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- noun Alternative spelling of
fig leaf .
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Examples
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What do you call a figleaf that gets lost in pubic hair?
Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Crack Out the Crystal Balls 2006
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Saeb Erekat, is reduced to begging for a "figleaf".
The Guardian World News Seumas Milne 2011
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Mark Field (Con, Cities of London and Westminster) accused the government of using the protection zone as a "figleaf" covering up human rights abuse.
Epolitix News 2010
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- credentials and experience that are not a "figleaf" and which a number of paleo-conservative as well as neoconservative academics did possess.
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The court didn’t just blatantly give gun owners the finger; they got a mealy-mouthed, grudging admission that “shall not be infringed” means “... at least not without some kind of figleaf first”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional 2010
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The court didn’t just blatantly give gun owners the finger; they got a mealy-mouthed, grudging admission that “shall not be infringed” means “...at least not without some kind of figleaf first”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional 2010
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I go with the flow - I offer a figleaf of analysis at the end of each bit, once I've drawn the strips we work out together as a group, but this is essentially a sideshow for the kids, with Uncle Roger as their ink gimp.
Kids Read Comics Report (with preamble) Roger Langridge 2010
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It is the Tory way to use the deficit as an ideological figleaf to dismantle the welfare state and the Orange Book LibDem mob are making the neo-com wet dream possible - you can't put a rizla paper between them.
The spotlight begins to shine on the coalition's flaws and faultlines | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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Anyway: in a Planets and People book you may have an actual plot, or you may have some figleaf of a plot, but the main point is getting to contrast between at least two and possibly more planets 'worth of culture.
mrissa: Books read, late December mrissa 2010
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I go with the flow - I offer a figleaf of analysis at the end of each bit, once I've drawn the strips we work out together as a group, but this is essentially a sideshow for the kids, with Uncle Roger as their ink gimp.
Archive 2010-06-01 Roger Langridge 2010
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