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Come to think of it, Facebook is looking kind of downish, too:
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Do they add a helpful rewrite on her behalf so it appears more populist than elitist and put-downish?
Jackson Williams: With Clinton It Would Be "Hillary Hates Hicks" -- With Obama It's "Compassion" 2009
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The best -- perhaps to show you what a downish day it was, the best performer in London was BAE Systems, your British aerospace.
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I remember having these kinds of elitist thoughts myself when Reagan was first elected, but in the twenty-eight years since then I've engaged in a systematic study of the psychodynamics of American politics, and come to realize how very misguided that put-downish analysis of middle income Americans.
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The murky-scuzzy vibe was gone, and a brighter and less downish look had taken its place.
Director and Studio Battling Over X-Men Origins: Wolverine? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Although presumably the Pleistocene rewilding folks feel that lions and elephants would promise to bring in enough ecotourism dollars to get it off the ground in a large-scale, well organized, top-downish way - something that the whole buffalo-commons-movement philosophy is not exactly on board with …
Lions, elephants and cheetahs (in America?) Oh, my! - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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There was a whiff of disappointment in Washington that Wall Street had a downish day even after all of the news about a bipartisan debt deal.
FOXNews.com Chris Stirewalt 2011
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The slightly run downish state of the place now was down to the couple who ran the Inn, running the business to fit in with how they want to live.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Now I know that there is a trickle-downish line of argument here: if firms have more money, they can spend more on wages, or on making goods cheaper, so ultimately the poor might benefit.
politicalbetting.com 2010
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That could amount to almost a third of the business in the United States and that biz has been flattish to downish for some time now.
Marketplace 2009
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