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"form": "more miching",
"tags": [
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]
},
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"superlative"
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"ref": "1950 [1947], Edmund Wilson, “A Dissenting Opinion on Kafka”, in Classics and Commercials: a Literary Chronicle of the Forties, page 391",
"text": "On the other hand, for me, these stories too often forfeit their effectiveness as satires through Kafka's rather meaching compliance, his little-boylike respect and fear in the presence of the things he should satirize: […]",
"type": "quotation"
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"hiding; skulking; cowardly or freeloading"
],
"id": "en-miching-en-adj-zr-z5CjS",
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"hiding",
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],
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"skulk",
"skulk"
],
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"cowardly",
"cowardly"
],
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"freeloading",
"freeloading"
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],
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"(US, dialectal, obsolete) hiding; skulking; cowardly or freeloading"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "meeching"
},
{
"word": "meaching"
},
{
"word": "mitching"
}
],
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"word": "miching"
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"ref": "1950 [1947], Edmund Wilson, “A Dissenting Opinion on Kafka”, in Classics and Commercials: a Literary Chronicle of the Forties, page 391",
"text": "On the other hand, for me, these stories too often forfeit their effectiveness as satires through Kafka's rather meaching compliance, his little-boylike respect and fear in the presence of the things he should satirize: […]",
"type": "quotation"
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"skulk",
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],
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"(US, dialectal, obsolete) hiding; skulking; cowardly or freeloading"
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"word": "meaching"
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}
],
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