In many inner-city neighbourhoods, children emulate gangster culture and profess scorn for those who succeed in school. |
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This is a volume bulging with examples of wasteful use of public money, arousing laughter and scorn in equal measure. |
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The timidity of the boy afraid to fight, a common object of scorn for schoolyard bullies, was recast as a clinical pathology. |
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His passionate advocacy has earned him the love of coma-affected families, and the scorn of the medical profession in equal measure. |
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As much as I valued the path of Eastern spirituality and meditation, I was uncomfortable with its subtle scorn for the physical world. |
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What I hope is the people of Gravesham show their scorn for him by not going to his show. |
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That they are able to pour out their scorn for the West is a rather good demonstration of the freedom of speech they enjoy. |
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Even the junior senator from North Carolina felt obliged to express her scorn for these malefactors of great wealth. |
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Such high-minded scorn for the '90s and the general affluence and calm they represented is an eminently understandable sentiment. |
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In fact, the reason I remember this particular presentation at all is the scorn, contempt, and derision that followed. |
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He reserves most of his scorn for the film-makers of his own generation who, as he sees it, betray their own talent. |
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While the commercial provided exposure, it drew the scorn of genuine punkers. |
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My smart-arsed response to this questioning is often met with absolute scorn. |
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If the right-wingers disdain Lincoln for being too aggressively antislavery, the left-wingers scorn him for not being antislavery enough. |
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But U.S. media coverage matched the bipartisan refusal by leaders in Congress to do anything but scorn the offer. |
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Without being triumphalist or pouring scorn on media forecasts, he admitted the build-up to the game worked out perfectly for him. |
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I really do not want to discourage, or to pour scorn on, Mr Hide's hopes in that regard. |
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In fact, he pours scorn on the idea that any such thing could really exist. |
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She pours scorn on plans to capitalise on the growing movement for father's rights. |
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This was a phrase that Wallis would pour scorn on when he attacked Hobbes' ideas. |
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Doubters and critics have poured scorn on our ambitious plans or urged speed when a more thoughtful approach was deserved and required. |
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Many in the arts industry reacted with horror to such an idea, pouring scorn on the author. |
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The blogger's reaction to this is scornful, I think he wants it to be seen as ironic outrage, but scorn is what its written all over his post. |
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Here Jim is warming up to that state of testiness he can be known for, though I'm unclear who he's directing his scorn at. |
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She is an incredible artist who has endured public derision and scorn for well over a decade. |
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True, Marx mentions a few authors by name, but only to pour heavily Teutonic scorn and contumely upon them. |
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In the meantime, we can only bow to the scorn of the multitude, and await the judgment of posterity. |
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Meiosis, often achieved through a trope of one word, may range from bitter scorn to light derision. |
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Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. |
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The bicycle, despite being heaped with scorn by outraged men, was consistently trumpeted by progressive women as a tool for increased freedoms. |
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All the prejudices, all the exaggerations of both the great parties in the state, moved his scorn. |
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Was it not enough that, like the other insignia, it should be an emblem of scorn and mockery, since that was their aim? |
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He has a sense of humor, clearly liked the crew, swears occasionally, and saves his greatest scorn for organized bluenoses. |
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And at the same time, speaking to black America, he branded Frazier an Uncle Tom, turning him into an object of derision and scorn. |
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The rhyme is scarring, like the mark of a brand, and it encapsulates the scorn that underlay the colonial occupation. |
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His whole career has been based on identifying with the marginal and empathizing with those whom polite society would scorn. |
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It was not my place to scorn myths, when some people thought they were nothing but stories told to children late at night. |
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Buffeted by scorn, hated, reviled, he nurses his own hatred, seeking refuge in the thickets of the Law, because true justice has eluded him. |
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They grew haughty in their scorn, vain of their beauty, proud of their long life. |
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Such suppositions often invite skepticism and scorn, especially among Westerners. |
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Her skin was all pallid, not as the lifeless corpse as many would likely say in jest and scorn. |
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Doctors said they were not regarded as a national resource, and their profession was regarded with suspicion and scorn. |
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It reserved special scorn for the General Mining Law of 1872, which has handed over huge swaths of public land to miners since it was instituted. |
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University students go home in their droves over the holidays, pouring scorn on familiar sights with the snobbery of the citified nouveau riche. |
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Any attempt to strive for a better life is likely to be viewed with scorn and perhaps even presented as dangerous. |
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Bessey encountered a spectrum of incomprehension, scorn, puzzlement and good will. |
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The pretensions and pieties of national leaders merit an outpouring of derision and scorn. |
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Just another scenario where caring for someone close to me gets me nothing by contempt, scorn and hate in return. |
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If we can also apply this kind of contempt and scorn to people who, say, kill police officers, we'll really get somewhere. |
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I flinched as I heard her frosty voice tinged with bitter scorn and contempt. |
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These twentieth century cannibals deserve the greatest scorn and contempt from all workers and humanitarians! |
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Instead of tail-wagging gratitude, I was greeted with a look of utter contempt and scorn. |
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They look upon it as a thing of contempt and scorn people who swear by virtual relationships. |
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You get little respect and sometimes get lots of scorn, but yet you are faithful and eager to please. |
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Hence, Richardson's foreword drew scorn from veteran UFO investigators and science popularizers. |
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In fact, it's apparent that he's an intellectually crippled man who deserves our mercy and compassion rather than our scorn. |
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Instead of simply heaping scorn on paid content ideas, he also looks at ideas that could work including 'freemium' models and apps. |
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We feel we will stutter and stumble and earn the deserved scorn of our listeners. |
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From the Millwall youth team, he overcame an 11-month injury and the scorn of fans who just couldn't see what the gangling teen had to offer. |
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His merciless scorn, his blistering sarcasm, his rapier-like thrusts of irony must have made many an opponent squirm. |
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Her sultry good looks, airy insouciance and withering scorn would have made me her instant slave. |
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The weight of her brother's scorn broke her heart, and she returned to her wine presses. |
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Their stupid opinion is just as valid as the millions of people who laugh this assertion to scorn. |
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George heaped scorn upon what he considered a pseudoscience, and the economists retaliated in kind. |
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But he fails to acknowledge the equally unreasonable scorn heaped on the anti-capitalists' ideas by conventional politicians. |
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Beaten and bruised, he patiently endures the ridicule and scorn heaped upon him. |
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Instead the media and the powers that be heaped scorn and ridicule upon him. |
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From this side of the Channel, one can easily pour scorn on Gallic arrogance. |
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This level of attractiveness seemed to catch the eye of the people who used to pour scorn on video games and those who played them. |
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His composure shifted from weightless glee, to a rougher, maestoso tone of scorn. |
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I would suggest that his flying start to war has availed him nothing but the intensified scorn of the nation. |
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Watch out for scorn, sarcasm, ridicule and contempt and inappropriate humour. |
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Indeed, we aim to show that the somewhat malapert remarks of Derrida on Fukuyama open up onto something that is much more significant than scorn. |
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The more I have come to feel this way the more I've tried not to express scorn for things that do not catch my attention but that obviously mean a great deal to others. |
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He has the dubious distinction of being the first object of scorn for most people after they develop their literary palate beyond the 6th grade level. |
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He told me that they had all laughed the comment to scorn, but that now he had been somewhere with no decent plumbing he had to conclude that it was the simple truth. |
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Why, he asks, does wearing the swastika attract widespread scorn, while no one blinks at the person wearing a hammer and sickle on his baseball cap? |
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It did not seem at all incongruous, either, that these people who watched him by with scorn and longing and utter revilement, these were the people that he would fight for. |
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While Faust and Mephisto partook of wild ribaldry and pleasurably summoned up wicked spirits with their sorcery, Gretchen was suffering scorn, ridicule, and imprisonment. |
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The media itself has been prominent in heaping scorn on economics. |
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This blatant, and rather pathetic, display of part-building earned him scorn from his vertically challenged friends who later accused him of selling-out to heightist society. |
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Terrified lest his secret be made public, and turn him into an object of scorn, he managed to sublimate these fears and transform them into the stuff of comedy. |
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I considered calling in the authorities, but a friend of mine pours scorn on anyone who summons the police for a problem that they could solve themselves. |
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Like it or not, the activists are the suffragettes of the day and, as with the campaigners for women's votes, they attract fear, loathing and scorn in equal measure. |
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They will remember his kindliness, his moodiness, his scorn, his patience, his owlishness, the bulk of his physical presence with its powers of intimidation and tact. |
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The mere utterance of the word liberal is now met by scorn and derision. |
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There on the scaffold she suffered scorn and public admonishment. |
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There exists a grave mistake where people think Westernisation is development and pour scorn on all who try to uphold and espouse our local traditions. |
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More likely it was a case of misplaced scorn for the saccharine melodies that overwhelmed the odes to left-coast burgs Santa Cruz, Big Sur and Hollywood. |
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It's hardly standard practice for a hostile takeover, where it is normal to pour as much scorn and vitriol on the target's management as possible. |
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Fifty years ago this scorn was directed at suburban split-levels. |
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As he read it, the scorn faded from his face, leaving him intent. |
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Whether online or off, the kind of accessible and widely read work that brings an academic public recognition is likely to draw the scorn and suspicion of his colleagues. |
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The reaction to her selection in much of the GOP establishment ranged from stupefaction to scorn. |
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But they express scorn for the extreme Darwinians, those who treat Darwinism as a religion, or try to interpret human social life by genes or natural selection. |
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Her political rivals have poured scorn on her ideas for improving the tax system. |
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He reserves special scorn for academic leaders who have debased the academy by pretending that fields like hospitality and gaming studies have a place at university. |
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Nutrition nannies scorn hot dogs, but there are plenty of happy eaters who adore them. |
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How agenda-driven reporting turned a beekeeping Florida mother of four into an object of right-wing scorn. |
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Ricky Gervais, the sultan of scorn, uttered that cheeky bit while emceeing the Golden Globes ceremony a few years back. |
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Neocons scorn Wilson and revere Theodore Roosevelt, who believed, at least for part of his career, in unfettered American power. |
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Then read the mountains of judgment, scorn, bragging, critiquing, and defensiveness that each debate seems to produce. |
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Most Britons greeted this fraud with the scorn and contempt it deserves. |
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There has always been a school of Kremlinologists who scorn such evidence. |
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Hanauer has been making the same case for years, drawing heaps of both praise and scorn. |
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Heap praise, not scorn, on physicians who are brave and caring enough to recommend cannabis when appropriate. |
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The King in Yellow might scorn it, but it shall be worn by his royal servant. |
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It is neither smart nor attractive for liberals, the self-professed champions of the little people, to scorn the vast majority of their fellow citizens as mindless yahoos. |
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His book is filled with the sort of music-worship that professional musicians tend to scorn as overearnest and foolish. |
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The stunt earned her the scorn of her censorious older sister. |
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He acknowledged the appeal of Roethlisberger's small-town-kid-makes-good story, but had nothing but scorn for the Johnny-come-latelies. |
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The United boss would certainly be better off psychoanalysing Berbatov rather than pouring scorn on referees. |
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After checking with Mao, Zhou treated our effort with scorn and derision. |
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If the scorn of your bright eyne Have power to raise such love in mine, Alack, in me what strange effect Would they work in mild aspect? |
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Pearl, in utter scorn of her mother's attempt to quiet her, gave an eldritch scream, and then became silent. |
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The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn. |
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The state's widespread redistribution of water also invites the frequent scorn of environmentalists. |
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Ecgfrith's force decimated the local population and destroyed many churches, actions which are treated with scorn by Bede. |
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Joseph Bonaparte was seen as a puppet monarch and was regarded with scorn by the Spanish. |
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Heinrich Heine must have had the same experience when he tried, with his cultivated scorn and gifted melancholy, to find the people of Hamburg. |
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. |
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Editors and media moghuls started pouring scorn on the people we used to call activists. |
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The object of scorn in the films are not transpersons, but the bigoted transphobes who are made to look like fools. |
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And why do you and all men regard or reward a loving thankful, obedient child, more than one that will scorn you and spit in your face? |
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Conveniently, his list of endorsees didn't include any of the Senate Republicans who have attracted scorn from various splinter groups within the party. |
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Our suggestion was rejected, I think I can fairly say, almost with scorn. However, we still remain fixedly of the opinion that it is an extremely reasonable suggestion. |
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What does she say about Perez's vision of a gayless utopia? The one-line chapter pitting gays with the abject mother of macho dismissal and scorn? |
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Kipling had scorn for those men who shirked duty in the First World War. |
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This was another coup for Fleischmann, who had to overcome Bernstein's scorn for the inadequate rehearsal facilities endured by London orchestras. |
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His treasonous actions earned Benedict Arnold eternal scorn. |
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They turned and ran dogward while I, motivated by their scorn, moved off lethargically through the vines, thorns, and creepers, a caricature of lethal determination. |
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