Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blacklegs
Noun
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Sleek sneakers, like the Adidas Taekwondo Slip-on, are easy to walk in and style, pairing with trousers, dresses, or denim.—
Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
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The sneakers come in 21 colors — but users can score them for 20 percent off in specific shades, including white and cielo blue, carnation and starlight glow, and droplet and druzy.—
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In a time when unemployment is on the rise and the rich are running amok and wreaking havoc on the poor — and the social services in place to support them — who doesn’t love the idea of rogue rascals sticking it to a bougie institution by running off with its crown jewels?—
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The former child actors have grown up since their go-kart derby days on-screen — some have even welcomed their own little rascals off-screen.—
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City slickers will definitely get a bang for their buck with this place, which is a lot more spacious than a shoebox on the Upper East Side.—
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During the Waleses' trip to Canada in October 1991, Diana made time between touring an AIDS hospice and a women's shelter to join William, 9, and Harry, 7, on a visit to Niagara Falls, where the trio donned rain slickers for a wet and wild voyage on the Maid of the Mist.—
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According to Canales, the decision to not use Young on QB sneaks is about physics.—
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Rocky sneaks after her, sprinting through Manhattan streets and even swimming across a river — all in red silk pajamas — to reach her and propose in a romantically cinematic gesture.—
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Old Eight Eighty—I Among all the rogues in history, no class has been more persistent than counterfeiters, and only thieves have been more numerous.—
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Among the colorful cast of rogues, villains, queens and clergymen, Andre The Giant stands out as the young suitor’s kind-hearted but stupid brute.—
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Good afternoon and welcome to Con Con, the convention for swindlers, mountebanks, and the people who love them.—
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First up was Ben Shapiro, who described Tucker Carlson and others as grifters and charlatans, guilty of misleading their audiences with falsehoods and conspiracy theories.—
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That mystical encounter with the fox was only the beginning.—
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The virus has also proved fatal to foxes and skunks in Kansas that likely ate something infected, Hesting said.—
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“Blacklegs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blacklegs. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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