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- adverb In a
cheesy manner
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Examples
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Uriji actually said he "got killed" on the deal, and his refusal to cheesily spin the loss of Anthony and Billups will make you secretly root for the Nuggets GM.
Knicks' Billups for Best Supporting Actor Jason Gay 2011
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Say what you will about John Milius and the original but it was never less than dedicated to finding a visual equivalent to the cheesily overwrought fiction of author Robert Howard.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Conan the Barbarian Marshall Fine 2011
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Opens BFI Southbank, SE1, Fri 30After a spell in a very clean Malaysian prison, Khan's cheesily cool gangster boss comes to Berlin for a cat-and-mouse action workout that looks to be Bollywood's answer to Mission: Impossible, except with song-and-dance numbers.
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Ladbrokes branded him Britain's worst tipster with the bookies' spokesman David Williams cheesily quipping: The prime minister is giving pin-stickers a bad name.
Tattenham Corner 2011
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These bonds, so cheesily sexualised, are the very principle of narrative obstruction itself.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 9: Winter’s Heart (2000) Adam Roberts 2010
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These bonds, so cheesily sexualised, are the very principle of narrative obstruction itself.
Archive 2010-05-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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One hopeful paramour even cheesily tripped right into Prince Uncharming's arms in what was clearly a staged damsel-in-this-dress moment.
Andy Ostroy: Is ABC's The Bachelor/Bachelorette Racist? 2010
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It has a story to tell and unapologetically tells it, often quite cheesily, Richard Attenborough-style.
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It's an intriguing snapshot of the quotations Kindle users save for future reference, and while I don't seem to share their tastes – at the time of writing, seven of the top 10 entries are from Dan Brown or the cheesily sermonising Christian bestseller The Shack – I do share the underlying urge.
This column will change your life: Make a book of your own 2010
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Three or four actors dressed like Hoffmann march onstage; a few sheets of paper periodically drift down from the flies; when Hoffmann's friend Nicklausse sings an aria about a violin, a violin magically and cheesily appears behind a scrim.
The Real Offenbach 2009
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