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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of caterwaul.

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Examples

  • “Because of this little fish, up to 80,000 people are going to lose jobs,” caterwauled Sean Hannity on Fox in mid-May.

    Wonk Room 2009

  • “Because of this little fish, up to 80,000 people are going to lose jobs,” caterwauled Sean Hannity on Fox in mid-May.

    Wonk Room » California Republicans Will Use Any Excuse Other Than Climate Change To Explain Drought 2009

  • Well we recall all those charmingly piqued 'conservatives' who'd clutch the pearls as they shrieked, cried & caterwauled over & over & over again for Years about those 'nasty Clinton's!!'

    Awkward questions - poli 2010

  • The nomination was greeted warmly by most on the political left, though a few have caterwauled that Ms. Kagan might be a "stealth" moderate because she lacks judicial experience and has a meager paper trail.

    Elena Obama 2010

  • Honeysuckle Weeks has her back to the audience early on, so that it's hard to make out what's being caterwauled, but she's very funny in her first outing as a lady, slicing her vowels into slivers and treating her parasol as if it were a loaded gun.

    Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010

  • To the innocent nostrils of spring there was caterwauled a filthy serenade.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • And after a Romanian model caterwauled his way through Fight For This Love, Louis burped:

    Cheryl Cole & Ashley Cole! The Showdown! Today! 2010

  • If the drinking songs caterwauled in taverns could have been turned into an instrument upon which they might be played, this was it.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Tory backbenchers attempted to inflict more pain on the PM over budget cuts but he scuttled behind his stockade and caterwauled at them like an 80s class-warrior.

    A percentage game at PMQs 2009

  • Tory backbenchers attempted to inflict more pain on the PM over budget cuts but he scuttled behind his stockade and caterwauled at them like an 80s class-warrior.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

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