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  • Let's stipulate the obvious: Hillary Clinton's reference last week to the RFK assassination was pluperfectly stupid and insensitive.

    Gotcha! 2008

  • Mr. Avery bowed pluperfectly, and Cally smiled suddenly.

    V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • Thus, the man who was going to remain above the political fray has revealed himself as pluperfectly political, ready to settle for the very kind of mandate (without the public option) that he opposed as a candidate challenging

    chicagotribune.com - 2009

  • But in America what good can be said of those who, living upon the fortunes of fathers or grandfathers, amassed in honest trade, -- residents of a particular street which is thereby rendered pluperfectly genteel, -- with no recommendation but that derived from fashion and idleness, -- draw the lines of social demarcation more closely than they are drawn in Europe, intellect and accomplishments being systematically snubbed where the possessors cannot show their family passes?

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

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