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resembling a badger

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  • Too bad his son inherited his mother's virtues of pettiness and badger-like meanness.
  • Then he stuffed his mouth full of onion and feta cheese, mechanically wiping his fingers off on the white damask tablecloth, all the while studying Arafat with his shifting,...
  • A couple of large Scotch deer hounds of a badger-like colour accompanied their master.
  • (Personally, we would have leapt into the audience and shredded the questioner with our badger-like claws.)
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