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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
martyr .
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Examples
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We think you should buy her one of these five things, then act a little martyrlike when you find out she didn\'t reciprocate.
Michelle Madhok: Five Passive-Aggressive Gifts for Your Frenemy 2009
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We think you should buy her one of these five things, then act a little martyrlike when you find out she didn\'t reciprocate.
Michelle Madhok: Five Passive-Aggressive Gifts for Your Frenemy 2009
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We think you should buy her one of these five things, then act a little martyrlike when you find out she didn't reciprocate.
Michelle Madhok: Five Passive-Aggressive Gifts for Your Frenemy 2009
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But would his capture set off martyrlike attacks like suicide bombings?
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He was the butt of all our jokes, and bore them with the most admirable and martyrlike patience.
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Scully shows a martyrlike patience in the face of this, as befits a man who's had to hear innumerable jests about veal and spotted owls at carnivorous Republican fundraisers.
Political Animals 2002
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Scully shows a martyrlike patience in the face of this, as befits a man who's had to hear innumerable jests about veal and spotted owls at carnivorous Republican fundraisers.
Political Animals 2002
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She flushed, her beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she submitted herself to
War and Peace 2003
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He spread his arms outward, martyrlike, offering himself.
Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002
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He spread his arms outward, martyrlike, offering himself.
Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002
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