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being essentially equal to something- Her statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt.
- I cannot make your consciousness tantamount to mine.Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
- For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree.Melville, Herman -- Moby Dick I-LXVII
- To have been indifferent to the companionship of the single gentleman would have been tantamount to being gifted with nerves of steel.Dickens, Charles -- The Old Curiosity Shop
- My not returning would simply have been tantamount to my saying to M.James, Henry -- The American
- Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.Mahatma Gandhi
- it was tantamount in him—to a paternal benediction on our union, accompanied with a gush of tears.Dickens, Charles -- Our Mutual Friend
- That would be tantamount to admitting a mistake, and the military doesn't do that either."David Baldacci -- Zero Day
- Is that tantamount, sir, to acceptance, or rejection, or consideration?Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
- He could write the account Charlie wanted, but to do so would be tantamount to admitting to himself that he would never write another novel.Stephen King -- Misery
- Madame de Bellegarde gave a glance at her son which seemed tantamount to an injunction to be silent and leave her to her own devices.Henry James -- The American
- I have taxed my father with it, and obtained from him what I consider tantamount to a denial.George Bernard Shaw -- Mrs. Warren's Profession
- He understood that such an admission, for her, was tantamount to a shouted declaration of devotion from other women.J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
- Not often did Marley have the opportunity to look down at me. and having me prone like that was tantamount to an invitation.John Grogan -- Marley & Me
- That's tantamount to an invitation when he's dead.'Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- In a case like this the recommendation is tantamount to a verdict, but remains secret, as a part of the proceedings of the Praesidium.John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- Which was tantamount to asking: How many boys have entered the square yard beyond the Great Hall and returned as gunslinger apprentices?Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
- Refusing to break Welsh's bones was tantamount to killing his daughter.Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
- This was said in a way that was tantamount to declaring that no daughter of his ever should become the wife of the person in question.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
- It would almost be tantamount to pounding his own son to death.Stephen King -- The Shining
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