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- adjective Covered with
flyspecks .
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Examples
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But this level of clampdown, with every nickel being flyspecked before we can spend it, is unprecedented in my experience, the person said.
Budget Rift at CFTC Pulls Plug on Alarm Jean Eaglesham 2011
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When confronted by dubious toilets or flyspecked markets, people here daily use the expression, "mikwob pa touye ayisyen," which translates "germs don't kill Haitians."
Amid cholera outbreak in Haiti, a scramble to get soap William Booth 2010
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We got two flyspecked rooms with rattling fans and met Angel and Ruben for dinner at a pub on the front street.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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From now until 2012, he'll be flyspecked for every interaction with a special interest, lobbyist, wealthy individual, or Republican.
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Then, a few months later on the site of several former horrid flyspecked delis that failed opens a Mariachi, a Mexican place.
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Looking tense and tired, Smith watched as Cherry and Lutz flyspecked his creation.
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Salty perspiration trickled down his forehead and burned his eyes as he looked up at the flyspecked calendar.
Historical Novel about...Pembina Trish Short Lewis 2006
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Carol, looking through the flyspecked windows of the hotel, sees only rickety chairs and cuspidors, but Bea thrills to "the swell traveling man" she spies there, to the "lovely marble" soda fountain, and to all the stores — "one just for tobacco alone."
Sheer Data 2002
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Carol, looking through the flyspecked windows of the hotel, sees only rickety chairs and cuspidors, but Bea thrills to "the swell traveling man" she spies there, to the "lovely marble" soda fountain, and to all the stores — "one just for tobacco alone."
Sheer Data 2002
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Below the window hung a flyspecked oil painting of the Last Supper.
Hunting Season Barr, Nevada 2002
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