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  • verb Present participle of assail.

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Examples

  • I find nothing productive in assailing someone else's choices or life, and that is pretty much the level to which this "debate" has sunk.

    Archive 2004-07-01 M-mv 2004

  • I find nothing productive in assailing someone else's choices or life, and that is pretty much the level to which this "debate" has sunk.

    07.04 M-mv 2004

  • I find nothing productive in assailing someone else's choices or life, and that is pretty much the level to which this "debate" has sunk.

    In which R.T., an M-mv fave, responds to... M-mv 2004

  • I find nothing productive in assailing someone else's choices or life, and that is pretty much the level to which this "debate" has sunk.

    In which R.T., an M-mv fave, responds to... M-mv 2004

  • I find nothing productive in assailing someone else's choices or life, and that is pretty much the level to which this "debate" has sunk.

    07.04 M-mv 2004

  • I find nothing productive in assailing someone else's choices or life, and that is pretty much the level to which this "debate" has sunk.

    Archive 2004-07-01 M-mv 2004

  • The first she calls assailing, where I'm rough on Carl Sagan and Jesse Jackson, Mario Cuomo, Teddy Kennedy, Lowell Weicker, Elizabeth Taylor and so on; then analyzing specific problems, I hope shrewdly.

    Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist 1993

  • Audacity seems to refer to the assailing of others.

    The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997

  • Riding on Obama's traveling press bus through Virginia this afternoon, as reporters listened to a 30-minute call assailing Palin and traded lipstick jokes, there's no denying that Palin remains the story.

    PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All 2008

  • Riding on Obama's traveling press bus through Virginia this afternoon, as reporters listened to a 30-minute call assailing Palin and traded lipstick jokes, there's no denying that Palin remains the story.

    PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All 2008

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