gaggery
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It’s a mildly funny scene, partly because of its light physical comedy and sight gaggery, although also because Mr. Nolte, his signature growl now often at sepulchral depths, has been doing a fair impression of a wild beast for years.
From New York Times
The desperation allows “Horrible Bosses” to graze ever so lightly against some unpleasant social realities and to find a glimmer of class consciousness in an avalanche of crude gaggery.
From New York Times
But the editors of the Cydoner could look fondly back on three months of unbridled gaggery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough … the fact will prevail through the universe … but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail.
From Project Gutenberg
If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman, it is enough—the fact will prevail through the universe; but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail.
From Project Gutenberg
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