doings
Britishplural noun
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deeds, actions or events
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informal anything of which the name is not known, or euphemistically left unsaid, etc
have you got the doings for starting the car?
Example Sentences
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“Yes, but I’ll have no doings, or few. I shall invent, and you’ll have to decide what is real.”
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Dr. Alfred Lanning viewed the proceedings with faint scorn—his usual reaction to the doings of the vastly better-paid business and sales divisions.
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If the priest, who had for so long been unwilling to condemn the Trementinas’ doings, had taken a stand then surely that would lend courage to the villagers.
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I hadn’t said or implied a word to him about my recent, extracurricular doings, and I was dying to make this final news-break—to scoop him thoroughly—when we were alone.
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But I told Lloyd Charlie thought he was getting too old for doings like this.
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