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- noun One who subscribes to
verism .
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Examples
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Lisaks kõikvõimalikele kurikaeltele takistab ausat ja verist politseitööd veel miski suurte volitustega rühm eriagent Peter Keyesi Gary Busey juhtimisel.
Predator 2 (1990) Ulmeguru 2008
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"By the Mass," exclaimed his grace, nettled, "thou art the verist fool in all the council."
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909
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It is the creation of a verist, of a naturalist, founded on a clear and intimate perception of nature.
Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905
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He is, nevertheless, a realist -- a verist, as he prefers to be called.
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
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Funny that this was released prior to the birth of the torture-porn industry of our, you know, enlightened age - a prescient musical vision of the curious verist fascinations that eventually made Hostel as American as Donald Duck.
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