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Her soaring film career has by now supplied Brown with such an array of other fictional gifts and odd abilities that mislaying her telekinetic powers doesn’t seem quite so bad.

What counts is the manner of slaughter, and—this being the most courteous of films—the vital importance of never mislaying one’s cool.

He has matured from the young man who once kicked a ballboy in frustration, or lost his place having returned late from Belgium after mislaying his passport.

You suspected certain of the royal party might have harboured thoughts of mislaying the key.

Compared to losing your keys, mislaying a granite cast of Lenin’s head that is over 1.7 metres in height may make you feel better about your forgetfulness.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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