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- noun Plural form of
orgy .
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Examples
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South America grew more dystopic, indulged in orgies of pointless bloodletting.
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And as Murray writes, everybody enjoys the college experience as it is provided today - no ego-damaging exams, yes walk-in orgies, Polynesian islands full of coconut trees where responsability or commitment are unheard of.
Charles Murray on Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I almost died laughing at this pathetic fiction but suppose its to be expected - the truth that these destructive beasts ripped them from trains in orgies of vandalism is obviously too politically incorrect to swallow.
Global Voices in English » South Africa: To vuvuzela or not to vuvuzela? 2009
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Not to mention the fact that pretty much every person on his planet is one of his descendants who he at some point shags in orgies that would make Hugh Heffner blush.
MIND MELD: What are the Most Controversial SF/F Novels of the Past & Present? 2008
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They were the ones who would proposition me on the street; they were the ones who shouted dirty words at me; they insulted us and claimed that we had participated in orgies and other things that we had never heard of before.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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They would indulge together in orgies and exterminate whoever fell into their clutches '.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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I bet you guys got fuckin orgies while watching this film.
Kevin's Review: The Dark Knight - The Dark Has Never Been So Bright « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Computing without regular backups is like having unprotected sex in orgies filled with guys like Ron Jeremy: it’s just a matter of time before you get cannonballed in the nuts with some horrible flesh-eating disease.
You’re totally going to lose everything | Johnny B. Truant 2009
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And so Françoise, convinced that we had spent the night in what she used to call orgies, ironically warned the other servants not to ‘wake the Princess.’
The Captive 2003
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Behind Dalip's throne hung a fine lace curtain, the purdah of his mother, the Maharani — it being the custom of quality Indian ladies to seclude themselves, when they ain't belly-dancing at orgies, that is.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
brtom commented on the word orgies
"...and so it's fitten that his funeral orgies sh'd be public." HF 25
December 7, 2006