Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
magpie , especially in the habit of hoarding objects.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Conceived as a live spectacle without a pre-recorded soundtrack, it is also the closest he has come to a pure silent feature, not that purity is a pertinent concept in the case of the magpielike Mr Maddin and his dense, crossbred melodramas.
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Susan was dipping, magpielike, into one of the powder table drawers.
Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009
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He’d come across the magpielike pattern once when he’d worked burglary—that time it had been an older woman in a posh neighborhood, who visited her neighbors regularly for tea.
Mourn Not Your Dead Deborah Crombie 1996
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He’d come across the magpielike pattern once when he’d worked burglary—that time it had been an older woman in a posh neighborhood, who visited her neighbors regularly for tea.
Mourn Not Your Dead Deborah Crombie 1996
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He’d come across the magpielike pattern once when he’d worked burglary—that time it had been an older woman in a posh neighborhood, who visited her neighbors regularly for tea.
Mourn Not Your Dead Deborah Crombie 1996
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Conceived as a live spectacle without a pre-recorded soundtrack, it is also the closest he has come to a pure silent feature, not that purity is a pertinent concept in the case of the magpielike Mr Maddin and his dense, crossbred melodramas. "
GreenCine Daily 2009
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