cotton-picking

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US and Canadian slang (intensifier qualifying something undesirable)you cotton-picking layabout!

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Words nearby cotton-picking

cotton mill, cottonmouth, cotton on, cotton picker, cottonpickin', cotton-picking, cotton press, cotton sedge, cottonseed, cottonseed cake, cottonseed meal

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How to use cotton-picking in a sentence

A fire that he insists is only picking up pace, according to top-secret intelligence briefings.
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Brazen cherry-picking of the information in this story inspired a flood of “Bush Was Right All Along!”
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The truth is that Judd is really just picking an arbitrary number since there is no script.
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Tom Cotton credits Harvard as the place where he “discovered political philosophy as a way of life.”
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Picking up cans and bags out of the bin and throwing them back, over and over.
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This would in any event have depressed prices of cotton, even under ordinary conditions.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Cotton exchanges reopened on November 16, and stock exchanges opened for restricted trading shortly thereafter.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
She had forced herself to eat most of her soup, and now she was picking the flaky bits of a court bouillon with her fork.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
When in the city they wore a rough felt conical hat and dark blue cotton robe.
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There was no finery in her wardrobe, a few neat cotton gowns for summer wear, and homespun for the winter—that was all.
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