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Recent Examples of blackleg
Herding Sheep with Bill There was no contradicting his calendar
Of superstitions – the feast of some saint or other
The sheep had to be herded off the mountain,
Culled and counted, dipped and
Doctored with shots for blackleg.
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Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2018
Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackleg
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Always eyeing the horizon for the next easy buck, like a leering obese card sharp with an orange comb over on a steamboat chugging down the Mississippi, Trump appears unsatisfied with his crypto scams and international resort extortions.—
Guy Lawson,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2025
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And there is possibly no American actor more suited than Mr. Mays to shuffling through the dozens of players in Dickens’s celebrated tale with the ease of a cardsharp.—
Charles Isherwood,
WSJ,
23 Nov. 2022
Noun
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Implications Le Grand's work on post-World War II British social policy found that perceptions of human motivations gradually transformed, with the prevailing view of the typical British citizenry morphing from knight into knave as the costs of maintaining an expensive welfare state increased.—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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The plotters have agreed that a leadership committee consisting of a few high-ranking officials would take over running the country and negotiate a deal with the United States to stop the Israeli attacks.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
22 June 2025
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According to the investigation, the coup plotters also planned to kill Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.—
Gabriela Sá Pessoa,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Nov. 2024
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“Blackleg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackleg. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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