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v. - Urge a dog to attack someone adv. - Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).

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Usage examples (18)
  • "No other country in the word sic would toss away this advantage."
  • The subject of sic is the record kept by a keylogger installed on my computer.
  • Like a blog, sic is frequent and chronological – but unlike a blog it is a strictly linear record of non-linear processes.
  • I daur ye, limmers that ye are, to name sic a word at my door-cheek!
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