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public enemy

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meanings of publicand enemy


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public
adjective
uk /ˈpʌb.lɪk/ us /ˈpʌb.lɪk/
relating to or involving people in general, rather than being limited to a particular group ...
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enemy
noun
uk /ˈen.ə.mi/ us /ˈen.ə.mi/
a person who hates or opposes another person and tries to harm them or stop them from ...
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Examples of public enemy


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If the bandit had not become a publicenemy, it is unlikely that the growth of federal power in the twentieth century would have enjoyed domestic political legitimacy.
I am not sure that in this matter we are not pursuing the wrong publicenemy, so to speak.
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Some people are trying to make out that this material is publicenemy number one.
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The dog is man's best friend, but in some areas dogs are becoming publicenemy number one.
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That is that person's publicenemy number one.
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The words "private landlords"are pronounced sneeringly, as though they spelt"publicenemy".
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The dog is her publicenemy number one.
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Poverty, the foremost publicenemy, was forced to give more ground.
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I was horrified to hear the alleged description of general aviation as "publicenemy number one".
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There is no doubt that inflation is publicenemy number one, and if it is we have to fight it as such.
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They must all be reversed if we really intend to fight inflation as publicenemy number one.
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He suddenly stopped being flavour of the month and became publicenemy number one.
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For us, inflation is publicenemy number one.
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Who do those people now regard as publicenemy number one?
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He is therefore the publicenemy.
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Sinatra is also critical of refined sugar, which he has called publicenemy number one when it comes to heart disease, not cholesterol.
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He was later regarded as a publicenemy.
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It carries to its ultimate absurdity the fashion for romanticizing gangsters, for even in defeat the publicenemy is endowed with grandeur.
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She had been accused of anti-patriotism and proclaimed a traitor, a publicenemy and a witch.
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