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- adjective
superlative form ofplummy : mostplummy .
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Examples
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At some point, I'll find a knife to stick in the notion that the plummiest of vibrating singers and this lot are plummy must be accompanied in Mozart by that lean-mean-string-thing, that silly period-practice-equals-no-vibrato tokenism...
Archive 2007-05-01 Jessica 2007
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At some point, I'll find a knife to stick in the notion that the plummiest of vibrating singers and this lot are plummy must be accompanied in Mozart by that lean-mean-string-thing, that silly period-practice-equals-no-vibrato tokenism...
The Red Shoes - a.k.a. Cosi fan tutte Jessica 2007
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"There is no such thing as society," Augusto Pinochet's close friend, Margaret Thatcher, once intoned in her plummiest la-di-dah accent.
Archive 2006-06-01 2006
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Obediently, I told him in my plummiest of voices, ‘I assure you, Mr Ledbetter will behave himself.’
The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006
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"There is no such thing as society," Augusto Pinochet's close friend, Margaret Thatcher, once intoned in her plummiest la-di-dah accent.
In alta tende 2006
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Just over a year ago, to be a literary agent in the Anglo-American world of books must have seemed like the plummiest, most glamorous job imaginable.
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Just over a year ago, to be a literary agent in the Anglo-American world of books must have seemed like the plummiest, most glamorous job imaginable.
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Imagine John Gielgud at his plummiest reading the dialogue from, say, "The Hangover."
NYT > Home Page 2009
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In those days, here in San Francisco, some may have thought Victor Arimondi had the plummiest job in town.
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Were it not for the fact that we are still using tapes to record onto (I was shocked – when I explained that “Personally, I don’t even use CDs anymore” they were all quite taken aback) the resulting recording could be used as an example of the plummiest British accent for any American film-of-the-week star.
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