Roth takes an especial scunner to poor Kentucky, his locus of American evil. |
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The jury obviously took a scunner to the plaintiff and the plaintiff's case. |
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But he does harbour this horrible dread of dentistry which became a real scunner when he suffered a bout of toothache. |
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Against that dark, wavy-haired, bespectacled and pompous little individual, I had taken an instant scunner. |
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Labour's opponents claim they are encountering a door-step scunner factor with the government's choice of election timing, four days before Christmas. |
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The writer thinks its small wonder that he developed a subconscious scunner on philanthropists and their work. |
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They, an' all grims an' signs an' warnin's, be all invented by parsons an' illsome berk-bodies an' railway touters to skeer an' scunner hafflin's, an' to get folks to do somethin' that they don't other incline to. |
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