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ventriloquist

[ ven-tril-uh-kwist ]

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noun

The first show there was me, Elayne Boosler, the ventriloquist team of Willie Tyler & Lester and other great comics too.

From Ozy

John Boehner is less the Speaker than a battered ventriloquist for the Tea Party klatch in his caucus.

He becomes a ventriloquist, and gets laughs only when the dummy pees on him.

When the ventriloquist is a voice of experience and not of love, words are no longer material for heartfelt expression.

Yet there are many onlookers who, by a ventriloquist, can be made to believe that the picture speaks.

Frank was a very good amateur ventriloquist, although he seldom practiced the art.

Being a skilled ventriloquist, he was the author of the dismal groans and the mysterious voice that had so alarmed the boys.

She was something of a ventriloquist, which made these accomplishments especially delightful.

The voice drew near like the ventriloquist doing the trick of the man in the cellar.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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