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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
swamp .
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Examples
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Anyway, there are only so many expletives one can use to describe the sizzling, crushing, swamplike conditions we are currently enduring.
Shabina S. Khatri: How Hot Is It In Doha, Qatar? Car-Baked Cookies Hot Shabina S. Khatri 2010
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Anyway, there are only so many expletives one can use to describe the sizzling, crushing, swamplike conditions we are currently enduring.
Shabina S. Khatri: How Hot Is It In Doha, Qatar? Car-Baked Cookies Hot 2010
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Especially to the Zenobians, who were most at home in a swamplike setting, any large dry area seemed much like any other.
Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001
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He has this wonderful picture of London in the fog and the mud and the wet and everything, and he says, you know, ` So much fog and there's so much appearing that it would not be a wonder if a megalosaurus were seen walking along Hobin Hill because it seemed almost primeval, the swamplike nature of London. '
Karl Marx: A Life 2000
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Professor Vendler's main error, so glaring that one can only wonder whether, numbed by the nine other books under review, she actually read the whole of Sexual Personae, is this claim: "To Paglia, women writers remain 'chthonic,' earthbound, and swamplike, unable to rise to such inventive Apollonian designs."
Feminism and Literature: An Exchange Bonaparte, Felicia 1990
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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". noun [1] 1 1. an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region.
Latest Articles mark steyn column 2010
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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". noun [1] 1 1. an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region.
Latest Articles mark steyn column 2010
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In his new exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the octogenarian reveals himself to be something of a snake charmer; sinuous blood-red lines and flamelike markings cohere just enough to form representational images-vast, ornate interiors in the first room of the gallery and spooky, swamplike landscapes in the next.,
artforum.com 2009
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In his new exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the octogenarian reveals himself to be something of a snake charmer; sinuous blood-red lines and flamelike markings cohere just enough to form representational images-vast, ornate interiors in the first room of the gallery and spooky, swamplike landscapes in the next.,
artforum.com 2009
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In his new exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the octogenarian reveals himself to be something of a snake charmer; sinuous blood-red lines and flamelike markings cohere just enough to form representational images-vast, ornate interiors in the first room of the gallery and spooky, swamplike landscapes in the next.,
artforum.com 2009
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