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RoverBoy is a common, garden-variety gutter-snipe.
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In fact, Digg seems almost completely void of humanity - filled with gutter-snipe misogyny, fringe politics, and the crassest kinds of juvenile behavior.
Slashdot Founder Questions Crowd’s Wisdom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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How lovely it would be if presidential contests could rise above the vulgar, gutter-snipe operations that they have always been and become instead affairs of calm discourse and impeccable manners.
Hillary Campaign: She "Misspoke" About Bosnia Sniper Incident 2009
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I'm really disgusted at Hillary's gutter-snipe politics.
Hillary On The Morning Shows: Surprised By Photo Of Her And Rezko 2009
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Pegler also referred to Truman as a "thin-lipped hater" (Truman, in turn, called Pegler a "rat" and "gutter-snipe").
Palin Quoted Writer Who Once Lamented Failure To Assassinate FDR 2009
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At that very moment as if under his hand appeared a boy of about fifteen or sixteen, one of the gutter-snipe of Paris.
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But if he wanted a gutter-snipe in one of his plays, he would have to find a gutter-lad and paint him from life.
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As for the gondolier, he was “a mangy, barefooted gutter-snipe with a portion of his raiment on exhibition which should have been sacred from public scrutiny” his shirttail.40 Mark Twain, Dan, and the Doctor investigated the Bridge of Sighs, where men walked to their incarceration, lunacy, and death under the Doges and the hulking Cathedral of St. Mark.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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As for the gondolier, he was “a mangy, barefooted gutter-snipe with a portion of his raiment on exhibition which should have been sacred from public scrutiny” his shirttail.40 Mark Twain, Dan, and the Doctor investigated the Bridge of Sighs, where men walked to their incarceration, lunacy, and death under the Doges and the hulking Cathedral of St. Mark.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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A couple of the children came in — two little girls, with thin, freckled, gutter-snipe faces; their clothes were positively wretched.
Hunger 2003
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