yarn
account, anecdote, belly laugh, blue story, braid, cable, causerie, chat, chin, chronicle, cock-and-bull story, cord, dirty joke, dirty story, epic,
via media - abnegation, abstinence, average, balance, calm, calmness, centre, compromise, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, evenness, fence,
regrettable - abominable, affecting, afflictive, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, calamitous, cheerless,
pep talk - address, after-dinner speech, agitation, arousal, chalk talk, debate, declamation, diatribe, eulogy, exasperation, excitation, excitement, exhortation, filibuster, firing,
human frailty - collapse, daintiness, delicacy, disintegration, fragility, frailty, human nature, humanity, indecisiveness, irresolution, lightness, mortality, weakness ,
hesitant - afraid, agnostic, ambiguous, ambivalent, averse, backward, bashful, boggling, canny, capricious, careful, cautious, chancy, changeable, circumspect,
inside out - altogether, ass over elbows, back-to-front, backwards, capsized, completely, comprehensively, entirely, exhaustively, fully, globally, hundred per cent, in and out, in full, in full measure,
neediness - beggary, deprivation, destitution, gripe, indigence, lack, mendicancy, necessity, need, pauperism, penury, pinch, poor, poverty, privation,
ring changes - chime, chink, clang, clank, clink, ding, diversify, dong, gong, jangle, jingle, knell, peal, ring, sound,
unprofitably - at a loss, ill, in the red, out, out of pocket ,
suspense - abeyance, agitation, all-overs, angst, anticipation, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apathy, apprehension, apprehensiveness,
regrettable - abominable, affecting, afflictive, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, calamitous, cheerless,
pep talk - address, after-dinner speech, agitation, arousal, chalk talk, debate, declamation, diatribe, eulogy, exasperation, excitation, excitement, exhortation, filibuster, firing,
human frailty - collapse, daintiness, delicacy, disintegration, fragility, frailty, human nature, humanity, indecisiveness, irresolution, lightness, mortality, weakness ,
hesitant - afraid, agnostic, ambiguous, ambivalent, averse, backward, bashful, boggling, canny, capricious, careful, cautious, chancy, changeable, circumspect,
inside out - altogether, ass over elbows, back-to-front, backwards, capsized, completely, comprehensively, entirely, exhaustively, fully, globally, hundred per cent, in and out, in full, in full measure,
neediness - beggary, deprivation, destitution, gripe, indigence, lack, mendicancy, necessity, need, pauperism, penury, pinch, poor, poverty, privation,
ring changes - chime, chink, clang, clank, clink, ding, diversify, dong, gong, jangle, jingle, knell, peal, ring, sound,
unprofitably - at a loss, ill, in the red, out, out of pocket ,
suspense - abeyance, agitation, all-overs, angst, anticipation, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apathy, apprehension, apprehensiveness,