mugging
Example Sentences
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Cut to the same man now mugging for the camera on a plane ride out of the United States.
From Los Angeles Times
After that earlier Warner mugging, I wrote about the “legalized economic vandalism that antitrust has become.”
“It is funny that the heaviest of all awards is given by actors — ’us what we do, it means so much,’” he said, mugging ponderous emotion.
From Los Angeles Times
There’s a little too much mugging, italicizing and elbow-nudging, as if we might not be able to enjoy Sondheim’s unsparing wit on our own.
From Los Angeles Times
Her resignation comes a day after she admitted that she told police she had lost her phone during a mugging on a night out but later found it had not been taken.
From BBC
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