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The supplicant
noun
One who comes to humbly ask or petition
Exact(48)
The supplicant was Rick Moranis, the actor who played the nerdy neighbor in the film "Ghostbusters".
Lakers ownership is the supplicant in this case.
In one sense, the supplicant impulse is understandable.
Powell describes an orchard with "twenty-six bruised males planted face up / under the supplicant branches.
Never be the supplicant, that was the principle, always make sure it's the other way round.
Once he's finished those works, he informs the supplicant, perhaps he will find time for them.
Similar(12)
We're the supplicants here".
The overlap between the supplicants there and the supplicants to the comptroller is significant.
Some of the supplicants are friends.
But some requests are outsize enough to make the supplicants sound like indulged children begging Santa to lasso the moon.
And the supplicants who come to him are dirty, sometimes bloodied and, you suspect, filled with the potential for violence.
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