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cuffs

noun as in fetters

noun as in handcuffs

noun as in iron

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Example Sentences

For years, Cuomo gave me a hard time every time we crossed paths about whether I had cuffs or pleats.

The entire process of preplanning and printing the hand, brackets, and cuffs takes just over a day.

Bary raps about a life filled with hardships, a life without love and spent “evading the cuffs.”

Then Molly gets the call, which is more how it would be in real life than the version where she snaps the cuffs on at the end.

The last to take the runway was a shimmering gold, high-low gown with two elbow length cuffs, a thick choker, and heeled mules.

There are no chains to my prison, no steel cuffs to gall the limbs, no guards to threaten and cow me.

Locked in his office, he is occupied from morning till evening in the manufacture of shirt-fronts, collars, and cuffs of paper.

She dressed in simple lines and quiet tones, dark blues and black, with only a broad lace collar and cuffs in neat relief.

Harvey glanced rather contemptuously at the lean, attenuated arm that the other displayed, where he had rolled his cuffs back.

I suppose I interrupted Scott at some critical performance, for he came to me with his coat-cuffs turned up and no wristbands on.

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cuffs, such as: bonds, captivity, chains, check, curb, and handcuffs.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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