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Filibustering

Filibuster \Fil"i*bus*ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fillibustered; p. pr. & vb. n. Filibustering.]

  1. To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
    --Bartlett.

  2. To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. [political cant or slang, U.S.]
    --Bartlett.

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filibustering

vb. (present participle of filibuster English)

Usage examples of "filibustering".

Gillian made a note of the filibustering, and picked up the several bound volumes of typed sheets which represented the detailed reports of several operatives on the activities of the schooner's crew.

On the previous summer, wasn't she engaged in filibustering carrying machine guns and ammunition into Nicaragua?

That he should have conducted his filibustering with hands as clean as were possible to a man engaged in such undertakings had also not occurred to her as a charitable thought with which to mitigate her judgment of a man she had once esteemed.