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- adjective Alternative spelling of
blue-nosed .
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Examples
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The root of his bluenosed morality was a patently Victorian notion of feminine frailty.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The root of his bluenosed morality was a patently Victorian notion of feminine frailty.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Liberals desperately do not want to be bluenosed or judgmental, yet they are uneasy with a consumerist, individualistic culture that often violates their sense of community, decency, and mutual obligation.
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Indeed, on the very tape at hand one of the women alluded to his powers in starkly obscene language—and she too might well be a candidate for dismissal: even in private Doug was bluenosed with regard to language.
The Houseguest Thomas Berger 2008
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Beyond the very rare minority of critics/essayists who are not only natural talents, but manage to hold to a professional level of standards *without* having to answer to a bluenosed cheque-dangling apparatus, I can't see a bunch of genuine talents lining up to do a lot of hard work for free.
WHITHER BOOKFORUM? TEV 2008
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Liberals desperately do not want to be bluenosed or judgmental, yet they are uneasy with a consumerist, individualistic culture that often violates their sense of community, decency, and mutual obligation.
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And all these bluenosed hypocrites who excoriated Clinton for his lie "I will not be lied to!" about a personal matter and complain that the office lost its moral authority, seem not to be personally exercized about the repeated, endless lies of the Bush administration that landed us in the most unnecessary, intractable foreign policy crisis in the nation's history.
Hullabaloo 2006
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But it's done for yucks and thus, one supposes, inoffensive to all but the bluenosed.
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Aware of the secretary’s bluenosed moral character, the city fathers pulled out all the stops to refashion Las Vegas as a staid, sober Christian community.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Aware of the secretary’s bluenosed moral character, the city fathers pulled out all the stops to refashion Las Vegas as a staid, sober Christian community.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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