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Definition of Sue
Sue
To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.

To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.

To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.

To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.

To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.

To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.

To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.

To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.

To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.


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Sue Quotations
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
Will Rogers

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
Bill Maher

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
Charles Barkley

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
Carol Burnett

Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.
Conan O'Brien

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
Ron Chernow

The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal.
Emmanuelle Beart


You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
Cornelius Vanderbilt

I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'
Chris Matthews

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.
Colin Mochrie

That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.
Kelly Lynch

Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.
Caprice Bourret

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.
Audrey Tautou

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.
Birch Bayh

And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they're not going to - if the feds aren't going to do their job, well, then, I'm up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they're not - they're not enforcing the laws!
Jan Brewer

I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.
Piper Laurie

Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
Ilka Chase

If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced.
Russell Pearce

I decided there and then to sue the bastards.
Barry Sheene

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Sue Translations
sue in Dutch is een proces aanspannen tegen
sue in French is actionnez, actionnons, actionnent
sue in German is verklagen






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