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  • A bigger problem is the fact that Xinhua is often face-rakingly boring, as one would expect from an organization that believes "news coverage should help beef up the confidence of the market and unity of the nation."

    All the Propaganda That’s Fit to Print 2010

  • The headline is muck-rakingly attention grabbing but the article does state that the rumors are "utterly unfounded" to avoid any culpability in smear.

    Election Central Sunday Roundup 2009

  • 'He bent double and vomited rakingly on to the turf.

    Rat Race Francis, Dick 1970

  • Any thing more supremely ridiculous can hardly be imagined than this figure, scantily draped in white, its one foot covered with a big blue sock, a dingy cap set rakingly askew on its shaven head, and placid satisfaction beaming in its broad red face, as it flourished a mug in one hand, an old boot in the other, calling them canteen and knapsack, while it skipped and fluttered in the most unearthly fashion.

    Hospital Sketches 1863

  • Anything more supremely ridiculous can hardly be imagined than this figure, scantily draped in white, its one foot covered with a big blue sock, a dingy cap set rakingly askew on its shaven head, and placid satisfaction beaming in its broad red face, as it flourished a mug in one hand, an old boot in the other, calling them canteen and knapsack, while it skipped and fluttered in the most unearthly fashion.

    Hospital Sketches Louisa May Alcott 1860

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