marplot
Example Sentences
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Humpty is Puss’ childhood frenemy: pal, rival and seemingly inept marplot to our hero’s suave efficiency in a crisis.
From Time ● Oct. 28, 2011
Sporting heiress airs, a cruel gash of lipstick and a series of killer frocks in the 1948 A Date with Judy, Taylor plays snooty Carol, the marplot to Jane Powell's swell-town girl.
From Time ● Apr. 14, 2011
Sporting heiress airs, a cruel gash of lipstick and a series of killer frocks in the 1948 A Date With Judy, Taylor has the role of snooty Carol, the marplot to Jane Powell's swell-town girl.
From Time ● Mar. 23, 2011
As poisonous a moppet as ever twisted a playmate's arm, Mary is a prodigal liar, an incorrigible marplot, the school's petted problem child.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't mean to be a marplot or a burden; I go because I think you'd feel happier than if I was left behind.
From Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Alcott, Louisa May
