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- adjective
superlative form ofhoary : mosthoary .
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Examples
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I say "hoariest" because it is utterly nonsensical and flies in the face of the most basic human nature.
Sadly, No! 2008
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You know you're watching first-rate drama when even the hoariest of clichés come out sounding perfectly right.
What a Knockout of a Series Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011
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Invoking the hoariest of chestnuts; that oldie but goodie; as predictable as mushy green grapes in a fruit salad: The Class War Boogie.
Will Durst: Trickle-Up Economics Will Durst 2011
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Although the finale skirts with the hoariest of climactic cliches, there is nothing particularly wrong with “The Education Of Charlie Banks.”
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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Invoking the hoariest of chestnuts; that oldie but goodie; as predictable as mushy green grapes in a fruit salad: The Class War Boogie.
Will Durst: Trickle-Up Economics Will Durst 2011
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Quibble all you want with certain things — Jack pounding on dead Sayid's chest in that hoariest of TV doc clichés, Sawyer saying goodbye to a dying Juliet, like, six times — but those two hours delivered.
‘Lost’ Season Six Theories Galore From MTV News Staffers » MTV Movies Blog 2010
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• Admittedly, when it comes to sweeps gimmicks, giving your main character temporary blindness ranks among the hoariest.
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The creators don't even seem to be aware that he's a robot and not a human being -- at one point he gets hit on the head and has amnesia, which, apart from being one of the hoariest cliches around, would seem to be an odd thing to happen to a boy made of metal.
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Both start promisingly but degenerate into the hoariest clichés.
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It is, of course, the hoariest and truest of critical clichés that nobody goes home from a good musical whistling the sets.
Wheel This Barrow Out of Town Terry Teachout 2011
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