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I would almost go so far as to say that in many respects their proposals are reeking.
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To me that is just another part of this wretched legislation which reeks of retribution and revenge.
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The majority are intensely ashamed of ditches reeking with the overflow from unemptied cesspits and of fields and gardens used as sewage dumps.
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The way in which the tax is presented reeks of environmental rectitude, but it does absolutely nothing for the environment and hits the wrong targets.
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Others would say that it reeked of double standards and hypocrisy.
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Our system of selecting, training and promoting magistrates and judges remains mysterious, secretive and unaccountable and reeks of patronage.
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He does not approach the problem reeking of the midnight oil of academic study.
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I think it will be gathered that my own impression is that this scheme reeks with equivocation.
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To exclude people from direct payments if they are over retirement age smacks, some might say reeks, of unfair discrimination.
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What is the meaning of "reeked of turpitude"?
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Their provision is most illiberal and reeks a little of spite.
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I was a miner for 21 years and was not allowed to go down the pit shaft, along with other miners, reeking of ale.
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Not only is it an old building; it reeks with history.
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The whole policy reeks to me of the very thing which will ruin this country.
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The banks are reeking with profits that they have never known before.
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The plaster was falling from the walls and the houses were reeking with dampness and water.
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There were some question marks about the regime, but the debates and comments on the report have reeked of hindsight.
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I have to tell him that it was a very foolish speech that reeked of complacency.
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The entire edifice reeks of snobbery and class division.
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The fact is, as is clear from the silence, that nobody did, because nobody would support a proposal so reeking of political corruption and so consistent with party political advantage.
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His whole speech reeked of complacency.
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The whole place reeked, and rotting remains of animal carcases, including a lamb, were found in the building, and it was from this relic that the dogs were being fed.
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There is enthusiasm because our present system of industrial relations reeks of inequities, which are offensive to a free society and an affront to common sense.
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What is the position of publishers who in their innocence may publish a work which they did not know was created by somebody who reeked of turpitude?
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His action reeked of turpitude.
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I know that the question reeks with what the orthodox people would call heresy, and it really comes down to the battle between the social creditor and the banker.
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He stated that lately he happened to find himself in an entry where he saw quite opposite to one another two reeking places full of disorderly people.
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The tobacco industry's own self-righteous advertising campaign reeks of hypocrisy.
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The area is reeking with disease.
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Conversely, a young couple have already waited seven years to start a family because they do not think two rooms in a reeking basement a fit place.
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A declaration now of the importance of charity as a central institution in our society maybe reeks of platitude.
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The report reeks of trying to give a little to everybody; there will be a few women, a few ethnic minorities and a few people who are elected.
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To my mind, the whole approach reeks of future court cases and human rights claims.
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The whole country is reeking with unemployment.
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If the police do stop him under my proposals, they will breath-test him because he is the sort of fellow who will be positively reeking of drink.
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In addition to that, the whole thing reeks of deflation.
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What he said reeked of complacency.
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A hope to shake hands with a man whose hands are reeking with the warm blood of his own countrymen, thousands of whom are still in prison?
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Their approach reeks of it.
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The statement reeks of dishonesty.
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The position absolutely reeks of inconsistency.
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The whole thing reeks of political expediency.
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The whole thing reeks of inefficiency.
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The whole proceeding reeks of prejudice.
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The film totally reeks of that age-old concept which certainly doesn't work anymore.
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The car reeks of alcohol and the assumption is that it is a drink drive accident.
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The fetid air of his breath extinguishes all nearby fires, and he reeks with the sweet stench of ancient death.
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From its title to its threadbare plot to its community-access-level production values, the film reeks of crass exploitation.
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Each haunting episode reeks of a sublime suspense with a liberal coating of electric eccentricity.
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The lifeless seas, filthy and reeking, crept up on mankind, inch by inch.
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The island now is infertile, crowded, reeking with gas fumes and the dust from the bauxite plant.
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The satire was toothless, the playing strained and the whole enterprise reeked of mild desperation.
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The review also says the game reeks of plagiarism, stating it is worse than the original games it is modelled after.
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There has never yet been an attacker who was not reeking with crime.
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The film reeks with a sense of basic injustice.
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Their dialogue is a stilted prose that had never been spoken by anyone and reeked of translation.
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The area was full of tortuous and narrow lanes, badly drained and reeking with foul odours, thickly populated and miserably housed.
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Reeks started his own real estate company in 1967.
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To me that reeks of clich and cop-out.
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An individual who reeks of the smell of dead bodies will die within fifteen days.
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I found intolerable my further daily association with men, however gracious and accommodatingwho were still reeking with the blood of nearly a million human beings.
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He finds the inhabitants have a repulsive appearance and the whole town reeks of corruption, most houses are boarded up and apparently derelict.
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Your breath reeks of death!
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The atmosphere reeks with blasphemy.
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The so-called impressionistic school of literary criticism used to eulogise literary works in a way that reeked of romanticism and based evaluation on subjectivity rather than on any literary theory.
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His heavy breath reeks of rot.
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Most community centres are provided by education authorities and town councils and expenditure on them is reek onable for rate support grant.
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We have to work in that air with the reek from those men and from the horses, with all the fumes round the face.
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How can anyone say that that remark does not reek of complacency?
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None of us likes paying rates, but such attacks reek of opportunism.
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An atmosphere charged with the reek of attempted assassination is not a favourable one in which to promote a measure of reconciliation.
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There was more than a reek of wishful thinking about that question.
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To me, that reply does not reek with confidence.
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The reason why it is a breath of fresh air is that it does not absolutely reek of bureaucracy.
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Does that not reek of double standards?
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In many of their houses the floorboards are rotted, their furniture is destroyed, and many of the rooms, one might say, reek of dampness and decay.
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They absolutely reek of discretion.
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They all inhabit a closed world, where even pastoral idylls reek of claustrophobia and obsession.
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At least some cells reek and have mould.
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Miyuki is known by her students to never dress up, nor wear makeup and to almost always reek of alcohol.
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The oldest part is a so-called "roykstova" (reek parlour, or smoke room).
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After closing the doors behind him, he notices the salty reek to the air.
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The sisters reek of over-achievement and insecurity and subconsciously long for the approval and love of their domineering father.
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The neoclassical sofa also reeked another kind of debauchery: luxury.
Individual testimony on the behavior of such spirits reeked too much of enthusiasm and dogmatism.
The house simply reeked of grilled bloaters.
Ears ringing, he recovered himself and turned to peer through the reek.
As for the report, it reeks of hypocrisy, and that is why we voted against it.
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The proposal reeks of covert protectionism!
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The trouble only comes in from villainous adulteration, and from the sale of raw spirit while it is still reeking with fusel oil.
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Let us remember that the whole thing reeks of humbug and hypocrisy.
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His place reeks of glue and gas fumes.
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You will know, from your long experience, that this place reeks with privilege and patronage of the worst kind.
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I have been surrounded by that reeking dirt stack all my life.
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The evidence positively reeks of this dismissive attitude.
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I listened carefully to every word he said, and his speech reeked of complacency.
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The very language of it reeks of patronage.
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The whole thing reeks of this kind of examination by limited numbers of people on matters which can have great consequences.
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