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  • noun Plural form of amuser.

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Examples

  • March 24th, 2008 at 4: 28 pm party poker rigged says: party poker rigged amusers cocked pocketful testified? consecration

    Think Progress » Much bigger than the Dukestir. 2006

  • As some see it, this solidifies the standing of cartoonists as serious artists rather than as dedicated grubbers and amusers of children.

    A Century of Cartoons 2005

  • As some see it, this solidifies the standing of cartoonists as serious artists rather than as dedicated grubbers and amusers of children.

    A Century of Cartoons 2005

  • Heave we aside the fallacy, as punical as finikin, that it was not the king kingself but his inseparable sisters, uncontrollable nighttalkers, Skertsiraizde with Donyahzade, who afterwards, when the robberers shot up the socialights, came down into the world as amusers and were staged by Madame Sudlow as Rosa and Lily Miskinguette in the pantalime that two pitts paythronosed, Miliodorus and Galathee.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • There now: not only do I have mammals for parents, but I am myself my own uncle, these 3-V amusers of children are always everyone's uncle.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • There now: not only do I have mammals for parents, but I am myself my own uncle, these 3-V amusers of children are always everyone's uncle.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • "Jongleur d'Ely," written in England in the thirteenth century, is a good specimen of the word-fencing at which itinerant amusers were expert.

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • In answer to all these serious critics Crawford declared that novelists are “public amusers, ” who must always write largely about love and in Anglo-Saxon countries must write under the eyes of the ubiquitous young girl.

    Chapter 9. The Eighties and Their Kin. Section 2. Francis Marion Crawford 1921

  • There was a good deal of merriment to divert our attention, for there were clowns and merry-andrews passing along the highroad, with singlestick players, Punch and Judy shows, and other public amusers.

    The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins Brampton, Henry H 1904

  • This man of fashion was one of those frivolous people who never go deep into things, for whom ideas are only a pastime, and who consider philosophers or men of letters as amusers.

    Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903

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