- bungle: mismanage
- bureeaucracy: a complicated system of administrative agencies and officials
- buttress: support of reinforcement
- cajole: to persuade or obtain by flattery or deceit
- callous: unfeeling or insensitive
- calumny: a false statement deliberately made up to injure a person
- candid: fair; unposed
- cantankerous: foul-tempered and quarrelsome
- captious: quick to find petty faults or raise trifling objections
- catholic: broad or widely inclusive