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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bespeak .
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Examples
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The title bespeaks his exasperation, as if after having delivered a long string of wisdom to a noncompliant elite, he wants to make sure they will at least understand this.
Lapham's Quarterly: Perfecting the Paranoid Style in 500 BC and 2009 2009
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The title bespeaks its contents, but we quote a few brief extracts relating to rare English coins.] _Ecclesiastic Money_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832 Various
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Still, vacuous though the concept may be, the exasperation it bespeaks is real and justified.
Post-Partisanship 2008
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Still, vacuous though the concept may be, the exasperation it bespeaks is real and justified.
Post-Partisanship 2008
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The first glance of Nice, in short, bespeaks a higher and more fashionable tone of society than that of any French town, excepting Paris, through which we had passed.
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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Officers were they of higher note than their name bespeaks, and wielders, in the trust of the Great
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Officers were they of higher note than their name bespeaks, and wielders, in the trust of the Great Seal, of a power unknown of old, and now obnoxious to the Saxon.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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“That title bespeaks you a Castilian, Signor,” said the nun with quickness.
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How welcome he was to his parents his name bespeaks, Reuben, See a son.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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HAMMER: Hopefully it bespeaks - I believe I just used the word "bespeaks" - to the idea that the parties can also come together when this whole thing is all over.
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