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"ref": "1922, Upton Sinclair, chapter 14, in They call Me Carpenter",
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"ref": "2006, Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child, page 56",
"text": "Mr. Martin objected at first to the bastardization of my talent, but I gave him a sob story about needing money for lessons.",
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "sad story",
"word": "smartlap"
},
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"sense": "sad story",
"word": "tranentrekker"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sad story",
"word": "nyyhkytarina"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "sad story",
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"word": "histoire à faire pleurer dans les chaumières"
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"word": "Schmachtfetzen"
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"sense": "sad story",
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"sense": "sad story",
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"feminine"
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"word": "poveste lacrimogenă"
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"sense": "sad story",
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"sense": "sad story",
"word": "smartlap"
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"sense": "sad story",
"word": "tranentrekker"
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"sense": "sad story",
"word": "nyyhkytarina"
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"sense": "sad story",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "histoire à faire pleurer dans les chaumières"
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"sense": "sad story",
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"feminine"
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"word": "histoire larmoyante"
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"sense": "sad story",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "sad story",
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"word": "Schmachtfetzen"
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"sense": "sad story",
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"word": "łzawa historyjka"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "sad story",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "poveste lacrimogenă"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "sad story",
"word": "snyfthistoria"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "sad story",
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