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  • noun Plural form of candy-ass.

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Examples

  • Don't you know we still need your candy-asses over there?

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • The BMC calendar is legal -- even without Ford's blessing -- and when you protect yourself from legal liability by shutting it down, you incur PR liability by seeming like a bunch of candy-asses who can be bullied into submission by a memo from some white-shoe legal goon from a Fortune 100.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • They could be controlled by sufficiently severe punishments for wrongdoing, but the candy-asses of America don't have the balls for that, so pay up or shut up!

    Obama: Banks 'don't get it' 2009

  • The minute that so-called liberals stop pooping out gummy bears and jolly ranchers, I'll stop calling them candy-asses.

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

  • Several of the people who live in my building are reporters, and I occasionally ask them -- in a much nicer way than I will express here -- why their more famous colleagues are such candy-asses, but they claim not to know.

    Navel-Gazing Washington Moments Heo 2008

  • Several of the people who live in my building are reporters, and I occasionally ask them -- in a much nicer way than I will express here -- why their more famous colleagues are such candy-asses, but they claim not to know.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Heo 2008

  • The BMC calendar is legal -- even without Ford's blessing -- and when you protect yourself from legal liability by shutting it down, you incur PR liability by seeming like a bunch of candy-asses who can be bullied into submission by a memo from some white-shoe legal goon from a Fortune 100.

    B2fxxx 2008

  • Steve has labeled millions of christians as being "candy-asses", which certainly looks to me like an expression of contempt for their religious convictions.

    The Memory Hole 2005

  • While I might have had a little of the Right Stuff, there were legions of others who had it in abundance, pilots who would make the likes of Alan Shepard and John Glenn look like candy-asses.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • I'll tell you why -- they were a bunch of Hugh Grant watchin ', Michael Bolton listenin' nancy-boy candy-asses.

    The Sudden Curve: 2004

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