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- noun a person who
clasps andsqueezes thehands in anexcessive expression ofdistress
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Examples
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The only drawback is getting the usual supercilious comment from that arch-handwringer ‘Bystander’.
Something Kind Of Grrrrrrrrr……….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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It may very well be that the biggest handwringer's ever would epitomize the platonic ideal of a handwringer, existing outside the universe as a pure mathimatical form.
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EDITOR: A generic handwringer of an article from the Telegraph
The Weekender: Education cuts, lies, spin, Scotland invaded by Border Police, more expensesgate! Oh the fun! Thatsnews 2009
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First of all, I want to register my disgust that TPM made comments on this story, including one by a hysterical pro-Clinton handwringer, front-page blog entries.
Obama: I "Profoundly Disagree" With Pastor Over "God Damn America" Comments 2009
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EDITOR: A generic handwringer of an article from the Telegraph
Archive 2009-09-01 Thatsnews 2009
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I hope this gets the handwringer and chicken little a chance to cool off.
Poll: Despite Obama Trip, McCain Still Holds Edge On Foreign Policy 2009
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OH FOR CHRISSAKES SHIT OR GET OFF THE POT. (handwringer). said with love, of course. my take on the Da VInci one.
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As an official handwringer, this line of attack doesn't really bother me so much.
McCain: Obama Has Confidence In Himself But Not In His Country 2009
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Find for him, Thy Anointed Won, a lefty handwringer who legislates most stridently from the bench, a champion of absurdity, let us see this scoundrel exalted, and then dispatch the Winged Monkey of Thy Perversity to throw his Righteous Wrench into those works!
Archive 2009-04-26 2009
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But handwringer, you and hid habitually ignore the documentary content of my posts - beyond screeching your default mantra: ‘hate-filled – anti-semitic – lies’; you have never responded sensibly.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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