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- noun Behaviour characteristic of a
spiv
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Examples
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It's not just its irritating insistence on using a lower case N, though that grates; but its outlandish spivery: rogue doorstop selling, debt collection harrassment, and, most extraordinarily of all, its attempted diddling of 1.8 million customers.
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