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Swingeing

adjective
1.
Severe; punishingly bad.  "Swingeing damages awarded by the judge"





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"Swingeing" Quotes from Famous Books



... to deceive a friend. Prulliere would thereupon begin sneering with a wrathful expression. Why, she was growing jolly stupid nowadays! How could she take up with such an ape? For, indeed, Fontan was a regular ape with that great swingeing nose of his. Oh, he had an ugly mug! Besides, the man knocked her ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
... is crowned, And Slop with a wig and a tail is, Let Eady's bright temples be bound With a swingeing "Corona Muralis!"[3] ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... Stowey. Pray give me an order in writing on Longman for "Lyrical Ballads." I have the first volume, and, truth to tell, six shillings is a broad shot. I cram all I can in, to save a multiplying of letters—those pretty comets with swingeing tails. ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas


Words linked to "Swingeing" :   U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, bad, UK, Great Britain


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