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- noun Plural form of
Adonis .
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Examples
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Nelson Childs was one of those Adonises who glide through high school on a magic carpet, successful in studies, in sports and in social life.
Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011
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Mike and Grant, Adonises both, were matched up to clash at catching.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Small Minds and Giant Jesus. Tallulah Morehead 2011
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Nelson Childs was one of those Adonises who glide through high school on a magic carpet, successful in studies, in sports and in social life.
Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011
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The ha-ha moment went to the identical Winklevoss twins, as the crew-rowing Adonises decide whether they should mincemeat the Facebook founder for stealing their idea.
'Social Network' twins played by unrelated men. The solution? Use only one face. Monica Hesse 2010
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Mike and Grant, Adonises both, were matched up to clash at catching.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Small Minds and Giant Jesus. Tallulah Morehead 2011
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Nelson Childs was one of those Adonises who glide through high school on a magic carpet, successful in studies, in sports and in social life.
Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011
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Nelson Childs was one of those Adonises who glide through high school on a magic carpet, successful in studies, in sports and in social life.
Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011
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Maybe they just stood on the front of their plank with the wave curlicuing behind and over them, feet together, hair flowing behind, perfectly balanced, perfectly spaced apart on the waves as in the engraving, Adonises and Aphrodites of Kealakekua, and the only thing you would hear from the beach aside from the sift and crash of surf was laughter and cries of innocent joy.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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Abandoning my struggle to decipher any coherent meaning behind the name of the place, I went in and prepared myself to be impressed by what I imagined to be hordes of glistening tan-skinned Adonises.
i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010
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Abandoning my struggle to decipher any coherent meaning behind the name of the place, I went in and prepared myself to be impressed by what I imagined to be hordes of glistening tan-skinned Adonises.
i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010
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