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junque
 n.— «There is junk mail and there is junque mail, the classy kind whose entertainment value far exceeds its bulk rate status.» —“Junk Mail Delivers Odd Offer” by J.E. McReynolds Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) Sept. 26, 1989. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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