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  • "Ugandan discussions," which refers to illicit sexual goings-on, was inspired by a "hackette" i.e., a female journalist who was caught embracing one of Uganda leader Milton Obote's ministers in the 1970s.

    News You Shouldn't Use Richard Holledge 2011

  • "Ugandan discussions," which refers to illicit sexual goings-on, was inspired by a "hackette" i.e., a female journalist who was caught embracing one of Uganda leader Milton Obote's ministers in the 1970s.

    Britain's All-Seeing Private Eye Richard Holledge 2011

  • But such intelligence is not for a dim little hackette like Sieghart.

    Why don't they just belt up? Richard 2006

  • What use is a pretty Miss Maitliss if she can only blather on about lazy mummy hackette crap.

    BBC Bans Emily Maitlis Spectator Column 2007

  • My favourite is the fragrant hackette, Maureen Dowd, usually distinguished by some of the silliest comments about the United States.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Richard 2007

  • My basic point was that Romney managed to get elected against a very weak Democrat I mean, Shannon O'Brien, the very model of a State House hackette?

    Mitt Romney on "Meet the Press." Ann Althouse 2007

  • In the New Mexico legislature, a suburban Albuquerque political hackette, Justine Fox-Young (her real name), claimed to have "several" specific cases of vote identity rustling.

    Don't Fire Gonzales 2007

  • It was a ghastly little BBC hackette speaking from Washington who smugly intoned last night that the dreadful "friendly fire" incident, which we reported yesterday, was "a public relations disaster for the US".

    Archive 2007-08-01 Richard 2007

  • It was a ghastly little BBC hackette speaking from Washington who smugly intoned last night that the dreadful "friendly fire" incident, which we reported yesterday, was "a public relations disaster for the US".

    "A public relations disaster for the US" Richard 2007

  • The egregious BBC hackette Martha Kearney – slated as successor to Andrew Marr – was interviewed last night by the increasingly mad Paxo on Newsnight.

    Pig ignorance Richard 2005

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