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sad tale

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meanings of sadand tale


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sad
adjective
uk /sæd/ us /sæd/
unhappy ...
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tale
noun[C]
uk /teɪl/ us /teɪl/
a story, especially one that might be invented or difficult ...
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Examples of sad tale


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Here we have the sadtale of theologians leaving the straight and narrow biblical path.
All this is a sadtale of delay and utter illegality.
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It certainly is a sadtale and all of it is absolutely true.
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But in regard to this the commissioner for health has a very sadtale to tell.
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That is the sadtale of the public sector borrowing requirement.
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There is, indeed, a sadtale both for new housing and for modernised homes.
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This is the point of this sadtale.
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It is a sadtale of the contrasts between our two cities.
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I am afraid that this is a rather sadtale of miscalculation.
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However, there was a ray of sunshine in this sadtale.
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It has been a sadtale of delay and procrastination.
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They tell a sadtale of inadequate management, and many major areas of waste and inefficiency.
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This has been a sad, sadtale of a lack of public accountability.
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The record of foreign private investment is a sadtale.
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It is a sadtale when the most star-crossed party in history has to initiate such a debate.
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Men were leaving the industry because of conditions in the mines, the sadtale of industrial depression, the series of national strikes, and the like.
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The deficit also reveals another sadtale.
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It is quite true, but it is a sadtale to tell of the increase of expenditure since my party came into power—two years of increase.
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Let me tell him the sadtale that my farm is the last farm before the livestock rearing areas begin.
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This is yet another chapter in the sadtale of disaster which has distressed us all so grievously in the course of the last few days.
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