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 Current Search - crumby in The Catcher in the Rye
1  Then he gave me a big shove with his crumby hand.
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2  He was putting away all his crumby toilet articles.
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3  Sinus trouble, pimples, lousy teeth, halitosis, crumby fingernails.
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4  It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
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5  He was almost standing on top of me, his crumby old hairy stomach and all.
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6  It always had a funny stink in it, because he was so crumby in his personal habits.
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7  You could hear him putting away his crumby toilet articles and all, and opening the window.
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8  Sometimes I can think of very crumby stuff I wouldn't mind doing if the opportunity came up.
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9  That isn't too far from this crumby place, and he comes over and visits me practically every week end.
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10  Her son was doubtless the biggest bastard that ever went to Pencey, in the whole crumby history of the school.
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11  They gave me this very crumby room, with nothing to look out of the window at except the other side of the hotel.
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12  Girls aren't too much help, either, when you start trying not to get too crumby, when you start trying not to spoil anything really good.
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13  I can even see how it might be quite a lot of fun, in a crumby way, and if you were both sort of drunk and all, to get a girl and squirt water or something all over each other's face.
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14  I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it.
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