Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
GRIFT
Etymology
Noun
grift (plural grifts)
(US, slang) A confidence game or swindle. [from 1906]
Synonyms
• See also deception
Verb
grift (third-person singular simple present grifts, present participle grifting, simple past and past participle grifted)
(transitive, US, slang) To obtain illegally, as by con game. [from early 20th c.]
(intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money illegally. [from early 20th c.]
(intransitive, US, slang) To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means.
Source: Wiktionary
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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