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an inscrutable face/expression/smile

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A secret report incriminating the company was leaked last week. He refused to say anything on the grounds that he might incriminate himself.

The media still regards women's sport as a sideshow to the main event. Carol won a large soft toy at a sideshow at the fair.

Loss of memory is a natural concomitant of old age.

My inbox was completely swamped with spam within two days. I'm swamped with work

There's not even a modicum of truth in her statement. Anyone with a modicum of common sense could have seen that the plan wouldn't work.

Simon's still kind of iffy about going to Colombia. The milk smells a bit iffy.

septic tank

For some unfathomable reason they built the toilet next to the kitchen.

a heinous crime

You're just a copycat! Whether it is the original attacker or a copycat, he must be caught soon.

It was the noose to which I must pay attention. They put him on the back of a horse and looped a noose around his neck

We have avoided a meltdown of the financial system

It was a building of singular grace and beauty. He showed a singular lack of skill in painting.

It was Oscar Wilde who made the famous quip about life mimicking art

The Prime Minister tried to gerrymander the recent elections in two ways. The districts are so badly gerrymandered that a challenger can't win.

Products have passed the quality check. Check and mate! The police checked the uprising.

a treasonable offence treasonable activities

] If we posit that wage rises cause inflation, it follows that we should try to minimize them. He was positing his past work as modern enough for the future.

She is avid for fame.

corny jokes I couldn't watch the whole movie - it was just too corny.

On investigation, his claim was found to be bogus. She produced some bogus documents to support her application.

He was assassinated by a cabal of aides within his own regime. The next meeting of the cabal could well be its last.

Most European countries have abandoned laws that make vagrancy a crime. The City Council took steps to address problems associated with homelessness and vagrancy. vagrant worker

Vegetarianism is one cause she does not espouse. For myself, I espouse the middle position, whatever that may be.

Torture and summary execution of political prisoners are proscribed by international law.

He was found guilty of dereliction of duty and conduct unbecoming an officer.

There's a clearly established pecking order in this office. He started as a clerk but gradually rose in the pecking order. power structure

In any case the most telling moment had come hours earlier. The national economy seems to have been a more telling issue.

a rumpled suit. No nuns around to tell them not to rumple the bedspread.

white-collar unions. He is a white-collar worker dedicated to his job at the office. worker who works in a salaried, professional office position; this job often requires mental effort which means this worker is often more educated than a blue-collar

A recent ruling will give terrestrial broadcasters a leg up in competing with satellite radio.

The ideal of a perfectly fair society is just make-believe. He lives in a world of make-believe/make-believe world.

a hard-won battle

Could not a decision be made for me by the birds and the flesh of the expiatory victims

All your problems are magnified when you're ill. The cells are first magnified under a microscope.