kangaroo
Example Sentences
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It didn’t help that her husband—who’d known Hoxha when the two men were students together in Paris—was found guilty by a kangaroo court of plotting to overthrow the government.
"He finished his sentence for God's sake. It was an unfair sentence rendered by a kangaroo court," his mother says.
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Compensation for sub-postmasters is not being decided by a "kangaroo court", the body overseeing the payouts has said, pushing back against allegations made by Sir Alan Bates.
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A "really muscly" kangaroo "tried to drown" a man in Australia, after the two got into a punch-up.
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In the second part of her statement, Jones launches a scathing attack on Australia's animal culling laws, including wombats, kangaroos, horses, deer and pigs.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
