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View definitions for dear me

dear me

interjection as in alas

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interjection as in gosh

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"Dear me," Si says simply, before turning away, too overwhelmed by the "big yawning gap" in the landscape.

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Dear me, what a depressing season this has been for them.

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But he became contemptuous of Boris Johnson, at one point saying "dear me, he really, really is awful" while being filmed after connecting remotely to a Covid meeting led by the then prime minister in 2020.

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"Dear me, he really, really is awful," he said.

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At first, she said, she thought: “‘Oh, no, dear me, I am a literary author.

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

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