blighter

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Go and interview this blighter, and then bring him round here.

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  • Good luck, you lucky old blighter, and I mean that Yours very truly, martin elginbrodde , Major Mr. Campion sat staring at the signature for some seconds before he turned back to read the message once more. —  The Tiger In The Smoke - Allingham, Margery - Albert Campion 15
  • "Poor blighter," everyone said about him when she made him the happiest of men. —  EQMM, Sep/Oct 2005
  • It's dashed good of you, Freddie, to cook up a yarn like that to try and make things look better for the blighter, but it won't work. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jill the Reckless, by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Messy blighter, whoever he was The marks of muddy fingers were visible on the tent-flap. —  ADDERS ON THE HEATH
  • The blighter was laughing, heaving up and down in his chair. —  The Vatican Rip-Jonathan Gash- Lovejoy 05
 

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