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He looked up from examining her ID with an expression of ill-concealed fury on his face.
TRIAL BY FIRE J.A. JANCE 2009
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There was ill-concealed angst in the shadow cabinet that they were adrift.
Ten days in which we saw Ed Miliband throw off his L-plates | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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Hence his increasingly ill-concealed expressions of contempt.
The President of Contempt Bret Stephens 2011
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I shake my head with ill-concealed contempt and start to move on when I feel a tug at my surplice.
At the Juvenile Bubonic Plague Telethon Con Chapman 2012
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“Have you made a decision about who's gonna be Crossing Guard Captain next year?” he asked, his voice burdened by an ill-concealed longing for my approval.
The Bodice-Ripper Free School Zone Act Con Chapman 2011
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The rule, for this ill-concealed meme, is to pick five other bloggers to receive the award, each of whom must display the illo and pick five more bloggers, and ....
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Three days later, having with craft ill-concealed his hiding-place,
NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010
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Too easy, it turned out…David Dimbleby Tonight we're in… long heartbroken sigh, interspersed with preposterously ill-concealed shudders Glasgow.
I'm sorry. Do speak up. I didn't quite catch that | Euan Ferguson 2011
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But his ill-concealed backing for anti-western terrorist groups, part of his revolutionary mission to change the world, made him multiple enemies.
Gaddafi: a vicious, sinister despot driven out on tidal wave of hatred 2011
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So the difficulty was solved, in a way, and Frona talked on about herself, with a successfully feigned girlhood innocence, as though she did not appreciate the other or understand her ill-concealed yearning for that which she might not have, but which was Frona's.
CHAPTER 9 2010
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