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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
caterwaul .
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Examples
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“Because of this little fish, up to 80,000 people are going to lose jobs,” caterwauled Sean Hannity on Fox in mid-May.
Wonk Room 2009
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“Because of this little fish, up to 80,000 people are going to lose jobs,” caterwauled Sean Hannity on Fox in mid-May.
Wonk Room » California Republicans Will Use Any Excuse Other Than Climate Change To Explain Drought 2009
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Well we recall all those charmingly piqued 'conservatives' who'd clutch the pearls as they shrieked, cried & caterwauled over & over & over again for Years about those 'nasty Clinton's!!'
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The nomination was greeted warmly by most on the political left, though a few have caterwauled that Ms. Kagan might be a "stealth" moderate because she lacks judicial experience and has a meager paper trail.
Elena Obama 2010
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Honeysuckle Weeks has her back to the audience early on, so that it's hard to make out what's being caterwauled, but she's very funny in her first outing as a lady, slicing her vowels into slivers and treating her parasol as if it were a loaded gun.
Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010
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To the innocent nostrils of spring there was caterwauled a filthy serenade.
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And after a Romanian model caterwauled his way through Fight For This Love, Louis burped:
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If the drinking songs caterwauled in taverns could have been turned into an instrument upon which they might be played, this was it.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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Tory backbenchers attempted to inflict more pain on the PM over budget cuts but he scuttled behind his stockade and caterwauled at them like an 80s class-warrior.
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Tory backbenchers attempted to inflict more pain on the PM over budget cuts but he scuttled behind his stockade and caterwauled at them like an 80s class-warrior.
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