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  • Though portrayed in the media as a hickish Hatfield-McCoy style feud, the real question about fracking is why individual citizens are left to cope with high stakes players in a global game of energy monopoly, without appropriate governmental protection from the many ramifications to health, communities, the environmental, critical resources, and the economy?

    Alison Rose Levy: News Coverage Vs. PR: Is Fracking a Panacea or a Ponzi Scheme? Alison Rose Levy 2011

  • All summer we jammed, surrounded by all kinds, not only the hickish thugs and cruel populars, but even some of the meaner religious types— mostly kids our own age that usually couldn't wait to tell us how soon we'd be slow-roasting on the flames from Satan's anus because of our music.

    CfK Kilean Kennedy 2011

  • As hickish and wild as Ross Perot often appeared to be in making his presidential bid years ago, he did accomplish one thing, and that was send a jolt through Congress that broke loose lots of log jams.

    Broken Government: How to fix Congress? 2010

  • Judging from the subject matter, though, I'm hoping it gets a wide enough opening even to reach my rather hickish little corner of the world

    The Coens as "Serious" men? Well, sort of, and here's a look Reel Fanatic 2009

  • But is it REALLY a redneck, hickish thing to do to boo somebody who sings the national anthem like he did?

    Bruno Movie Review | /Film 2009

  • We just sorta think of it as our little hickish version of natural selection.

    "Boo" works just fine, thank you « Lab Kat 2006

  • He is the visionary, the creator, and we the talented yet hickish extension of his designs.

    outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2001

  • Well, if he ride me, let the fool sit fast, for my wit is very hickish: which if he spur with his copper reply, when it bleeds, it will all to besmear their consciences.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • I'm defensive, and I wince when it's portrayed, as it often is by condescending elitists, as hickish or backwards.

    WORLDMag.com 2009

  • It is even harder to take issue without seeming hickish and dickish.

    Out Of Left Field 2009

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