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We all diet sometimes and we all need a spankingly good line in self-delusion, which is, let's be honest, the primary quality necessary for entering into a fast and excessive weight-loss regime.

Our preoccupation with dieting has become a national neurosis | Louise Foxcroft 2012

In Private Eye: The First 50 Years £25, the spankingly appealing and classy new anniversary biog by Adam Macqueen – a rewarding must for any Eye devotee – eminent staffer Barry Fantoni laments Neasden FC's sad death because Ian Hislop "seems not to be interested in football nor knows anything about it".

Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating 2011

Simon Jenkins signed off from his Sunday Times column with a spankingly good piece last weekend:

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2008

Now we have a brand new, lovely spankingly thin LCD screen, 19, very colourful and pretty.

21st January '05 2005

It's a Ford Focus, a very pretty sky blue, and it's a W-reg, which is by far the spankingly newest car I've ever owned!!!!

sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2003

Basically it was my turn on the rota on Thursday, but Michael had done such a spankingly good job on Wednesday that they all still sparkled on Thursday.

sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

So I set up a new insurance policy on the phone right then and there, and paid the deposit (groan, more money going out!), and today the stuff arrived in the post, so I took all my certificates proudly to the post office, and now my car looks spankingly lovely with it's nice new tax disk in the windscreen!!!

sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

My poll questions seem to come out of anything that triggers my interest through stuff that is happening in my life, and right now I am fiddling about with contact lenses so I suddenly got interested to see how many of you have spankingly perfect eyesight (!) and for those of you who don't, what kind of thing you use to deal with it.

sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

Everything was clean and spankingly new, the hedges and flowers brilliantly dressed in their greens and reds and yellows.

Rain V. C. Andrews 2001

Everything was clean and spankingly new, the hedges and flowers brilliantly dressed in their greens and reds and yellows.

Rain V. C. Andrews 2001