Day 1,298: defang, soliciting
A new law aimed at defanging it and similar groups came into force last week: it bars them from soliciting donations through fear.
Artwork of the day
Solicitors Head
Lucian Freud
Date: 2003
Style: Expressionism
Genre: portrait
Word of the day
defang: to make someone or something less harmful, so that he, she, or it is no longer dangerous
soliciting: the act of offering to have sex for money
Quote of the day
“There is nothing that defangs a woman quite like being called beautiful,”
― Laura Thalassa, A Strange Hymn