sair
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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That’s a right sair yin, and though I hope the physios can get him going again, I’m not sure.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2022
BST14:49 4 min Lewandowski sashays past Brady in centrefield, so Brady ambles into him, landing a snide sair yin in his ribs.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2015
He was sair sair sullemn and chairmanlooking when he was not making spaces in his psyche, but, laus! when he wore making spaces on his ikey, he ware mouche mothst secred and muravyingly wisechairmanlooking.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Yes, I do forbid ye; for ye will be a sair fule if ye do.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
She looked “bonny and bright—a sicht for sair e’en,” Nannie, her aunt’s maid, said, when she came in.
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
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