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The Bastard in me rejoices at what will be an expensive and salutory lesson.
Rambling Rant Dungeekin 2009
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It would be a salutory moment for the Graun if one day it became an independent newspaper - rather than an English-language version of Izvestia, joined at the hip to the Labour Party, and spouting tosh to order.
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We think that this is a very salutory development to the cause that our leaders and my friends who died many years ago stood for, Mitee said.
MOSOP Feels Vindicated by Shell Company's Spill Admission 2011
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The Bastard in me rejoices at what will be an expensive and salutory lesson.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009
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It would be a salutory moment for the Graun if one day it became an independent newspaper - rather than an English-language version of Izvestia, joined at the hip to the Labour Party, and spouting tosh to order.
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This, combined with term limits, would no doubt have a salutory effect on our government. 12-year limits in both houses would be about right, with pay limited to a stipend to cover member's wages lost (to a limit of national average) during the annual 3-month service period plus expenses for housing and travel (to/from Washington 3 times annually).
CNN Poll: Dems becoming less popular but no gains for GOP 2009
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Also it was a salutory reminder for the younger (and not so young!) in service to think when you put them on. on September 29, 2008 at 4: 29 pm | Reply Simon Walsh
The Art Of Noise « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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The despot employs merely a "salutory fear" that supplies "the defects of government"; he must rule by sheer force that excites a constant yet mystified sense of fear in his subjects
Romantic Fear 2008
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Dalgliesh had a momentary and impious picture of his detective sergeant punctiliously attempting to determine and record this essential information about a victim in an official crime report and reflected that Miss Willison's nice distinction between police work and real life was a salutory reminder of how other people saw his job.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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There's nothing like humiliation before one's peers that is salutory.
atz413 commented on the word salutory
This is a common misspelling of the word "salutary."
September 16, 2009
atz413 commented on the word salutory
This is a common misspelling of the word "salutary," which means having a beneficial effect.
September 16, 2009