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8 total sentences available.
"Virginia, a wife shouldn't keep secrets from her husband." "Oh? But you are keeping secrets from me, are you not? Or did you think I didn't know about you and Mary?" "But Virginia!" "No buts! Leave my house this instant and pester Mary with your male chauvinism, you cad!"
Source: tatoeba (8933070)
The Wedding Date also features Amy Adams as Kat's self-centered sister; screen and stage veteran Holland Taylor is their iron-willed mother; and British actor Jeremy Sheffield plays the handsome cad of an ex-boyfriend.
Source: tatoeba (11134557)
I'll wager a Dogic that before TwistyPuzzles.com turns 10 we'll be posting 3D CAD files that we can individually upload to FedExKinkos.com to have fabricated and have the resulting puzzle overnighted to us by 8am the next day.
Source: wiktionary
2017, Sunjoo Bang et al, "Quad-phased data mining modeling for dementia diagnosis" in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 17(Supp1):60, at Abstract>Background. Therefore, there are various researches to improve a dementia diagnosis process in the field of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) technology.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include bounder, adventurer, arriviste, asshole, assholes.
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