snakebit
Example Sentences
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Ms. Noonan asserts that another military action against a Mideast country is “snakebit.”
Mattie and Rooster are joined in the hunt by LaBoeuf, a handsome Texas Ranger in search of bounty, and, by the end of the chase, Mattie’s pony has died underneath her, she herself is snakebit, and the reader is very likely in tears.
They also will depress oil prices as sanctions disappear and production in those snakebit economies recovers.
Embarrassingly, AT&T would later unwind its own snakebit Warner acquisition, undermined by the long delay and management’s own miscalculations.
“I think that was a storyline throughout the summer. Certainly we were snakebit tonight,” Schmetzer said.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
