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  • "The obnoxious kind," I say, and he laughs.†   (source)
  • I-r0k fancied himself an elite gunter, but he was nothing but an obnoxious poseur.†   (source)
  • Vernet stared at the agent and forced an obnoxious laugh.†   (source)
  • A car alarm on the mainland, or some obnoxious kid fooling around with an air horn.†   (source)
  • I wanted to be with my mom in our little apartment on the Upper East Side, even if I had to go to public school and put up with my obnoxious stepfather and his stupid poker parties.†   (source)
  • He is mediocre to the last degree, though as obnoxious and self-satisfied as was his father before him.†   (source)
  • For six months, Dodgson had patiently cultivated this man, who had grown more obnoxious and arrogant with each meeting.†   (source)
  • "Just one more obnoxious bit of behavior from you," the father whispers harshly, "and you will be grounded—for the rest of the day."†   (source)
  • I look at my canoe feet and my wet, obnoxious anklebones.†   (source)
  • The Fair Gwen goes, "I suppose this means you're going to be an obnoxious teenager."†   (source)
  • She was, in all her obnoxious finery, dragging the light back in.†   (source)
  • I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability—cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.†   (source)
  • It is impossible to imagine Ratwatte not making his case to Kennedy ATC, not because he is obnoxious or pushy or has an enormous ego, but because he sees the world differently.†   (source)
  • "The man is obnoxious," my mom said every time after he left.†   (source)
  • Feel so frustration in making me obnoxious within me, Asking for a (speedly trial) to Let me know what lays ahead in the future, I feel as thod I sure be castigate or chastise for the wronge I've did, So I'm ready to get it over now with it.†   (source)
  • He's an obnoxious, two-faced, lying, sniveling little goof who has an awfully high opinion of himself.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, right," shouted an obnoxious boy whose hair was gelled and combed stiff like a Dragon Ball Z character—"some kind of world it would be if everybody just dropped out and moped around in the woods —"†   (source)
  • I clap, too, until I realize I'm the on-camera talent and maybe it's obnoxious that I'm applauding for myself, but no one's paying attention.†   (source)
  • And your father--obnoxious man—extraordinarily obnoxious.†   (source)
  • My childhood was privileged but not obnoxiously so.†   (source)
  • I didn't mind when Quentin showed off his vocabulary, but I suspected the other boys thought he was just being obnoxious, which, of course, he was.†   (source)
  • He is eager without being obnoxiously chipper, he clasps his hands behind his back, rocks forward slightly on the balls of his feet, raises his eyebrows expectantly over his half-glasses.†   (source)
  • This was so obnoxious of you, Lindy.†   (source)
  • I remember a conversation I had with one student whom others found particularly obnoxious.†   (source)
  • He doesn't show quite as much interest in Caroline as I expected, but as an obnoxiously proud dad, I feel that way about everybody.†   (source)
  • By this point the rest of the pack was leaning in to hear them, ready to back up Bat if he decided to knock this obnoxious brat into the middle of next week.†   (source)
  • Across the deck on the other ramp, someone let out an obnoxious snort.†   (source)
  • I hope he snaps your neck, you pushy, obnoxious, moronic DOG!†   (source)
  • What had been cute when he was a cuddly puppy had turned obnoxious, even terrifying for some recipients of his uninvited advances.†   (source)
  • White had brought along a roll of cash, which he had soon distributed among beggars, not an obnoxious act in Farmer's philosophy but hardly a sufficient one.†   (source)
  • Mammal's manner was as obnoxious and condescending as ever, but he nevertheless seemed to assume that I was thrilled with his presence.†   (source)
  • Some came to flirt, obnoxious in their efforts to make their spouses jealous, or disregard them altogether, desperate to recapture escaped dreams and wasted years of youth.†   (source)
  • In some parts of the world, these monkeys are called kras, because of the sound they make, and many people who live in Asian rain forests consider them to be obnoxious pests.†   (source)
  • How obnoxious for him to go on and on like that while beside him stood his little granddaughter, wide-eyed and sad at all the things her baby brother, no bigger than one of her dolls, was going to be able to do just because he was a boy.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in the middle of the chapter and the obnoxious coughing I started to smell something.†   (source)
  • The seat cushions were done up in an obnoxiously bright purple, but they, like the small TV hanging on the wall across from them, were coated with dust and dirt.†   (source)
  • We weren't even halfway to the keg when Greg Nichols, an obnoxious junior, made a beeline for us.†   (source)
  • Esperanza and Estevan were dressed about as American as you could get without looking plain obnoxious: he had on jeans and an alligator shirt donated from some church on the east side where people gave away stuff that was entirely a cut above New To You.†   (source)
  • Amy was the tiniest and the most obnoxious of the new crop of Eminemlettes, and she was smitten with Little Janet, who despite her two-year tenure in prison seemed to have no idea how to handle a middle-school crush.†   (source)
  • Washington decided that Ivan was getting a little too obnoxious on this side of the ocean.†   (source)
  • They're always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, and they'll bite your hand first chance they get.†   (source)
  • I was on a flight once with a pilot who was amazed at our behavior in comparison with the loud, obnoxious, gun-waving attitude of Marcinko's SEALs.†   (source)
  • Other than being vain, obnoxious, and subject to romantic delusions, she's all right.†   (source)
  • She could poison my food if I got too obnoxious.†   (source)
  • This, from a contemporary critic's commentary on Madame Butterfly: "Pinkerton suffers from …. being an obnoxious bounder whom every man in the audience itches to kick."†   (source)
  • My house is all the way down at the end of the street, so nobody can really see in, but Drew is being obnoxiously loud right now and we don't need an audience.†   (source)
  • When he drank, he was neither loud nor obnoxious, but his normal expression—eyes half-closed, mouth slack—gave him the appearance of someone who was far drunker than he usually was.†   (source)
  • He looked as arrogant and obnoxious as ever.†   (source)
  • 'What's so exciting about it?' ex-P. F.C. Wintergreen sneered obnoxiously, resting his filthy GI shoe on his spade and lounging back in a surly slouch against the wall of one of the deep, square holes it was his military specialty to dig.†   (source)
  • Near the back wall, a few boisterous and obnoxious kids grow quiet, flipping through the glossy applications book.†   (source)
  • It was the only obnoxious thing about Otis staying with them.†   (source)
  • God, you're so obnoxious.†   (source)
  • Velu was obnoxious at your age.†   (source)
  • It was an obnoxious habit most trial lawyers were afflicted with, and Ian had suffered through the routine before.†   (source)
  • For Mavis, she would have tolerated an evening at a loud, crowded, obnoxious club, peeling randy pilots and sex-starved sky station techs off her chest.†   (source)
  • Georgia fans, obnoxious in the first place, were unbearable for a long, long time because of Herschel.†   (source)
  • The woman may have had a few too many drinks, but her intoxication was not obnoxious.†   (source)
  • Reason second: I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular.†   (source)
  • Later, when he was calm, he might admire the way she'd dealt with an obnoxious drunk, but now he couldn't see beyond her carelessness.†   (source)
  • Donny Kellen and his brothers were their usual obnoxious selves, steering their sleds into the girls, trying to knock them to the ground, where they would wash their faces with snow if they got the chance.†   (source)
  • She just smiles then (an obnoxious sort of smile which makes me feel even more uneasy than when she was actually talking) and she says, "I'm sure you'll make much better choices than I did, Caitlin.†   (source)
  • "Adrienne," he repeated, doing that obnoxious thing with his hands that meant a girl had a good body.†   (source)
  • There is nothing to stop the desire to sacrifice the weaker party or obnoxious individual.†   (source)
  • Kyle and Mike came in, and after saying wonderful, flattering things to me that made me feel coy and blushing, Mike started teasing me and Lew and pretending that we were the obnoxious little brats he used to have to tend.†   (source)
  • His hands went to his nose, and he began his obnoxious habit of squeezing his nostrils together with his thumb and index finger.†   (source)
  • The DJ. was singing along with Joan Baez, in an obnoxious off-key way.†   (source)
  • If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.†   (source)
  • Pierce, because of his neutral manners when in the presence of ill will, had nothing to tell Arrabal; he played the rich, obnoxious gringo so perfectly that Oedipa had seen gooseflesh come up along the anarchist's forearms, due to no Pacific sea breeze.†   (source)
  • I can do a year standing on my head, and they might even let me go sooner, if I'm obnoxious enough.†   (source)
  • NOBODY except me realizes how completely obnoxious she is.   (source)
    obnoxious = very rude or unpleasant
  • Then too there was T.J., who, although not really my problem, was so obnoxiously flaunting Stacey's wool coat during these cold days that I had just about decided to deflate him at the same time I took care of Lillian Jean.   (source)
    obnoxiously = in a rude or unpleasant manner
  • It's so obnoxious.   (source)
    obnoxious = very rude or unpleasant
  • Obnoxiously enough, Celeste was the epitome of gracefulness.†   (source)
  • "And what difference does that make?" asked Filch obnoxiously.†   (source)
  • I turned and saw Todd13, an obnoxious avatar I recognized from my Algebra II class.†   (source)
  • She gave another obnoxious giggle and kissed him once more.†   (source)
  • Quentin could still be obnoxious when he wanted to be.†   (source)
  • Peter van Daan wasn't ever as obnoxious about this subject as the boys at school.†   (source)
  • Alpert is not, it should be said, an obnoxious know-it-all.†   (source)
  • Before the giggling and obnoxious comments got too loud, she pushed the button again.†   (source)
  • Even for Alec, who was prone to the occasional fit of inexplicable sullenness, this was obnoxious.†   (source)
  • In the distance, the obnoxious wail of an ambulance siren was drawing closer.†   (source)
  • He had an overconfident air about him, but it wasn't too obnoxious.†   (source)
  • He stood unobtrusively behind the newel post now, trying not to be obnoxious about it.†   (source)
  • Who knew babies could be so obnoxious, wanting to eat at all hours, that is?†   (source)
  • Admittedly, you were being obnoxious to Simon.†   (source)
  • I choose obnoxious jerks who have too much already.†   (source)
  • They're three of the good ones, and they're still obnoxious as all get-out.†   (source)
  • About the time I turn toward the cupboards, I notice the obnoxious repetitive noise.†   (source)
  • I knew immediately how obnoxious it made me sound.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was just his obnoxious tone, but I decided not to let it drop.†   (source)
  • The obnoxious D.J. was a welcome relief after Mrs. Poole finally finished.†   (source)
  • I can see why the Seeker was so obnoxious.†   (source)
  • "If a demon grabbed me every time I was obnoxious to Simon, I'd have died the day you met me."†   (source)
  • Chelsea Whitaker is quite possibly the most obnoxious person on the planet.†   (source)
  • The song ended and an obnoxious commercial for a used-car dealer came on.†   (source)
  • "You are so spoiled, and you are so obnoxious …. but I'm here."†   (source)
  • The usual obnoxious venti trying to destroy the ship.†   (source)
  • But kids can be obnoxious and a nanny should keep them in line.†   (source)
  • And as far as obnoxious jerks went, I figured I couldn't do better than Uncle Randolph.†   (source)
  • Fox didn't seem to mind at all, laughing and joking without being obnoxious.†   (source)
  • These leave plenty to the imagination, a defense against Kevin's obnoxious stares.†   (source)
  • He shut up and so did I. Had Jocko been obnoxious to Star?†   (source)
  • "Hello," said I, Rising and putting a most obnoxious twang to my voice.†   (source)
  • I think the lady finds you offensive and obnoxious.†   (source)
  • But even so, the three children were eager to leave the Anxious Clown, and not just because the garish restaurant—the word "garish" here means "filled with balloons, neon lights, and obnoxious waiters"—was filled with balloons, neon lights, and obnoxious waiters.†   (source)
  • I wanted to pulverize them, but I was under strict orders from Chiron never to take my anger out on regular mortals, no matter how obnoxious they were.†   (source)
  • He is cocky and he can be obnoxious and he's always late, true, but there are other good and surprising things about him too.†   (source)
  • "He's my brave little champion!" Lonna crowed obnoxiously.
    With a phony squeal of affection, she charged toward the wall of humanity that encircled her son.†   (source)
  • Da5id has even enhanced the physics of The Black Sun to make it a little cartoonish, so that particularly obnoxious people can be hit over the head with giant mallets or crushed under plummeting safes before they are ejected.†   (source)
  • Absolutely obnoxious.†   (source)
  • An obnoxious, arrogant attitude?†   (source)
  • He's obnoxious.†   (source)
  • Lex was heartbroken to be separated from her father, and in the last few weeks she had become so obnoxious that"Was it 5027?"†   (source)
  • He's an obnoxious boy who lies around on his bed all day, only rousing himself to do a little carpentry work before returning to his nap.†   (source)
  • That struck me as odd, and I often wondered why people were so mysterious or obnoxious when they talked about this subject.†   (source)
  • Peter says the grown-ups are just jealous because we're young and that we shouldn't take their obnoxious comments to heart.†   (source)
  • As you know, Jeb, the only puzzle piece not fitting in, the only fly in the ointment, the only loose end not tied up is your obnoxious, uncontrollable, pathetic, useless, flying failures.†   (source)
  • But it does not, ever, entitle you to be rude, selfish, uncaring, and generally obnoxious to me or Haven or anyone else.†   (source)
  • Home? she questioned, throwing cheerless images at me: the vacant apartment in San Diego, the Seeker's most obnoxious expression, the dot that marked Tucson on the map… a brief, happier flash of the red canyon that slipped in by accident.†   (source)
  • Not only was it loud and obnoxious, but also, for no reason Nico understood, it occasionally blurted out random Darth Vader lines from Star Wars or yelled, "THE COW GOES MOO!"†   (source)
  • No matter how romantic he thought this was, all I could think of were the thirty-five loud, obnoxious, weird-smelling boys who were about to invade my home.†   (source)
  • He looked about imploringly for help in defending his country's future against the obnoxious calumnies of this sly and sinful assailant.†   (source)
  • As I made the perfect piles, my mind cleared, my body relaxed, and my irritation from the night of loud music and obnoxious, rich, sex-obsessed pigs ebbed.†   (source)
  • She makes a big deal of asking them what they want, of getting them to recite for the company, and trying to get sullen little Fifi to smile for the obnoxious fat man.†   (source)
  • If it is dependent on the people, that dependence will restrain schemes obnoxious to their constituents.†   (source)
  • Since there will be testimony that Miss Christian had contact with Mr. Tester at the club, that she leaned over and served him drinks, and that he deliberately and obnoxiously rubbed himself against her, it's not only possible but probable that the hairs were transferred from Miss Christian to Reverend Tester at the club.†   (source)
  • If he was thought"obnoxious," it would have been only by a few, and only he himself is known to have used the word.†   (source)
  • I'd known him back when he could see, helped him learn how to fly-He was less obnoxious than Fang, quieter than Nudge, and a better cook than any of us.†   (source)
  • So a girl can tell the most obnoxious lies and the guys will believe them every time — "This is my first time" — "That's the biggest I've ever seen" — or both, which, if you really think about it, is not possible in a single lifetime.†   (source)
  • As Expected It's a less than pleasant experience, starting with the obnoxious breath coming out of his open mouth.†   (source)
  • Getting my driver's license when Grandma left me her obnoxious (but mint) '75 LTD. 4) Jake, sharing his Internet research on fetal development.†   (source)
  • He didn't need just one more daughter, especially not one as obnoxious as I. And so, with nothing at all to lose, and not much to gain but revenge, I began to form my plan.†   (source)
  • He had no idea his frivolous, obnoxious, even sophomoric objection to Buckley's entry would prove to be so useful.†   (source)
  • The truth was that Bridge didn't even think about the cat ears anymore, unless a little kid pointed at her on the street or some jerk said something obnoxious.†   (source)
  • Obnoxious.†   (source)
  • Then, just as agreement seemed near, Henry Strachey proposed to amend the line specifying the American "right" of fishing to read "liberty" of fishing, to which young Fitzherbert declared the word "right" to be "an obnoxious expression."†   (source)
  • I reminded myself of my mother when she did not give in to those obnoxious peck peck pecks my father gave her.†   (source)
  • She was the one who licked the poison berry juice off her fingers, the one who dared you to steal nail polish, the one who was obnoxious to the lady in the makeup store who told you no more free samples.†   (source)
  • His prison sentence was lifted as of this afternoon, and he wasn't about to have it ruined by a close encounter of the obnoxious kind.†   (source)
  • Another rule forbade him to take worthless cases that would pay little or nothing and turn his obnoxious clients into people he could choke.†   (source)
  • But now …. you're just obnoxious."†   (source)
  • Kile wasn't as obnoxious as Josie, but, in all the years I'd known him, he'd never made anything remotely close to an interesting conversation.†   (source)
  • His bloodthirst had grown to obnoxious levels, and lately, just the scent of blood and adrenaline coursing through a group of humans' veins was enough to bring his fangs out and set his stomach rumbling.†   (source)
  • TWO DAYS LATER I WAS standing on the tarmac next to my giddy brother, who was holding an obnoxiously large bouquet in his hands.†   (source)
  • In time, though, his obnoxiousness would return, often even stronger than before.†   (source)
  • His lower jaw protrudes obnoxiously, reminding one of a jungle beast.†   (source)
  • Though I don't know who could be more obnoxious to you than myself, at the moment.†   (source)
  • According to his principles, Ellsworth M. Toohey listed no architect by name in the text of his book—"the myth-building, hero-worshipping method of historical research has always been obnoxious to me."†   (source)
  • Louis the Eleventh, another of the fictional kings, had kept obnoxious bishops in rather expensive cages.†   (source)
  • Hitherto people had merely grumbled at a stupid, rather obnoxious visitation; they now realized that this strange phenomenon, whose scope could not be measured and whose origins escaped detection, had something vaguely menacing about it.†   (source)
  • This Court has already heard of the obnoxious sexual perversions practiced by these boys in darkened theatres.†   (source)
  • He sat in a tapestry armchair of his drawing room, half lying, legs and stomach forward, like an obnoxious child flaunting his bad posture.†   (source)
  • —you'd allow someone more obnoxious than myself to barge in on you, just to talk about that subject.†   (source)
  • He must be a lone wolf or he must herd among men obnoxious to him.†   (source)
  • I know that's an obnoxious remark, but you advised me to start right.†   (source)
  • Meaningless at first, it gradually became menacing, obnoxious, portentous with evil.†   (source)
  • What's your name now, — P?' said my aunt, as a compromise for the obnoxious appellation.†   (source)
  • We swept on, and I felt that I was highly obnoxious to Camilla.†   (source)
  • 'I do not understand that,' observed the obnoxious personage referred to with tranquillity.†   (source)
  • "I thought it was madness," he said, as he replaced the obnoxious paper in the safe, "and now I begin to fear it is disgrace."†   (source)
  • Victor thought there would be more logic in thus disposing of old people with an established claim for making themselves universally obnoxious.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he showed not the least sign that he had any idea such information might be startlingly obnoxious to his fiancee.†   (source)
  • I find it really quite obnoxious—and I don't think I need to disguise the fact from you, since you've accused me of insulting you.†   (source)
  • "I would name no unnecessary names, Mr. Balfour," said he; "above all of Highlanders, many of whom are obnoxious to the law."†   (source)
  • It is true that Marmaduke, by thus purchasing estates that had been wrested by violence from others, rendered himself obnoxious to the censures of that Sect which, at the same time that it discards its children from a full participation in the family union, seems ever unwilling to abandon them entirely to the world.†   (source)
  • He was a man of twenty-five or twenty-six years of age, of unprepossessing countenance, obsequious to his superiors, insolent to his subordinates; and this, in addition to his position as responsible agent on board, which is always obnoxious to the sailors, made him as much disliked by the crew as Edmond Dantes was beloved by them.†   (source)
  • Turning from Bessie (though her presence was far less obnoxious to me than that of Abbot, for instance, would have been), I scrutinised the face of the gentleman: I knew him; it was Mr. Lloyd, an apothecary, sometimes called in by Mrs. Reed when the servants were ailing: for herself and the children she employed a physician.†   (source)
  • Therefore when the President said (else had his own head quivered on his shoulders), that the good physician of the Republic would deserve better still of the Republic by rooting out an obnoxious family of Aristocrats, and would doubtless feel a sacred glow and joy in making his daughter a widow and her child an orphan, there was wild excitement, patriotic fervour, not a touch of human sympathy.†   (source)
  • With Deerslayer, however, these glances were rendered less obnoxious to so unpleasant a construction; for she seldom looked at him without discovering much of the sincerity and nature that accompany the purest emotions of woman.†   (source)
  • Consequently the security of society is not preserved, for, although the obnoxious member is mechanically cut off and sent far away out of sight, another criminal always comes to take his place at once, and often two of them.†   (source)
  • Legree had told them, at first, that he had bought him for a general overseer, in his absence; and this had begun an ill will, on their part, which had increased, in their debased and servile natures, as they saw him becoming obnoxious to their master's displeasure.†   (source)
  • But they were not in a situation to suffer their thoughts to dwell on the charms of natural objects; and, as the scout had not found it necessary to cease his culinary labors while he spoke, unless to point out, with a broken fork, the direction of some particularly obnoxious point in the rebellious stream, they now suffered their attention to be drawn to the necessary though more vulgar consideration of their supper.†   (source)
  • Had it been a sunny and cheerful day, they could hardly have gone through the streets without making themselves obnoxious to remark.†   (source)
  • But my feelings as a wife and mother require relief; and as I do not wish to consult my family (already obnoxious to the feelings of Mr. Micawber), I know no one of whom I can better ask advice than my friend and former lodger.†   (source)
  • "A Custum 'Us officer knows what to do with his Buttons," said the Jack, repeating the obnoxious word with the greatest contempt, "when they comes betwixt him and his own light.†   (source)
  • These were vile discoveries; but except for the treachery of concealment, I should have made them no subject of reproach to my wife, even when I found her nature wholly alien to mine, her tastes obnoxious to me, her cast of mind common, low, narrow, and singularly incapable of being led to anything higher, expanded to anything larger — when I found that I could not pass a single evening, nor even a single hour of the day with her in comfort; that kindly conversation could not be…†   (source)
  • The arrival of the body for interment (in an empty black box with the lid tumbling open), was the signal for a general joy, which was much enhanced by the discovery, among the bearers, of an individual obnoxious to identification.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 29 I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN I mentioned to Mr. Spenlow in the morning, that I wanted leave of absence for a short time; and as I was not in the receipt of any salary, and consequently was not obnoxious to the implacable Jorkins, there was no difficulty about it.†   (source)
  • So all subsided, except one man who still railed on alone— Thersit&s, a blabbing soldier, who had an impudent way with officers, . thinking himself amusing to the troops— the most obnoxious rogue who went to Troy.†   (source)
  • I then thought of going to New York, as the nearest place where there was a printer; and I was rather inclin'd to leave Boston when I reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party, and, from the arbitrary proceedings of the Assembly in my brother's case, it was likely I might, if I stay'd, soon bring myself into scrapes; and farther, that my indiscrete disputations about religion began to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an infidel…†   (source)
  • The apparent impossibility of sustaining unobnoxious behavior for even part of the day weighs heavily on the lad, and overwhelms him with a claustrophobia as impenetrable as the claustrophobia of church itself.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unobnoxious means not and reverses the meaning of obnoxious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • …the inviolable Saints, In cubick phalanx firm, advanced entire, Invulnerable, impenetrably armed; Such high advantages their innocence Gave them above their foes; not to have sinned, Not to have disobeyed; in fight they stood Unwearied, unobnoxious to be pained By wound, though from their place by violence moved, Now Night her course began, and, over Heaven Inducing darkness, grateful truce imposed, And silence on the odious din of war: Under her cloudy covert both retired, Victor…†   (source)
  • I wanted to end with a bang, so I added, "Caffeine just makes me more obnoxious."†   (source)
  • Greg, we are all making a note of your playful bantering friendship with this loud obnoxious person.†   (source)
  • After Jamie's obnoxious remarks, I had resolved to keep my mouth firmly shut through the whole ordeal.†   (source)
  • "Greg, who says you're obnoxious?"†   (source)
  • But sort of in a nervous scared way, which made it even more obnoxious than just lighthearted giggling.†   (source)
  • The English Jews have no such idiotic fear of the plain name as that which afflicts the more pushing and obnoxious of the race in America.†   (source)
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