A flexitarian is someone who rarely, though occasionally, consumes meat, including red meat, poultry, and seafood. A climatarian is someone who eats less meat—especially the most energy-consuming meats, like beef and lamb—specifically for environmental reasons. Brian Kateman, "Beyond 'Vegetarian'," Atlantic, March 14, 2016
The moderate, conscious eater—the flexitarian—knows where the goal lies: a diet that’s higher in plants and lower in both animal products and hyperprocessed foods, the stuff that makes up something like three-quarters of what’s sold in supermarkets. Mark Bittman, "Healthy, Meet Delicious," New York Times, April 23, 2013
Below me along the lifelines I was aware of many sailors joining in these observations, gazing dumbstruck at it as something transmundane. William Brinkley, The Last Ship, 1988
... a common labourer and a travelling tinker had propounded and discussed one of the most ancient theories of transmundane dominion and influence on mundane affairs. George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, 1859
He's a bit farouche, but I like the way he enthuses about what interests him. It's not put on. Richard Aldington, Death of a Hero, 1929
Many of the women in these stories are farouche--they're outsiders, they're troubled, they lack polish, they dream too much. Joy Williams, "Introducion" Fantastic Women: 18 tales of the surreal and the sublime from Tin House, 2011
It had, when I first went to town, just become the fashion for young men of fortune to keep house, and to give their bachelor establishments the importance hitherto reserved for the household of a Benedict. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Devereux, 1829
"Why are you so anxious for all England to be informed that you are a Benedict?" I enquired scornfully. Alan Dale, A Marriage Below Zero, 1889
A row between the EEC and the US is threatening to scupper the UN Convention on the Ozone Layer, which was to have been agreed in Vienna next month. "Ozone agreement up in the air," New Scientist, February 7, 1985
McMaster has tried to prevent his celebrity from scuppering his career. Patrick Radden Keefe, "McMaster and Commander," The New Yorker, April 30, 2018
As would have been the case a million years ago, a typical colonist can expect to be edentate by the time he or she is thirty years old, having suffered many skull-cracking toothaches on the way. Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos, 1985
Anyway, an edentate man led a bloated, mouth-foaming goat down a road webbed with knee-deep gullies. Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project, 2008
I say to Lord Hartington before you all, not by any backstairs intrigue and not by any secret negotiations, but in the face of this great meeting held in this great town and before all of England ... "Come over and help us!" Herbert Maxwell, "Lord Randolph Churchill," The National Review, Vol. XXV, March to August 1895
He would never believe it--it was a nasty piece of backstairs gossip! Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, 1908