flyspeck
Example Sentences
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“Look, I’m not going to flyspeck this,” the president added.
From Washington Post
My hometown, Gibsland, a flyspeck of a place, was and is majority Black.
From Seattle Times
In Sunday’s filing, prosecutors said the bar for overturning a jury verdict should be very high and that judges should reject the “invitation to flyspeck the jury’s verdict in hopes of a better outcome.”
From Seattle Times
But it is not the attorney general’s job to flyspeck every sentencing memorandum.
From Washington Post
“When you have to redo any election, you would hope that everybody involved would flyspeck any of the places where there was potential for error… But we’re all humans.”
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.