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- verb Present participle of
proposition .
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Examples
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Unless your definition of propositioning is completely different then the norm that is definitely sexual harassment.
Muslim woman fired for not wearing revealing enough dress at work - Feministing 2008
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Gwyneth Paltrow's anger at smutty Jonathan Ross 'propositioning' her for sex
Home | Mail Online 2009
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Mr. Bart says that he could not even conclude a breakfast negotiation with a literary agent for the rights to a novel without her propositioning him.
L.A. Confidential Edward Jay Epstein 2011
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Law takes intent into account, the officer wouldn't have arrested the man if he hadn't obviously committed to propositioning him.
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The teachers who get caught propositioning male students are typically wholesome family women, according to interviews with neighbors.
Born Too Soon: America's Hottest Teachers Con Chapman 2011
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It is summer 2001 in Provence and 43-year-old barrister Patrick, father of two sons, husband to Mary, has been propositioning an ex-girlfriend, Julia, in the garden of his mother's house.
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Gainsbourg, a revered pop juggernaut since the late 60s, might be best known for bedding Jane Birkin and Brigitte Bardot and sexually propositioning Whitney Houston on television but it was his 1971 sonic masterpiece Histoire de Melody Nelson that paved the way for symphonic acts like Air and really any other band that uses vast string arrangements or tries to even begin to tackle a "concept" album.
Emily Cohen: Je T'aime Sir Gainsbourg Emily Cohen 2011
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Even if he was propositioning the cop - which I think his guilty plea certainly suggests - how is it illegal to touch someone else's foot and show your hand in the stall?
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Gainsbourg, a revered pop juggernaut since the late 60s, might be best known for bedding Jane Birkin and Brigitte Bardot and sexually propositioning Whitney Houston on television but it was his 1971 sonic masterpiece Histoire de Melody Nelson that paved the way for symphonic acts like Air and really any other band that uses vast string arrangements or tries to even begin to tackle a "concept" album.
Emily Cohen: Je T'aime Sir Gainsbourg Emily Cohen 2011
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Obviously he was propositioning the cop, but to what harm?
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