so-and-sos
- plural of so-and-so.
Example Sentences
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Hoover’s men are smug, citified so-and-sos in trim suits who set great store by fancy crime-fighting techniques like fingerprint analysis, wiretaps, two-way radios and aerial surveillance.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
Around New York City, it seemed, there was a tiny enclave of impassioned, well-fed so-and-sos who had all gone mad for this will-o’-the-wisp of a savory.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2011
If you're going to indict this long line of greedy so-and-sos for causing financial crashes, you also have to credit them with all the intervening periods of prosperity.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 20, 2010
They say the image of public servants in parts of the media as "lazy, idle so-and-sos, on massive wages" is unfair.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2010
Though, by the so-and-sos of Ursula's eleven thousand traveling companions, there was a time wherein I would not have brooked such criticism.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch
