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beaten path
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burdensome
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challenging
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choicy(adjective, painstaking)
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cinereal(clay, grey, heather)
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clay(grey, heather)
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comely(adjective, modest, polite, decent, moral)
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comme il faut(expression, adjective, modest, polite, decent)
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conforming(adjective, modest, polite, decent, moral)
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conscientious
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convention(noun, style, rule, practice, system)
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cooking with gas(expression, idiom, clay, grey, heather)
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correct(adjective, polite, decent, clay, mannerly)
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correctly
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courteous(modest, polite, prim)
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critical
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de rigueur(expression, adjective, modest, polite, decent)
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dead center(expression, dead-on, dead-center)
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dead on(expression, precise, accurate, clay, grey)
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demure(adjective, modest, polite, decent, moral)
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