Thesaurus / boner
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Mr. Boner shoved two sheets of yellow paper across the desk toward him.
STUBBLEGEORGE LOOMS
Joe realized that Mr. Boner was speaking to him—was speaking with great feeling.
STUBBLEGEORGE LOOMS
June and inventory and Mr. Boner seemed to him to be cut from the same piece.
STUBBLEGEORGE LOOMS
Suddenly Mr. Boner turned to the inner corner of the desk, started to speak, strangled, and with difficulty recovered himself.
STUBBLEGEORGE LOOMS
He heard his name called, and turning, saw Mr. Boner standing at the corner of the partition looking at him over his spectacles.
STUBBLEGEORGE LOOMS
Joe rose to his feet, obeying the monosyllabic summons, and followed Mr. Boner around the partition.
STUBBLEGEORGE LOOMS
And he was Mr. Boner's successor—that is, if he hit the ball and worked hard enough to deserve it.
STUBBLEGEORGE LOOMS
Boner was to the Queen what the Dominican Deza was to her husband.
HOUSE OF TORMENTCYRIL ARTHUR EDWARD RANGER GULL
"The Wallacks find it too much trouble to fell the trees," says Mr Boner.
ROUND ABOUT THE CARPATHIANSANDREW F. CROSSE
The young man, pure and fastidious himself, immediately realised that Boner was not vicious in the ordinary meaning of the word.
HOUSE OF TORMENTCYRIL ARTHUR EDWARD RANGER GULL
WORDS RELATED TO BONER
- X
- absurdity
- bad job
- blunder
- boner
- boo-boo
- delinquency
- delusion
- deviation
- erratum
- failure
- fall
- fallacy
- falsehood
- falsity
- fault
- faux pas
- flaw
- glitch
- goof
- howler
- inaccuracy
- lapse
- misapprehension
- misbelief
- miscalculation
- misconception
- miscue
- misdeed
- misjudgment
- mismanagement
- miss
- misstep
- misunderstanding
- offense
- omission
- oversight
- screamer
- screw-up
- sin
- slight
- slip
- slipup
- solecism
- stumble
- transgression
- trespass
- untruth
- wrongdoing
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