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Example sentences for: dictionary
How can you use “dictionary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
(But that's why I'm not at all surprised that the poster calling him or herself "Too Embarrassed I Read This Crap " didn't find "rumpology" in the dictionary.)
Where there is no equivalent the dictionary gives a corresponding English version, sometimes a few variants.
As I suggested above, they should not be paid much heed, being either the result of misconception, ignorance, lack of understanding, just plain bigotry and prejudice, or—surely later on during the dictionary controversy of the 1960s—the mere business of parroting others' Webster -bashing.
One cannot discover the answer by looking up left or right in an ordinary dictionary, of course.
And that is exactly how the Century Dictionary defines it: variant form of heckle to hack; to cut or chop.