How To Use Spiv In A Sentence
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They watched in wonder as bankers, industrialists and assorted spivs piled up more and more riches.
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She would recount how it was possible to buy anything - from meat, chocolate, cigarettes and the obligatory ‘nylons’ - from the spivs and black market racketeers.
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The spiv, the showman; Mr Blair promised a brave new world - a shining castle on the hill - very Reaganish... a promise he most certainly could not uphold as there was no hill, the castle was made of papier mache and when the rains came it melted away......
The coalition counts on blaming Labour for everything. Bad move| Rafael Behr
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What such a history would particularly need to convey in relation to higher education is the paradigm shift brought about since 1992 by the increasing influence of the spivs in suits (aka managers).
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I thought the art of the spiv had died out years ago.
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We used to have the yobbo (Clarkson), the spiv (quentin) and the boy racer (Needel), now we have two geriatrics and one in training.
The last one (almost) « Transmission – BBC Top Gear
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Chairman of the Mid-Hants Watercress Line, David Snow, dressed as a spiv for the occasion, said the weekend was a resounding success with the first day attracting bigger crowds than last year.
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Which free market, you don't mean the massive military industrial complex do you, or do you mean that market where the spivs in London flood the country with money which massively inflates house prices then demand more from the Government to settle bad gambling debts, meanwhile Joe Bloggs loses everything, his job, his house and his life savings.
The optimists of Davos past now face a world whose script has gone awry | Timothy Garton Ash
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The roots lie in the British 80s and 90s -- two decades defined by the "chav" and "spiv" culture that was the fruit of the Murdoch 'n' Maggie as in Margaret Thatcher union.
Martin Lewis: A Big Pile of Murdoch: The Ultimate Legacy of Rupert Merde...
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Another accusation thrown at the market is that its light regulatory touch could open the door to spivs and hopeless cases.
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Get rid of these dreadful spivs with their electric guitars and let's up the current affairs quota!
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Update: Upon reflection I think Mr Weston might well be seen as a slightly camp version of what the English used to call a "spiv".
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Spivak is often viewed as an unequivocally deconstructive theorist, and she frequently reinforces this impression by proclaiming her allegiance to Derrida's ideas.
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Washington Post writer Roger Piantadosi called Mr. Spivak's show an enjoyable departure "from the relentlessly upbeat, carefree, trouble-free, commercial-free aural cheese spread of the ever-insidious phenomenon known to some as safe programming, to others as McRadio.
Joel A. Spivak, radio personality and anti-smoking spokesman, dies at 75
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Guys like him are part of the English culture - he's like the spiv from the Second World War.
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It's billed as the simple tale of an Australian political superhero and his valiant battles with assorted mugs, dummies, gutless spivs, clowns, fools and scumbags.
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Harry is fed up being confused, alarmed and he finds he has seized the little weasel, the little spiv and ground him like pretzel against the dividing panel.
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However, he was only following the precedent set by the spineless grinning 'spiv' Blair who constantly referred to and talked about:
Army Rumour Service
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The only surprising figure is Fallon's spivvy henchman - a hilarious turn from Pip Carter, all unpindownable accent, brown suede shoes and social grievances.
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That, and the simple fact that anybody with a gimmick on prime-time TV is bound to be a hit no matter what they do, whether it's nuns and paintings or suited spivs with antiques.
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That kind of obsequious attitude plus Gordon Brown's 'light touch regulation' were taken by the 'spiv' element in the City as the signal that anything goes.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...
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One of the choicest ironies is that he now speaks with disapproval about black marketeers, spivs and touts and unofficial operators, and has nothing but praise for his new friends in the RFU.
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If it had started raining high-helled shoes on Spivey's head, well,
The Truth About Cars
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A bored telemarketer teams up with a mate for a get-rich scam that takes on all the get-richer spivs.
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Regulars will be dressing up for the occasion too - as everything from wartime spivs to army officers and nurses.
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She travels to Chennai as regularly as Spivak to Kolkata and, like many of these global scholars, inhabits something inclusive and unhyphenated that could be called EastWest.
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There are of course all sorts of reasons for not wanting to be an old - or young - Harrovian, fear of being thought spivvy would certainly be one of them.
The oldest truth in political history
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The single exceptions (apart from the wicked spiv who finds the girls) are the only two working-class characters who show any signs of aspiration or youth.
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Dire circumstances gave social sanction to small scale corruption and spivs were simultaneously despised and admired as buccaneers.
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Martin Clunes plays George Haigh, a wartime spiv who murdered nine people and dissolved their bodies in acid.
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Finally, the word "spiv": no fashion lesson here, just enjoyment of the word's debut on this page.
British Blogs
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Terry's financial dealings, which have been described as "spivvy" (he has moonlighted from his Stg£170,000 a week on nixer jobs), have been added to the charge sheet on his character.
Irish Blogs
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Using an ultratiny "nanocamera," director Spiv McToganata actually gets inside fat molecules and captures them in the lurid act of exploding in the pan.
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She would recount how it was possible to buy anything - from meat, chocolate, cigarettes and the obligatory ‘nylons’ - from the spivs and black market racketeers.
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Resident Colin Spivey discovered their handiwork this weekend after leaving his local B & Q superstore to load his car.
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In the foreground, the spivs of spin hawk their pretty baubles.
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Kata, 25, a switch-hitter, stepped in when Arizona regular second baseman Junior Spivey was injured. He proved a real find.
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On that count, Mr Spivak's original creation deserves attention.
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- the stupidity of so many voters who believed in the vacuous 'spiv' Blair and the spin from Campbell and the twice disgraced Mandelson.
Army Rumour Service
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My new government of troglodytes, murderers and spivs barely elongates the customary scream I give upon waking.
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Lincoln thought twice about extending her sportsmanship to helping the sepultural spiv up as she realized this would be seen as a demoralizing gesture rather than a respectful one.
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Glass cites the example of the Soviet Union, whose old nomenklatura may now be numbered among ‘the tyrants and spivs of the succeeding capitalist order’.
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Thumbnail sketches often characterize Spivak's work as a multivalent and polyvocal body of texts which lock together Marxism, feminism, and deconstruction in a rigorous reassessment of cultural systems.
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Convicted crook Ray Williams is doing even more porridge than insurance spiv Rodney Adler.
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One evening Commodore Spiva met me as I walked museful in a grove.
Tupelo
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This political 'spiv' gave no thought to the aftermath of his decisions internationally or nationally.
Army Rumour Service
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HM Treasury famously preens itself as having a collection of the very finest minds Oxbridge can produce – a pity then their principal activity seems to be devising spiv-like ways of deceiving the punters.
Society daily 26.10.2010
