guy
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A cute little guy, on the other hand?
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
"He signed it to the 'Lovely Anna' which I thought was sweet and he came across like a really nice guy," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
He knew how to hold court and tell a story and he was a funny guy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
I don’t want to be the guy who works until 70 on top of millions because he’s afraid of a future that may never arrive.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
“This guy is too bashful to say anything, but in order for us to play this once-in-a-lifetime gig, we need your help.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Certainly, political and religious leaders, the rich and powerful are mercilessly guyed, but this is surely the mot juste, because the disjunction between these effigies and the people they represent is understood by all.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2015
It's as if they think they have to imitate someone other than themselves, to summon up a pretend, all-purpose actress who can be guyed.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2013
Old folkies will spot the genres being guyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The spindle and hub were attached to a steel barrel frozen into the ice and guyed solidly.
From Time Magazine Archive
The operators guyed him loudly enough for him to hear.
From Inventors by Philip Gengembre Hubert
Waters' hole card is Johnny Depp, the winsome tough from TV's 21 Jump Street, who radiates big- screen grace and swagger as Cry-Baby -- no easy trick, since he is guying his own image.
From Time Magazine Archive
One thinks of Rowlandson as purely English, because of his devotion to the English scene and his delight in guying the manners and affectations of the French.
From Time Magazine Archive
Best shot—the prefects guying Woodley about his love-affair.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cumulative effect of its guying would not nettle even the income tax bureau, for Funnyman Cantor pokes lightly at an array of straw men.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I've sometimes thought since," was his conclusion, "that they were just guying me, knowing they could frighten me out of my wits."
From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith
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