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trended more to the left of centre.
trendy adj. 1 fashionable, stylish, … la mode, modern, up to date, up
to the minute, in vogue, voguish, all the rage, Slang hot, now,
with it, groovy, in the groove, in, flash: Sibyl travels with
that trendy set from Belgravia.
--n. 2 show-off, clothes-horse, coxcomb, exhibitionist, Slang
Brit pseud, grandstander: Don't you just hate those trendies
down at Cole's wine bar?
trial n. 1 test, testing, experiment, proof, try-out, trying out,
trial run, examination, check, checking, Colloq dry run: The
trials of the new life-jackets are to be conducted soon. 2
hearing, enquiry or inquiry, examination, inquisition,
litigation, judicial proceeding, lawsuit, contest: Throughout
the trial, the accused protested his innocence. 3 try, attempt,
endeavour, effort, venture, essay, Colloq go, shot, stab, fling,
whirl, crack, whack: This was their first trial at climbing the
north face. 4 trouble, affliction, tribulation, hardship,
adversity, suffering, grief, woe, misery, distress, bad or hard
luck, misfortune, hard times: Mona acknowledged the trial of
having ten children and no husband. 5 nuisance, irritation,
bother, bane, annoyance, pest, irritant, thorn in the flesh or
side, US bur or burr under the saddle, Colloq plague, hassle,
pain (in the neck), headache, Taboo slang pain in the Brit arse
or US ass: William, who is full of mischief, is a constant
trial to his mother.
--adj. 6 sample, experimental, exploratory, provisional,
probationary, tentative, conditional, pilot: Will you consider
a trial subscription to Verbatim, The Language Quarterly?
tribe n. race, stock, strain, nation, breed, people, seed, (ethnic)
group, gens, clan, blood, pedigree, family, sept, dynasty,
house; caste, class: It was important in that society to marry
someone from the same tribe.
tribunal n. court (of justice), bar, bench, judiciary, Inquisition, Star
Chamber: Should he be tried before a judicial tribunal or
pilloried by the tribunal of public opinion?
tributary n. branch, offshoot, streamlet, feeder, brook, rivulet, run,