marplot
Example Sentences
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Humpty is Puss’ childhood frenemy: pal, rival and seemingly inept marplot to our hero’s suave efficiency in a crisis.
From Time • Oct. 28, 2011
Sporting heiress airs, a cruel gash of lipstick and a series of killer frocks in the 1948 A Date with Judy, Taylor plays snooty Carol, the marplot to Jane Powell's swell-town girl.
From Time • Apr. 14, 2011
Sporting heiress airs, a cruel gash of lipstick and a series of killer frocks in the 1948 A Date With Judy, Taylor has the role of snooty Carol, the marplot to Jane Powell's swell-town girl.
From Time • Mar. 23, 2011
Woodrow Wilson, often his foe, called him a marplot.
From Time Magazine Archive
I did not wish to be a killjoy and a marplot, or I would have forbidden Fred to touch a foot-ball after he entered college.
From The Opinions of a Philosopher by Grant, Robert
