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  • "Has there been a recorded instance where a player ever been sold to a rival club, kept on the payroll by his former employers and deliberately undermined his new club, either by causing dressing-room unrest or playing rubbishly?" wonders Craig Fawcett.

    Footballers playing under the influence 2010

  • After doing rubbishly in America, ratings are starting to wilt in the UK too.

    Dancing With The Stars Betting Odds: Fatone & Ziering 2005

  • I am eating fairly rubbishly other than the times we've eaten out this week anyway - a further extension of just not caring about stuff right now.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2003

  • I am sleeping rubbishly at the moment and feel sleepy a lot in the day so that's probably it.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2003

  • White crystals sprinkled his old English coat, a most inadequate protection against such weather, while his breath was frozen about the collar, and the fur cap he could scarcely hold in one stiffened hand was of the cheap and rubbishly description that Jew peddlers retail to the new arrival in

    Lorimer of the Northwest Harold Bindloss 1905

  • He was boamin '(7) asleep upo' d 'fauf, (8) wiva rubbishly beak iv his hand;

    Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895

  • You've no evidence, you have only wretched rubbishly suspicions like Zametov's!

    Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851

  • Shakspeare has thrust such rubbishly feelings into a corner -- the dark dusky heart of Don

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811

  • The never-ending saga of Billie Jackson, his scary estate friends and the gun that no-one ever seems to find, despite being so rubbishly hidden, finally does reach a conclusion.

    Inside TV Blog Andy Welch 2010

  • Presumably because they'd have to censor it rubbishly for radio.

    unknown title 2009

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