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  • noun An utter absurdity; folly.

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Examples

  • It’s a kind of maggotry that the current strain of Republicans specialise in, a way of channeling schadenfreude into hyper-smallminded barking.

    bachmann inner tube overdrive | clusterflock 2009

  • It’s a kind of maggotry that the current strain of Republicans specialise in, a way of channeling schadenfreude into hyper-smallminded barking.

    bachmann inner tube overdrive | clusterflock 2009

  • I do remember as we stood in the mouldy big Circus, having sundry of the lousy population idling within, whereby I did then liken it to a venerable cheese, in which is some faint stir of maggotry, that thou didst make a memorable speech against the land, where the only vocation of a nobleman is to defile the streets and be pimp to his own wife.

    Cromwell Alfred B. Richards

  • Further spurious maggotry & advanced script decomposition from calamitous Waking The Dead spin-off/afterbirth.

    The Guardian World News Sarah Dempster 2011

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