(a.) Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
(a.) Expressive of awe or terror.
Example Sentences:
(1) This year, we have started building better tools for moderators and for admins to help keep subreddits and Reddit awesome, but our infrastructure is monolithic, and it is going to take some time.
(2) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
(3) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(4) The best way, perhaps, to sum up the awesome strength of this Spanish squad is to look at the category-A footballers who did not even start this match – a list that includes Pepe Reina, Cesc Fábregas and Fernando Torres, quite possibly the best goalkeeper, midfielder and striker in England last season.
(5) He's awesome," Rodman said of Kim – comments that were immediately attacked by those who tend to focus on North Korea's human rights record.
(6) The international players on the Spurs, and there are an awful lot of them, are representing their home countries which is kind of awesome to see.
(7) It is early days, and what is to say the people of Gateshead or Cardiff will be quite so forthcoming with the exclamations of "cool", "awesome" and "neat" as the audience in Oxford.
(8) We approached a community of women, members of a "platform for awesome women" called The Li.st , to find out.
(9) The exercise by a state of its most awesome power – the power to deprive a citizen of his life – must be accompanied by due process and complete transparency.
(10) He said he was grateful that the attack was bringing the community together and that it was “awesome honestly to be able to give people a hope that not everybody hates everybody”.
(11) Whenever the Austrian director shows one of his films in Cannes, I always come out thinking the others might as well just pack up and go home because they'll never reach his awesome heights of control and precision.
(12) Another curiosity - LeSean McCoy was held well under 100 yards that day, and he's awesome.
(13) This must be the most awesomely authoritarian project to emerge in western Europe since 1945.
(14) If you are trying to analyse a game, don’t stop at, “if I just added sniper rifles to this, it would be cool” – think about all the ways that adding sniper rifles could really hurt the game; try to understand design as a precarious balance, not just a shopping list of awesome shit.
(15) Maktabi cites responses "that range from 'I want to have this now because I want to try it with my boyfriend'", to "I want to write about the anthropological impact of this app on…", and adds that his favourites are "those anonymous messages that just say 'awesome'".
(16) It is just so awesome to see how the crowds are out there,” said Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, who added that she ended up stuck in her car after protests shut down traffic.
(17) The “biscuit” and “football” are the embodiment of the awesome, civilisation-ending power that will be put in Trump’s hands on 20 January.
(18) Camera Awesome The hit iOS photography app snapped onto Android this year, with just as impressive a range of photography features focused on taking better shots, not just on sharing them.
(19) "That's no criticism to girls who can wear a tiny dress and kill it – that's awesome.
(20) I think it's going to age well – when I played it yesterday it sounded fucking awesome.
Righteous
Definition:
(a.) Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may go some way to explaining why, even as his approval ratings fall off a cliff and some call for his impeachment, he sees no reason to course-correct, as he and a noisy caucus around him seem to become ever more self-righteous.
(2) [When he comes to a gig] it’s like a mate at school turning up.” Watson’s record of campaigns against phone hacking and establishment child abuse have also won him cross-party admiration and a public profile as a righteous crusader.
(3) Grass's new collection of poetry, Eintagsfliegen , published in Germany last week, describes Vanunu as a "role model and hero of our time" who "hoped to serve his country by helping to bring the truth to light", and calls on Israelis to "recognise ... as righteous" the man "who remained loyal to his country all those years", according to German reports .
(4) They – we – had come by bus, plane, train, car and hitch-hiker's thumb to demonstrate to ourselves and a watching world that there was a better, more righteous America than the Birmingham of Bull Connor who had set the dogs and fire hoses on black children.
(5) The Tea Party represents a serious strand in American public life – old-world fundamentalist in its exclusivity, self-righteousness and religious zeal.
(6) They are so convinced of their righteousness they cannot admit their faults.
(7) Skylight gives voice to private enterprise’s self-righteous hostility towards those who work in the public services.
(8) The FBI are sceptical that Pyongyang was responsible, and the government there denies that it had any involvement, even if it describes the hack as “a righteous deed”.
(9) With it would come “the Mother of Planes, which would hover over space for up to a year and then swoop down to rescue righteous black Muslims from the great white wasteland”.
(10) They converted and started to insult us, saying we do not believe in the oneness of Allah because of our love for saints.” Every Pakistani knows these preaching, self-righteous conservatives ... but you never expect them to indulge in violence Nadeem Farooq Paracha Like so many others, the Malik family were helped along in their religious journey by the experience of living as guest workers in the oil-rich Arab world.
(11) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
(12) Righteous indignation was tweeted and retweeted, celebrities piled on the pressure, pundits sharpened their quills.
(13) Increasingly, the paranoid defensiveness of the zealots cannot be reconciled with the righteous anger of those who believe every superlative performance must be suspect.
(14) True, as we were reminded last week, members of the EDL have miraculously survived all such conditioning; equally, these extremists now risk being righteously snubbed in Mens' Socks.
(15) It is, I imagine, the same sentiment a potential jihadist feels when he or she foolishly believes that they’re being righteously called upon to fight for the creation of an Islamic state, as if that might fix what are largely personal troubles.
(16) A muted reaction works better than the self-righteous explosion they are sometimes hankering after.
(17) Typical of the PC brigade - one Iraqi man gets beaten to death and they are down on you like a ton of righteous liberal bricks!
(18) In its proper context – of a US puffed up with righteousness and seized by Islamophobia – I think Homeland is a revolutionary piece of work, merely by having the courage to tell a story from the perspective of two characters who are questioning whether US policy in the Middle East is right.
(19) Thanks to recent appearances on Question Time and Newsnight , it is popular – righteous, even – to loathe David Starkey.
(20) It was a bad business but not as bad as the self-righteous Carswell or the tax-shy Tory press made it sound at the time.