pure-blooded



thoroughbred, well-bred ,

   the gallows - axe, burning, capital punishment, chair, crucifixion, electrocution, execution, fusillade, gallows, gas chamber, guillotine, hanging, hemlock, hot seat, poisoning,

   round about - about, again, all over, all round, all through, anticlockwise, around, at about, back, backward, by, by way of, circuitously, clockwise, close,

   harem girl - Delilah, Jezebel, adventuress, courtesan, demi-monde, femme fatale, houri, odalisque, seductress, temptress, vamp, vampire ,

   rancid - awful, bad, bad-smelling, blown, brackish, cloying, corrupt, decayed, disagreeable, faecal, foetid, foul, frowzy, fulsome, funky,

   cat the anchor - break ground, cast away, cast off, weigh anchor ,

   lack of feeling - anaesthesia, autism, chill, coldness, dullness, imprudence, indiscretion, insensibility, insensitivity, objectivity, poker face, promiscuity, self-absorption, straight face, withdrawal ,

   penal retribution - compensation, correction, deserts, discipline, infliction, judgement, nemesis, pain, pay, payment, penalty, penance, penology, price, punishment,

   carrot pudding - junket, mousse, pudding, trifle ,

   washed-out - all in, anaemic, ashen, blanched, bleached, bleary, bloodless, cadaverous, colourless, dead, dim, dingy, discoloured, dull, effete,

   ancillary - accessory, accompanying, additional, another, appurtenant, assistant, assisting, attendant, attending, auxiliary, coincident, collateral, contributory, extra, farther,