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Examples
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Remind me never to buy a wedding dress where the description includes the terms “slub” and “raw dege”.
Regretsy – I Don’t 2010
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Her last words “unimageinably physically ugly Chelsea who works for a dege fund firm” are an unacceptable personal, not to say, sexist attack.
The Politics of the Olympics - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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“She so desperately wants to prove that she is better than her husband I am sick with the whole lot of these phonies: from sex addicted Bill who made a luaghingstock out of the presedency, to the unimageinably physically ugly Chelsea who works for a dege fund firm”.
The Politics of the Olympics - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The nghede-dege, a species of perch, and another, the ndusi, are said to do the same.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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The apology of that Af - fembly is found in their fituation j but when we approve what they muft bear, it is in us the dege - nerate choice of a vitiated mind.
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Hihed manners, of the Italians, who, in the eftimate of the Greeks themfelves, had dege - nerated from the liberty and valour of the an - cient Lombards (93).
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon ... 1788
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Uta; they ape exceedingly civil, but their good breeding too frequently dege* nerates into ceremony •, and I cannot fay they are altogether fo much adapted to my tafte as the people of this country •, at the fame time there is a compofure in the Italians to which thefe people Teem abfolute ftrangers.
Letters from Henrietta to Morvina. Interspersed with Anecdotes, Historical and Amusing, of the ... 1777
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Not to mention learning that “slub” and “dege” aren’t actually words.
Regretsy – I Don’t 2010
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Without holinefs power be - comes tyranny, omnifcience craft, jufHce revenge and cruelty, - and even the amiable attribute of goodnefs lofesits charms, and dege - jierates into a blind promifcuous prodigality, or foolijh undifcern - ing fondnefs: but when thefe perfections are clothed in the beau - ties of holinefs, how Godlike, how majeflic, how lovely and at - tractive do they appear! and with what complacence does a mind faihioned after the divine image acquiefce in them!
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Saton, Englifti and Normans; the vanquilhed and the vanquilher; they all at laft intermingled; the original tribe was in number fuperior; and yet that fuperiority never prevented the incorpo - ration, fo that this ftate of our fettlement is not peculiar to Ireland; but the ordinary progrefs of the population and the circulation of the human fpi. cies, and as it were the trick of nature to pre - ferve by intermixture from dwindling and dege - neracy the animal proportions.
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