Boner and Slight

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Boner noun - An embarrassing mistake.

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Slight and boner are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Slight" instead a noun "Boner".

Nearby Words: bone, boned, boning

Slight noun - An act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings.

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Boner and slight are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Boner" instead a noun "Slight".

The standards for stuff getting cut full stop back then were set by some very arbitrary means — if it gave John Trevelyan (British Board of Film Classification head from 1958 to 1971) a boner or made him sick (no matter how slight), it was cut.

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