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antibody
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n 1: any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the
body or produced in response to an antigen which it
neutralizes, thus producing an immune response
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blocky
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adj 1: resembling a block in shape [syn: blockish, blocky]
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blotchy
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adj 1: marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots [syn:
blotched, blotchy, splotched]
2: marred by discolored spots or blotches; "blotchy skin"
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bobby
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n 1: an informal term for a British policeman
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body
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n 1: the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or
human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire"
[syn: body, organic structure, physical structure]
2: a group of persons associated by some common tie or
occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed
out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative
body"
3: a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they
found the body in the lake" [syn: body, dead body]
4: an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is
distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body"
5: the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved
their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: torso, trunk,
body]
6: a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body
of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
7: the property of holding together and retaining its shape;
"wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough
consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistency,
consistence, eubstance, body]
8: the central message of a communication; "the body of the
message was short"
9: the main mass of a thing
10: a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of
a violin) [syn: soundbox, body]
11: the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car
was badly rusted"
v 1: invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: body,
personify]
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botchy
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adj 1: poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an
unskillful attempt" [syn: botchy, butcherly,
unskillful]
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busybody
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n 1: a person who meddles in the affairs of others [syn:
busybody, nosy-parker, nosey-parker, quidnunc]
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choppy
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adj 1: marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose" [syn:
choppy, jerky]
2: rough with small waves; "choppy seas"
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cocky
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adj 1: overly self-confident or self-assertive; "a very cocky
young man"
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copy
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n 1: a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or
school record) [syn: transcript, copy]
2: a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing;
"she made a copy of the designer dress"; "the clone was a
copy of its ancestor"
3: matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials [syn:
copy, written matter]
4: material suitable for a journalistic account; "catastrophes
make good copy"
v 1: copy down as is; "The students were made to copy the
alphabet over and over"
2: reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the
passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older
siblings" [syn: imitate, copy, simulate]
3: reproduce or make an exact copy of; "replicate the cell";
"copy the genetic information" [syn: replicate, copy]
4: make a replica of; "copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture
by Rembrandt" [syn: copy, re-create]
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disembody
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v 1: free from a body or physical form or reality
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dotty
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adj 1: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used
to drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy,
bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked,
crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire,
kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts,
nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky,
whacky]
2: intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; "crazy
about cars and racing"; "he is potty about her" [syn:
crazy, wild, dotty, gaga]
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floppy
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adj 1: hanging limply; "a spaniel with floppy ears"
n 1: a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope
with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a
microcomputer; "floppy disks are noted for their relatively
slow speed and small capacity and low price" [syn:
diskette, floppy, floppy disk]
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foggy
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adj 1: stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or
drunkenness or exhaustion) [syn: dazed, foggy,
groggy, logy, stuporous]
2: indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred
outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" [syn:
bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy,
muzzy]
3: filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October
morning" [syn: brumous, foggy, hazy, misty]
4: obscured by fog; "he could barely see through the fogged
window" [syn: fogged, foggy]
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groggy
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adj 1: stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or
drunkenness or exhaustion) [syn: dazed, foggy,
groggy, logy, stuporous]
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haughty
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adj 1: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of
those one views as unworthy; "some economists are
disdainful of their colleagues in other social
disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners
were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very
sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my
clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood
than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty,
imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful,
sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]
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hobby
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n 1: an auxiliary activity [syn: avocation, by-line,
hobby, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity]
2: a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted
on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride [syn:
hobby, hobbyhorse, rocking horse]
3: small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small
birds [syn: hobby, Falco subbuteo]
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hockey
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n 1: a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open
field; two opposing teams use curved sticks try to drive a
ball into the opponents' net [syn: field hockey,
hockey]
2: a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six
skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the
opponents' goal with angled sticks [syn: ice hockey,
hockey, hockey game]
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jockey
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n 1: someone employed to ride horses in horse races
2: an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus; "he's a
truck jockey"; "a computer jockey"; "a disc jockey"
v 1: defeat someone through trickery or deceit [syn: cheat,
chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey]
2: compete (for an advantage or a position)
3: ride a racehorse as a professional jockey
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karate
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n 1: a traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat; sharp
blows and kicks are given to pressure-sensitive points on
the body of the opponent
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knotty
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adj 1: making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve
or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty
problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic
situation at home" [syn: baffling, elusive, knotty,
problematic, problematical, tough]
2: used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or
knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" [syn:
gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed]
3: highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the
Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on
to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language";
"convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a
knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering";
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott;
"tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting
for months" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, involved,
knotty, tangled, tortuous]
4: tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string";
"snarled thread" [syn: knotty, snarled, snarly]
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literati
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n 1: the literary intelligentsia
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lobby
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n 1: a large entrance or reception room or area [syn:
anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall,
foyer, lobby, vestibule]
2: the people who support some common cause or business or
principle or sectional interest
3: a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
[syn: lobby, pressure group, third house]
v 1: detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the
outer garments of; as for political or economic favors
[syn: lobby, buttonhole]
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naughty
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adj 1: suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue
jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy
details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty
words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy
gossip" [syn: blue, gamy, gamey, juicy,
naughty, racy, risque, spicy]
2: badly behaved; "a naughty boy"
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poppy
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n 1: annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers
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potty
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adj 1: marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "gaga over the
rock group's new album"; "he was infatuated with her"
[syn: enamored, infatuated, in love, potty,
smitten, soft on(p), taken with(p)]
2: (British informal) trivial; "potty little details"
3: slightly intoxicated [syn: potty, tiddly, tipsy]
n 1: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn:
toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty,
stool, throne]
2: a receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom [syn:
chamberpot, potty, thunder mug]
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rocky
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adj 1: abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony
ground"; "bouldery beaches" [syn: rocky, bouldery,
bouldered, stony]
2: causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a
rough ride" [syn: rough, rocky, bumpy, jolty,
jolting, jumpy] [ant: smooth]
3: liable to rock; "on high rocky heels"
4: full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success";
"they were having a rough time" [syn: rocky, rough]
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shoddy
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adj 1: cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on
the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist [syn:
cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry]
2: of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-
built houses" [syn: jerry-built, shoddy]
3: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or
inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm";
"deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading
similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are
misleading"; "shoddy business practices" [syn: deceptive,
misleading, shoddy]
n 1: reclaimed wool fiber
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sloppy
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adj 1: lacking neatness or order; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy
habits"
2: wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; "a
sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
3: (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot";
"a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland";
"muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the
pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy, marshy, miry,
mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy,
squashy, swampy, waterlogged]
4: not fitting closely; hanging loosely; "baggy trousers"; "a
loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather" [syn:
baggy, loose-fitting, sloppy]
5: excessively or abnormally emotional [syn: overemotional,
sloppy]
6: marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of
record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling";
"sloppy workmanship" [syn: haphazard, slapdash,
slipshod, sloppy]
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snobby
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adj 1: befitting or characteristic of those who incline to
social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of
people considered inferior [syn: clannish, cliquish,
clubby, snobbish, snobby]
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snotty
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adj 1: (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a
snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le
Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and
persnickety" [syn: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty,
snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's
breeches, uppish]
2: dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of
snot-nosed kids" [syn: snotty, snot-nosed]
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soggy
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adj 1: (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under
foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky
lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the
sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy,
marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy,
sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged]
2: having the consistency of dough because of insufficient
leavening or improper cooking; "the cake fell; it's a doughy
mess" [syn: doughy, soggy]
3: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish
worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: inert,
sluggish, soggy, torpid]
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soppy
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adj 1: wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the
door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "the speaker's
sodden collar"; "soppy clothes" [syn: sodden, soppy]
2: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a
schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
[syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish,
kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental,
soppy, soupy, slushy]
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spotty
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adj 1: having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color
or texture); "a field patched with ice and snow"; "the
wall had a spotty speckled effect"; "a black-and-white
spotted cow" [syn: patched, spotty, spotted]
2: lacking consistency; "the golfer hit the ball well but his
putting was spotty" [syn: spotty, uneven, scratchy]
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squatty
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adj 1: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy
musculature; "some people seem born to be square and
chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman";
"dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a
little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red
smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure" [syn: chunky,
dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy]
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stocky
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adj 1: having a short and solid form or stature; "a wrestler of
compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky
legs"; "a thickset young man" [syn: compact,
heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset]
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toddy
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n 1: a mixed drink made of liquor and water with sugar and
spices and served hot [syn: hot toddy, toddy]
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zloty
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n 1: the basic unit of money in Poland
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cloggy
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adj 1: (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil
was heavy and easily saturated" [syn: clayey, cloggy,
heavy]
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knobby
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adj 1: having knobs; "had knobbly knees" [syn: knobby,
knobbly]
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saki
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n 1: British writer of short stories (1870-1916) [syn: Munro,
H. H. Munro, Hector Hugh Munro, Saki]
2: Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually
served hot [syn: sake, saki, rice beer]
3: small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long
hair and bushy nonprehensile tail
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squabby
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adj 1: short and fat [syn: squab, squabby]
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scottie
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n 1: old Scottish breed of small long-haired usually black
terrier with erect tail and ears [syn: Scotch terrier,
Scottish terrier, Scottie]
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marathi
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n 1: an Indic language; the state language of Maharashtra in
west central India; written in the Devanagari script [syn:
Marathi, Mahratti]
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kiribati
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n 1: an island republic in the west central Pacific just to the
south of the equator [syn: Kiribati, Republic of
Kiribati]
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pavarotti
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n 1: Italian tenor (born in 1935) [syn: Pavarotti, Luciano
Pavarotti]
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anybody
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lottie
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noddy
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robby
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galati
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allottee
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crotty
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bilotti
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donati
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galotti
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hlavaty
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ammirati
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benenati
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beninati
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braggiotti
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candiotti
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capriati
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delligatti
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diodati
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giamatti
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jereissati
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lanzelotti
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liberati
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maserati
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totty
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