What's the difference between bashful and gashful?
Bashful
Definition:
(a.) Abashed; daunted; dismayed.
(a.) Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.
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.
Gashful
Definition:
(a.) Full of gashes; hideous; frightful.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Mott came out Ajao cut him across the face, leaving a three inch gash on his cheek.
(2) When he made Armando Iannucci laugh (Oliver worked on his 2003 topical review show Gash ), he told himself, "if that's all I get to do, if it doesn't work out then that's fine, that's more than enough.
(3) The lawyer friend with whom he exchanged the emails also referred to women as "gash".
(4) His torso was cut open, gashed deep to the navel, and the index finger of his right hand torn off.
(5) The crowd are warming to these game Koreans ... 27 min: Jong is down receiving treatment to an ugly gash on his thigh.
(6) He told the Associated Press that the photo he posted on his Twitter account, showing Saqer's body covered with bruises and gashes, was genuine.
(7) With the approach of Monday's meeting of a Premier League committee that will consider the matter, it has also emerged that the lawyer who is said to have referred to women as "gash" in the email exchange is under investigation by the City law firm that employs him.
(8) Gash says green army projects have also been brought into the area which give people work for about six months.
(9) The kindergarten teacher suffered a 5cm gash to her right hand, after intervening to stop a firework exploding in her three-year-old’s pram.
(10) The toilet is shared, and one night we bumped into a drunk man with a gash on his head, which was frightening for Evelina.
(11) The former Manchester United and Barcelona goalkeeper was having a fine game but, when recovering from a bad gash caused by a Navas challenge, Valdés could do nothing about City’s superb opener.
(12) Put their bodies in the way of the goal, gash their heads and get a Terry Butcher headscarf.
(13) With her four companions, who had linked arms around Birmingham in 1998 as part of the Jubilee Debt campaign, and travelled to Edinburgh in 2005 for Make Poverty History, Gash said it was important to keep banging the drum.
(14) At last Butcher, the white man's burden, was taken off but when Wright suffered a badly gashed head he needed six stitches but says he will be fit for the semi-final in a collision with Milla in the 85th minute, England had to reorganise.
(15) When I saw the gash in the skull, and the twisted spine, the hair stood up on the back of my neck."
(16) Others showed another man with a deep gash in his cheek and blood on the ground.
(17) • Catherine Needham, 21st Century Public Servant: Literature on leadership • Mental Health Cop: Evidence Based Policing • Tom Gash, Institute for Government: Decentralisation power plays • Zarathustra, Not So Big Society: Physical healthcare for people with mental health problems: Why do we so often get it wrong?
(18) There is another scar below one knee and a deep gash above one eye that has healed into a livid scar.
(19) Joanna Gash was Liberal MP for the area from 1996 until she retired at the 2013 election after being elected mayor of the Shoalhaven.
(20) In 1961, he broke a bone in his left ankle in a collision on the polo field and in 1963, again playing polo, he suffered a gash to his left arm.