umbrageous
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Voters are urged, for instance, to pick List No. 169, the one approved by the umbrageous Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani.
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The great auk and Labrador duck were gone; the umbrageous flocks of passenger pigeons were reduced to a pathetic aviary remnant; the trumpeter swan seemed likely to be silenced forever.
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Success formula of the week came from Georgia's umbrageous Dan Duke, outgoing Assistant Attorney General.
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It was a town surrounded by rich tidal rivers and marshes, a serene haven of antebellum houses on large lots, of streets crisscrossing through umbrageous tunnels of live oak and banks of riotous azaleas.
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Below-decks, we formed as best we could in straitened space and umbrageous darkness.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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