Example Sentences
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There is not much inventiveness of language these days either, no Menckenish words like "pecksniffian," no Rabelais around to rail against "slubberdegullion druggies, ninny lobcocks, or scurvy sneaksbies."
From Time Magazine Archive
Somewhere between super popular and well'liked: not brainy, not jocks, not rich, not druggies, not mean, not goody-goody, not huge, not flat.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
