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But the government has been vague about what that nasty name means in policy terms.
Screaming and screeching, they called me just about every evil, nasty name in the book.
To be sure, none of the secondary players are quite as cute as the toothless pit bull with a nasty name that Boone, recognizing a kindred soul, rescues from certain extermination.
But those who knew enough to check the actual monosyllable in question, given in the second edition as "C**t", would have found it defined as "a nasty name for a nasty thing".
In a new ode to Senator Barack Obama, called "Politics," Ludacris, right, calls Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton "irrelevant" and also a nasty name common in hip-hop lyrics but not in the remarks of presidential candidates.
By 1811, that word (written as two letters with asterisks between) was defined in Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue as "The chonnos of the Greek, and the cunnus of the Latin dictionaries; a nasty name for a nasty thing".
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According to legal experts, much of what is said on Twitter is opinion — even nasty name-calling — which means it is protected speech.
The more the party is identified with nasty name-calling, freak-show protestors, immigrant-bashing (the proximate cause of Wilson's outburst at Obama) and, yes, racism, the faster it will commit demographic suicide as America becomes ever younger and more diverse.
Officials are suing one another for bad behavior and calling each other nasty names.
AFTER a decade of nasty names, death threats and 24-hour security, Justice Leslie Crocker Snyder is feeling annoyed.
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