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Examples
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Buzzie Bavasi's reputation as a tricky-dicky kind of general manager was equal only to his not-so-often-discussed parallel reputation as one of baseball's most paternalistically generous executives in the pre-free agency era.
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[XVIII,2] mentions the reduplication tricky-dicky, applied to President Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
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Whoever coined the term tricky-dicky must have sensed that the combination would hit hard.
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