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n. (inverted comma English)
Usage examples of "inverted commas".
A man who put inverted commas round any word or phrase he thought of as even slightly `racy'.
A man who put inverted commas round any word or phrase he thought of as even slightly racy.
A man who put inverted commas round any word or phrase he thought of as even slightly 'racy'.
If we conduct an interventive experiment, and inject a drug which results in an animal not performing some task on which it has been trained 'correctly' (I won't bother putting that word into inverted commas henceforward.
To conclude purely negatively from the positive absence of political odia and monetary requests that its page cannot ever have been a penproduct of a man or woman of that period or those parts is only one more unlookedfor conclusion leaped at, being tantamount to inferring from the nonpresence of inverted commas (sometimes called quotation marks) on any page that its author was always constitutionally incapable of misappropriating the spoken words of others.
I sent a reply expressing my regret, and adding: As for the 'Grand Duchess of Luxembourg' (in inverted commas), tell her that if she is coming to see me I am at home every Thursday after five.
You know, Commander, it is interesting that so many of, ah-ha, Old Stoneface's descendants' - the inverted commas dropped neatly around the nickname like an old lady carefully picking up something nasty in a pair of tongs - 'have been officers of the Watch.