(v. t. & i.) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Someone close to the trust told me in the autumn, "Both parties are bashing the BBC – it used to alternate – but the Tories may have done a bigger deal with [longstanding BBC foe Rupert] Murdoch than Labour did in the mid-90s.
(2) They complained that while in Washington Cameron launched another round of Brussels-bashing when he was supposed to be promoting the merits of a potential gamechanging trade pact between the EU and the US.
(3) Last week Lebedev posted photos from his Hampton Court bash on his personal LiveJournal blog .
(4) In the end, Miliband's measures have a psychological effect not dissimilar to the youth-bashing policies that have come before: student fees, cuts to the education maintenance allowance and housing benefit for the under-25s , and the prioritising of private landlords at the expense of affordable housing.
(5) But at least it was offering something positive, not just bashing the Tories, like everything else.” But for many, it was symbolic of a vague and complacent Labour campaign strategy that would, ultimately, doom them to one of their worst ever election defeats.
(6) There is the Usdaw reception in the Hilton on Sunday, the Communication Workers Union drinks on Monday and a Unison bash on Tuesday.
(7) They are the only party which has refused to be drawn into the immigrant-bashing competition with the others, and the only which proposes a vote in the general elections for EU citizens based on residency, rather than nationality.
(8) For example, it's fashionable to continually bash the Taliban regarding women, especially when a massive Western army has invaded, but remain silent over women who suffer under Western foreign policies (I posted a link of a young Syrian woman being strangled in public, but it was deleted instantly).
(9) Swing your gaze from the aged and infirm to your fit and healthy peers here and abroad embracing fascism and poor-bashing.
(10) But Panmure's Zonneveld isn't so bashful - - he's got a target price of 570p.
(11) Jindal bashed the debate moderators to a crowd of roughly 50, saying: “The mainstream media lost the debate.” He went on to say that the GOP should take “a free market approach” to debates and “have as many debates as possible and let candidates decide which ones they should go to”.
(12) OFFICE COST PER DESK $10,430 pa Banker-bashing rating ■ ZURICH PROS The financial sector accounts for 6% of all jobs in Switzerland and 16% of tax revenue.
(13) If it means bashing your head against the wall, or whatever.
(14) I thought bashing bureaucrats was purely my domain.
(15) Theresa May has been accused of irresponsible “civil service bashing” by the mandarins’ union after using an interview to criticise Whitehall staff.
(16) But I will also defend my record, and will not take lectures on “the politics of division” from parties that bash immigrants and those on welfare benefits, or from politicians disgraced by expenses scandals, discredited by lies told to justify war, and intent on scapegoating the vulnerable in our society for an economic crisis caused by the most powerful.
(17) Downing Street has refused to release the guest list for this year's bash at the private Hurlingham members' club in Fulham, west London, but the gleaming Rolls-Royces and Jaguars streaming through the gates gave a hint of the wealthy passengers heading inside.
(18) Capitalism took a bashing in 2015: Corbynomics , the rise of anti-austerity parties Podemos and Syriza, Hillary Clinton slamming our culture of short-termism, COP21 protests and more.
(19) For many years afterwards, the family bashed their heads against a brick wall of indifference and worse.
(20) Debate moderators Anderson Cooper, Dana Bash, and Juan Carlos Lopez are sure to ask some tough questions of the candidates.
Bask
Definition:
(v. t.) To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
(v. t.) To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.
Example Sentences:
(1) It followed an unusually wet August, which gave Next and other clothes retailers a good start to the new season but sales of coats and other winter goods have been tough since as many parts of the country have basked in warm sunshine.
(2) For Hague, basking in unaccustomed praise for his "decisive action" in the Commons, this was the successful conclusion of a piece of unorthodox diplomacy – which subtly avoided the use of gunboats.
(3) Instead, he headed to City Hall, attending Mayor's Question Time to watch Johnson bask in the sunshine to which he himself had been accustomed.
(4) On such occasions, one has the distinct sense of a festival simultaneously basking in the limelight while wearing a clothes peg on its nose.
(5) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
(6) In the bask of the incandescent, you are prone to believe that human beings are essentially good, that tomorrow will be a better day, that love will triumph.
(7) Polysaccharide aminoaryl ethers capable of binding to proteins by azocoupling present special interest in view of their utilization as modifying baskings.
(8) Just as Brown was basking in a rare upturn in the polls following Barack Obama's visit, he has been derailed.
(9) I wish that I could just bask in the knowledge that the pope and the people in the pews share many of my views for a transformed church.
(10) When Vladimir Putin stepped into the ring at Olimpisky stadium in Moscow after a martial arts fight at the weekend, he might have been expecting to bask in the glory of the Russian Fedor Emelianenko's victory over the American Jeff Monson.
(11) "Colleagues at the trust took the decision to conduct it last summer, when the corporation was basking in the Olympic afterglow – that was before the events of last autumn about which much has been written.
(12) Thus Page 3 was able to bask, for the briefest of moments, in its almost accidental association with hippie culture and the sexual revolution.
(13) There are Rumpole societies of lawyers basking undeservedly in his popularity from Los Angeles to Perth.
(14) The size of the telencephalon, 34% of the total brain, equals that in some other sharks, whereas the cerebellum, 30% of the total brain in the basking shark, is significantly larger than in any other shark investigated.
(15) De Bruyne’s finish was immaculate, picking out the bottom corner after Fernandinho’s layoff, and City were left to bask in the warm afterglow of their finest European night of the modern era.
(16) On a clear day, the Firth of Clyde looks resplendent from here, basking “gaily in the sunny beam”.
(17) Spring is a great time to visit – Chengdu is basking in a balmy 20C, and everywhere trees are in blossom.
(18) These high-octane bangers were among the show's strongest moments, allowing both performers to bask in their own unapologetic confidence.
(19) The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) only covers three shark species: whale shark, basking shark and great white shark.
(20) With incredible complacency, politicians from both sides of parliament basked in the glory and reacted smugly when the US and the eurozone hit a brick wall.