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Example sentences for: doozy

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But Wilde's protagonists all have dark secrets, and Chiltern's turns out to be a doozy.
Washington enjoys nothing so much as a cat fight between friends, and last week's spat between Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist and the Republican Senate was a doozy.
Uniformly first-rate reviews for this memoir of two brothers, both professors of English, who become obsessed with gambling after their parents' deaths: "superb and horrifying" (Tom De Haven, Entertainment Weekly ); "an exquisitely crafted memoir of their three years in the grips of Mississippi casinos" (Lisa Gubernick, the Wall Street Journal ). Not only is their story surprising, but the ending is a real doozy: They are charged with conspiring to cheat at blackjack, even though they have managed to lose their entire $250,000 inheritance in just three years.