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
"There was nae child wi' me, madam,5 There was nae child wi' me; It was but me in a sair cholic, When I was like to die."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
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