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Word:  scepter

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Cynical Definitions

n. A monarch's weapon of authority.

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Cynical Quotations

[The scepter] was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.

— Ambrose Bierce

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