blackleg

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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. Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackleg
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • How does history distinguish knaves from legendary figures?
    W.E. Gutman, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Though ultimately abandoned, the plotters went so far as to begin tracking Moraes’s movements, according to the New York Times.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The big difference is that a plotter typically uses digital commands to control the pen’s motion, while the motion of a recorder’s pen is controlled by analog voltage inputs.
    Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2025

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“Blackleg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackleg. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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