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- adjective
comparative form ofbatty : morebatty
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Examples
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And, of course, if there's one thing worse than being disturbed by neighbour noise, it's being disturbed by neighbour noise and then being told you don't have neighbours, which is what happens to poor Cristina Raines in The Sentinel, a Michael Winner film that looks battier with each passing year.
Why aren't more slasher movies set in blocks of flats? Anne Billson 2010
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The more the evidence points to complete innocence, the battier the MSM becomes: that's Whitewater in a nutshell.
Republicans Demand Obama Say He Wants Fitzgerald To Stay -- Even Though He Already Has 2009
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VELEZ-MITCHELL: She ` s back and battier than ever.
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The addiction to the scoop is the reason so many journalists choose to tote that notepad and stanch that hangover and, ignoring a gathering avalanche of doubts, listen so intently to a succession of batty and battier strangers who phone or e-mail or show up in the lobby unannounced to say they know where Jimmy Hoffa is buried.
A Claim to Camelot Friend, David 2008
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VELEZ-MITCHELL: She is back and she ` s battier than ever.
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Yeah, we fought a revolution to get rid of a king George, but Fox wants to install our very own new King George, and this one battier than the one we got rid of!
Think Progress » Fox News Anchor Calls Ted Kennedy A ‘Hostile Enemy Right Here On The Home Front’ 2007
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Bill-O's analysis is battier than all the bats that were found in an Army medical facility in White City, Oregon.
O'Reilly Doesn't Give a Bat's Ass About Walter Reed Scandal 2007
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(The battier Bush-haters add that the announcement is a publicity stunt to stoke public fear or serve some political purpose.)
From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007
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"Even battier than usual, " said Pip, and got a punch from Fatty.
The Mystery of the Strange Bundle Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952
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The nearer we got to the big house, though, the battier the enterprise seemed to me.
Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907
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