"skunkery" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1906, Hunter-trader-trapper, page 29",
          "text": "In fact, he will take pride in his calling , and will not “whimper” when asked about his skunkery.",
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          "ref": "2019, Tim Davenport, David Walters, The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs, Vol. I: Building Solidarity on the Tracks, 1877-1892, Haymarket Books",
          "text": "In Michigan, a skunkery promises such profits that within a generation an aristocratic family will be founded as notable as that of the Astors or the Vanderbilts.",
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          "ref": "2021, Hermon Basil Laymon, Fur Farming for Profit, with Especial Reference to Skunk Raising, Good Press",
          "text": "This is why it seems desirable to establish a skunkery close to or in a city. Even in the country the neighbors will help out. The farmers will be only too […]",
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        "A place where skunks are raised."
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        "(countable) A place where skunks are raised."
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          "text": "1983, John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, Letters to Reyna, London : Buchan & Enright\nI felt that he had been murdered by the skunks in one of the skunkeries called ministries: & as I began to read for this, someone did a book on the theme […]"
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          "ref": "1984, John Masefield, Peter Vansittart, John Masefield's Letters from the Front, 1915-1917, page 23",
          "text": "a skunkery . Platforms, manifestoes, utopianisms, factional vendettas — all were trivial beside the sufferings in Flanders and on the seas, the lacerations inflicted both by the crook and the idealist.",
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          "ref": "2020, Bertis D. English, Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt, page 105",
          "text": "Some Perry county Democrats believed the term skunk was a fitting description for the Republican Party, so they offered the noble Democratic citizens of Alabama versus the \"skunkery” as a proper epithet for the 1870 elections.",
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          "ref": "1909 November, Lionel Josaphare, “Fictitious History of the World”, in The Overland Monthly, volume 54, number 5, page 474",
          "text": "\"Treachery? You meant skunkery, didn't you? \"",
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          "ref": "2004, Peter Vansittart, John Paul Jones: A Restless Spirit, page 40",
          "text": "It is easy to be wise and cocksure 200 years after the events that I hesitate to write yet; I do not know enough, but I do know that skunks in power make him a scapegoat and murdered him for their own dirty skunkery and its results.",
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Noel Stock, The Life of Ezra Pound",
          "text": "A packed jury and a judge interested in the case, is mere skunkery.",
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        {
          "ref": "2015, Gilbert Highet, Harold Bloom, The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature, Oxford University Press, USA, page 461",
          "text": "His chief complaint against the era of skunkery was its pettiness.",
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        "skunkish behavior."
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          "ref": "1977, Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Smoley, First Flowering: The Best of the Harvard Advocate",
          "text": "The inflation in business, the blah in economics, the asinine instruction in literature, are all of a perfume, a whorefume, a skunkery, of one smell, of one root at bottom.·",
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        "A bad smell."
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        },
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          "ref": "1984, John Masefield, Peter Vansittart, John Masefield's Letters from the Front, 1915-1917, page 23",
          "text": "a skunkery . Platforms, manifestoes, utopianisms, factional vendettas — all were trivial beside the sufferings in Flanders and on the seas, the lacerations inflicted both by the crook and the idealist.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2020, Bertis D. English, Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt, page 105",
          "text": "Some Perry county Democrats believed the term skunk was a fitting description for the Republican Party, so they offered the noble Democratic citizens of Alabama versus the \"skunkery” as a proper epithet for the 1870 elections.",
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          "text": "\"Treachery? You meant skunkery, didn't you? \"",
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          "ref": "2004, Peter Vansittart, John Paul Jones: A Restless Spirit, page 40",
          "text": "It is easy to be wise and cocksure 200 years after the events that I hesitate to write yet; I do not know enough, but I do know that skunks in power make him a scapegoat and murdered him for their own dirty skunkery and its results.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2013, Noel Stock, The Life of Ezra Pound",
          "text": "A packed jury and a judge interested in the case, is mere skunkery.",
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          "ref": "2015, Gilbert Highet, Harold Bloom, The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature, Oxford University Press, USA, page 461",
          "text": "His chief complaint against the era of skunkery was its pettiness.",
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        "(uncountable) skunkish behavior."
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          "text": "The inflation in business, the blah in economics, the asinine instruction in literature, are all of a perfume, a whorefume, a skunkery, of one smell, of one root at bottom.·",
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        "(uncountable) A bad smell."
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