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Examples
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OVERLY cautious, perhaps, but the finger pointing and tongue-wagging every time someone failed the vetting process is huge.
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Then he took a sip from his water bottle and feigned a choke with one of his signature high-pitched, tongue-wagging sound effects.
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But as they had nothing to pin the incident on and as, like herself, Bishop had refused to comment to enquiring hacks, the tongue-wagging died down as quickly as it had flared up.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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With recycled materials such as bits of barns and railroads, Wing began construction of a fortress that looks like it's straight out of the 12th century--but adorned with such whimsies as a fireplace in the middle of a Buddha's belly and tongue-wagging faces protruding from the stone walls.
Great American Castles Jenna Rose Robbins 2010
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With recycled materials such as bits of barns and railroads, Wing began construction of a fortress that looks like it's straight out of the 12th century--but adorned with such whimsies as a fireplace in the middle of a Buddha's belly and tongue-wagging faces protruding from the stone walls.
Great American Castles Jenna Rose Robbins 2010
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With recycled materials such as bits of barns and railroads, Wing began construction of a fortress that looks like it's straight out of the 12th century--but adorned with such whimsies as a fireplace in the middle of a Buddha's belly and tongue-wagging faces protruding from the stone walls.
Great American Castles Jenna Rose Robbins 2010
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Kristen tried smoking, stole a book from school, put up lurid posters of tongue-wagging men in evil makeup in her room.
Beard 2010
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The media, from Nixon to W. has been accustomed to pressuring the White House into reacting to the agenda that is usually set by the Sunday tongue-wagging programs and the daily spinning classes on CNN and Fox.
Brian Ross: The Bobby Jindal Moment: Obama Drags Media Through Unbearable Civility and Reason 2009
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"It's sure to fuel plenty of tongue-wagging by pundits on TV, but, politically charged or not, the air kind of goes out of 28 Weeks Later once this bloodletting starts."
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I don't know what the letter equation means but I understand it has something to do with the law of acceleration and, in turn, why I have unconsciously placed myself this far away from the women: so as not to get swept up in the tongue-wagging turbulence.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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