Word of the Day – Barratry

• Noun: Barratry
  1. the purchase or sale of office or preferment in church or state
  2. an unlawful act or fraudulent breach of duty by a master of a ship or by the mariners to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo
  3. the persistent incitement of litigation
• Synonyms:
  1. contravention
  2. dereliction
  3. disregard
  4. infraction
  5. infringement
  6. noncompliance
  7. offense
  8. violation
• Usage:
  1. “But Captain Krausa listened quietly, then answered with real poetry–he accused the Losian of every crime from barratry to  mopery and dopery in the spaceways.”
• Encountered:
  1. While reading Robert A. Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy.

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