graffiti

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Though you have to admit the graffiti is a little more cerebral than what you would normally see.

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  • They would have seen the warnings--graffiti, glares, posture, gestures--and they would have left. —  AHMM,June2006
  • Likewise, Bingham said the cost of painting over the graffiti is a "soft" one because it involves shifting around the schedules of existing employees, not hiring new ones. —  NEWS updates from www.voiceofsandiego.org
  • As the majority of Melbourne's Jewish population is located in Caulfield, it is fair to assume that this graffiti was aimed at them. —  Australian Politics
  • The city's current graffiti ordinance doesn't require rapid removal of graffiti, and it doesn't do enough to help victims, said Deb Rodda, executive director of Community Recycling Environmental Waste / Keep Dodge City Beautiful. —  Dodge City Daily Globe Home RSS
  • In Beautiful Losers, Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard's energized documentary celebrates the do-it-yourself subculture of artists engulfed in skateboarding, graffiti, and punk who gravitated toward the Lower East Side Alleged Gallery (of which Rose was the curator) in the late '80s. —  Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews
 

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  1. Italian, pl. of graffito; see graffito.
 

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