How To Use Name-dropping In A Sentence
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The properties have certainly been designed with the chattering classes in mind - practically every single room in every property is an exercise in name-dropping.
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Harvey is given to name-dropping, idealistic stream of consciousness rambles, sentence fragments and gushing enthusiasm.
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The assistant carried on talking to his mate, name-dropping all the famous riders he knew.
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Valentine is fictional, a character in Judith Krantz's Scruples, a book that positively sizzles with brand-name-dropping, put there not as paid product placement but as verisimilitude of an especially glamorous kind.
Archive 2008-07-01
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Certainly you can't underestimate the good done by his championing of obscure bands to a wide audience, even if the way he did it smacked of name-dropping.
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the hard thing about name-dropping is to avoid being too obvious about it
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The assistant carried on talking to his mate, name-dropping all the famous riders he knew.
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What you are expert on is name-dropping.
Times, Sunday Times
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No name-dropping, no technical language and don't expect the discussion to result in anything so banal as a conclusion.
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I must stop saying everyone famous is a good friend. It sounds as if I'm name-dropping.
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He was not a man for garrulous name-dropping.
Times, Sunday Times
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The price of such name-dropping is seldom modest, however.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's also not shy of name-dropping.
Times, Sunday Times
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No less impressive is their literary name-dropping.
Times, Sunday Times
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Excuse our name-dropping, but we just need to tell you.
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The poetry name-dropping mania was spreading.
Times, Sunday Times
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The name-dropping rolls off the tongue so glibly that sometimes you wonder if those genuflecting have actually listened to the music or are simply reading from an approved checklist of the super-cool.
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And I would say I'm guilty of the same name-dropping and ‘guess where I've been and what cool people I'm hanging out with’ blogging.
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Reconnecting with this sticky-fingered siren becomes Jason's new vocation and obsession, though he's often distracted by sparring with a smarmy boss SNL's Chris Parnell, very funny in the first few episodes and hanging with a gaggle of aggressively trendy friends, who give the Happy Endings cast a run for their money in name-dropping cultural references.
Thursday's TV: Sweeps Begin, and MTV Loses Its Pants
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That wasn't at all an example of pretentious musical name-dropping, was it?
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This pretentious, precious, pseudo-poetic, name-dropping drivel is one of those endless monologues that in the hands of an arrogant, untalented twit become menaces to society.
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So he came out fighting and name-dropping.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now if Kyle wants to enable her admittedly "disheveled" sister by testing her drinks, rushing her off to fix her makeup and violently coming to her defense — as she did during last night's disastrous game night at name-dropping, price-tag brag Dana's place — fine.
Watercooler: Can Someone Please Help the Real Housewives' Kim?
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Then the legendary name-dropping begins.
Times, Sunday Times
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The name-dropping in the last two paragraphs isn't so important.
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Expect observational riffs and a little name-dropping.
Times, Sunday Times
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She is all for name-dropping but, despite more than 50 years in the industry and her unmistakably diva-ish carriage, she has nothing bad to say about anyone.
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But please, don't stop name-dropping your glamorous existence in the sweaty cosmopolis on my account.
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Yes, but they have their good qualities, such as free advertising and name-dropping.
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The search for influences quickly degenerates into meaningless name-dropping.
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Logo apes Bravo's Housewives bottom-feeders with the all-male The A-List: New York, where bitchy name-dropping narcissism is magnified by a desperate desire to play to the camera.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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The book is also full of name-dropping (notably of rather unnotable people) and worst of all - she tries to have it both ways - revelling in scandalous anecdotes yet claiming she remained ‘above it all’.
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The assistant carried on talking to his mate, name-dropping all the famous riders he knew.
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He had served on numerous civic committees and dabbled on the fringes of politics, mainly at the name-dropping level.
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Cardiff is just the place to expand your culinary horizons, meet your canny Celtic cousins and do a little name-dropping.
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It was also the ancient world equivalent of name-dropping designed to differentiate him from the rest of the philosopher herd affected by divine radiation.
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The little midfielder, now 34 and hoping to fan the embers of his career with Dundee United, certainly cannot be accused of name-dropping.
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Thankfully I wasn't blogging then, because apart from a bit of name-dropping that I need to add on to my CV, they're not jobs that I want to remember that much.
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If you are not fussy about the most of the moment shape or style, some name-dropping designers sell leftover stock to off-price stores and discounters.
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One does find, however, an apparent inability to review a disc without name-dropping, so as to appear a well-rounded and knowledgeable music critic, a man with an opinion worth valuing.
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This safely protects me from name-dropping, or even dropping-dropping, because the place was quite immaculate.
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‘The name-dropping of companies is a neat way of accruing ‘guilt by association’, while being a subtle backlash against the malling of America.’
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Costume rental shops report brisk business in trying to keep up with the insatiable demand of name-dropping nincompoops looking for funky fashions and gaudy gowns to wear for the event.
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It's just a bunch of pretentious name-dropping to make people think they're good via their influences.
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I won't be name-dropping, though!
The Sun
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The level of name-dropping is usually abysmal.