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n. - A careful examiner.

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  • Even that famous scrutiniser of modern masculinity, Tony Soprano, would look at both of them and say, Ah salute.
  • This devoted scrutiniser of public spending then immediately questioned
  • Perhaps a close scrutiniser of countenances might have detected some resemblance -- a family one -- between him and his three companions.
  • He returns again and again to examine with keenness and severity the principles, the methods, the distinctions of the fine arts, and though he is often a sentimentalist and a...
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