dolose

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
6

Definition of dolose

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (historical, rare)Deceitful, with hidden malice.
    “That having been obtained, everything should be restored to the former position, and the dolose party be condemned.”
    “Several texts tell us, however, that when the owner was a minor, there is a remedy against the dolose slave.”
    “A dolose act was an act committed with a view to causing damage. […] a dolose act will by construction always be culpable; on the other hand, a culpable act might either be dolose, if the occurrence of the harm was intended, or not, if it was not.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dolosus; compare dolus.

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