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It was the whole damned caboodle: the clever dickery, the snobbery, the preppy prissiness and the screaming, stomach-churning, nausea-inducing, and apparently universal, contempt for women.
Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick Christina Patterson 2010
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If we are alone and think about how we've navigated through society, we will accuse ourselves of dickery, defend the action, and after a while see through our own lie.
Wretchedness joshenglish 2009
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It was the whole damned caboodle: the clever dickery, the snobbery, the preppy prissiness and the screaming, stomach-churning, nausea-inducing, and apparently universal, contempt for women.
Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick Christina Patterson 2010
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It was the whole damned caboodle: the clever dickery, the snobbery, the preppy prissiness and the screaming, stomach-churning, nausea-inducing, and apparently universal, contempt for women.
Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick Christina Patterson 2010
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If we are around other people and someone claims we've been a dick, we will defend ourselves, we won't admit to dickery, but a misunderstanding.
Wretchedness joshenglish 2009
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It was the whole damned caboodle: the clever dickery, the snobbery, the preppy prissiness and the screaming, stomach-churning, nausea-inducing, and apparently universal, contempt for women.
Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick Christina Patterson 2010
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So profound is the scope of Donald Rumsfeld's dickery, in other words his "dick breadth," that the country will continue to smell it for years to come.
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Stewart goes on to segue to a segment in which he follows the life of "United Jonco International" in order to explain the many sketchy dealings that led to the crisis, including asleep-at-the-switch ratings agencies, transparency issues at the Fed, bogus corporate bonuses, overvalued toxic assets, rampant accounting fraud and a catch-all term for a host of other established Wall Street practices that I'll simply call "dickery."
'Daily Show' Takes On Financial Regulatory Reform, Explains Dodgy Wall Street Practices (VIDEO) 2010
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Comprised of six members who are all dicks in their own right, the Gang of Six is an excellent example of Gestalt dickery, in which the whole is greater than the sum of its dicks.
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Comprised of six members who are all dicks in their own right, the Gang of Six is an excellent example of Gestalt dickery, in which the whole is greater than the sum of its dicks.
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