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- noun Alternative form of
publicity hound .
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Examples
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Last fall, Jones, the publicity-hound head of a church of 50 followers, stoked international alarm with his claim he would light a bonfire with Islam's holy book on the anniversary of September 11th.
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I'm just trying to shut down Wallace's attempted thread-hijacking, and I don't have alot of outrage or sympathy for a publicity-hound like JTP after his party has used the Constitution as toilet paper for most of my adult life.
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Ann Coulter is a vulgar, mean-spirited publicity-hound.
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Moreover, could we be witnessing (from back row seats) a battle royale between two powerful men -- a publicity-hound civilian, Richard the Bulldozer (such was Holbrooke's nickname in the Balkans, where he helped bring about the Bosnia cease-fire), and a high-ranking military man, Admiral Mike?
John Brown: Strategic Communications and the Graveyard of Empires 2009
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And there was also the flim-flam spot painting Obama as some scheming publicity-hound, passing up a visit with wounded troops only because his media entourage couldn't come, too.
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Tough-talking publicity-hound vowing to bring law and order to Iraq - then hightailing it out of there after a disastrous 14 weeks, leaving the place far less safe than he found it.
THE NEWS BLOG 2004
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DECLINING -- a trend neither you paranoids or your dumb-as-a-stump governor, your publicity-hound Maricopa County sheriff nor all too many of your legislators want to or will acknowledge.
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DECLINING -- a trend neither you paranoids or your dumb-as-a-stump governor, your publicity-hound Maricopa County sheriff nor all too many of your legislators want to or will acknowledge.
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DECLINING -- a trend neither you paranoids or your dumb-as-a-stump governor, your publicity-hound Maricopa County sheriff nor all too many of your legislators want to or will acknowledge.
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I'd always taken the employment of Mirza to be a stunt on the part of Boris Johnson's publicity-hound press office, but to see Warsi mirroring her terms in depth brought to mind the question as to who is playing whom.
Shiraz Socialist 2009
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