guttersnipe

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For his part, Truman regarded the columnist as a "guttersnipe," and with good reason.

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  • Ham, who looked like a guttersnipe from Tokyo low-town. —  140 - Jiu San
  • She's a guttersnipe, comes from some bourgeois family out in the sticks. —  F ;SF - vol 096 issue 06 - June 1999
  • It was the kind of guttersnipe thought which you repress and dismiss. —  The Benevent Treasure - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 26: 1953
  • Straw always has annoyed me: he pretends to be meek and mild, and reasonable but he is a total two-faced guttersnipe and hasn't even got the guts to admit it. —  BlogCymru.com
  • Your so-called questions are insulting, and are more the sort of nauseating construction a guttersnipe employs, than anything an honest reporter would ask. —  Patterico's Pontifications
 

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