button. Another day, another artwiculate entry.
  • routermonkey
    30
    Points
    At the record shop: Alicia aligned all albums alphabetically with alacrity. #artwiculate
  • amjohnno
    30
    Points
    I'm looking forward to today with all the alacrity of a dead possum.
  • TheSupercargo
    30
    Points
    How many fellow artwiculators'll also link morning+brain+alacrity+NOT? Note: think of something else when brain working
  • ng66
    30
    Points
    What I've always called my child's enviable alacrity, his school called a need for ritalin... #artwiculate
  • tWordBird
    30
    Points
    Tweeting with alacrity, I’m bound to get annoying; but never fear oh tweeples dear, it’s just with WORDS I’m toying! ;0)

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