What's the difference between batty and tatty?

Batty


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
  • (2) Violent relationships aren’t limited to black eyes so it’s vital women are empowered to deal with psychological abuse as well, Australian of the Year Rosie Batty says.
  • (3) Advocates for victims of domestic violence say they hope the inquest into the death of 11-year-old Luke Batty, who was assaulted and killed by his father, will identify the systemic failures that led to his death and expose a culture that too often blames victims.
  • (4) This was true of the judicial system too, with Anderson frequently challenging intervention orders so he could see Luke more frequently, but then not showing up to court and leaving Batty on her own to deal with the aftermath.
  • (5) Intervention orders don’t protect you,” Batty said.
  • (6) In Frankston magistrates court last April, Goldsbrough heard an application by Rosie Batty to have the conditions on an intervention order further tightened to prevent Anderson, her ex-partner, from seeing Luke.
  • (7) It's enough to drive the reality-based viewer batty.
  • (8) He described Anderson as “highly intelligent,” “irrational,” and “calculated” in the violence he carried out against his former partner, Rosie Batty and their son.
  • (9) When Anderson killed Luke, there were four warrants out for his arrest and he was facing 11 criminal charges, mostly related to family violence against his ex-partner and Luke’s mother, Rosie Batty .
  • (10) Police can now act on the spot to protect victims whenever and wherever family violence occurs.” A coronial inquest is under way into the murder of Luke Batty by his father in February on a cricket field in Tyabb, Victoria.
  • (11) The blame for the death of Luke Batty , who in February last year was killed after being hit with a cricket bat and stabbed on a field in Tyabb, Victoria, lies solely with his father, Greg Anderson, who was probably mentally ill, a coroner has found.
  • (12) Batty’s 11-year-old son was killed by his father, Greg Anderson, during a cricket training session in the Victorian town of Tyabb in February.
  • (13) Batty could only make decisions for her and Luke based on what she knew, but she was often in the dark.
  • (14) Batty told the ABC in July that when he died Anderson doted on Luke and seemed to be a caring father.
  • (15) In May, the Australian government announced the formation of an advisory panel on domestic and sexual violence, headed up by Australian of the year, Rosie Batty, and former Victorian police chief, Ken Lay.
  • (16) "My comments were in no way directed to or about Rosie Batty, who was scheduled to appear on the show for a separate segment about a fundraiser for her late son Luke.
  • (17) They are on the last paragraph, one hears #EUCO October 18, 2012 Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) Everybody in French briefing room is getting ready for #Hollande presser #euco October 18, 2012 My colleague David Batty suggests the EU needs to introduce chess match style time control to make decisions.
  • (18) A lack of communication between police officers and an overreliance on a computer database system meant opportunities to arrest Greg Anderson in the months before he killed his 11-year-old son Luke Batty may have been missed, Melbourne coroner's court has heard.
  • (19) I started to wonder if this was was ever going to be resolved,” Batty said.
  • (20) A confluence of factors led to this outcome, including increased news reporting of domestic violence incidents, a renewed focus by police to tackle the issue, political leadership to bring domestic violence to the fore and the eloquent and powerful advocacy of Rosie Batty as Australian of the year in 2015 .

Tatty


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of it has become a bit tatty over the years, but that's all part of the eccentricity and charm of the place.
  • (2) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
  • (3) Adopted as a political prisoner by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, he received thousands of cards and letters of support – a tiny sample jammed into a tatty brown envelope bearing the address of Russia's federal prisons service.
  • (4) He turned out instead in the same tatty old jackets and pale yellow shirts without a tie that he had had in his wardrobe for decades.
  • (5) Carlisle's fiancé, Trevor Harris, pulls out a tatty fiver from his pocket to draw his own comparisons.
  • (6) Burns is, according to the poet Edwin Muir, "to the respectable, a decent man; to the Rabelaisian, bawdy; to the sentimentalist, sentimental; to the socialist, a revolutionary; to the nationalist, a patriot; to the religious, pious …" So no doubt, this January at the start of referendum year , even diehard unionists will be searching around for words of his that seem to support their position and, where they can extrapolate them, sprinkling them around with abandon to salt their haggis, neeps and tatties at Burns suppers the length and breadth of the land.
  • (7) "Cataclysmic money" was spent razing extant if tatty inner city zones, with their diverse uses, their self-generated social and economic energy vibrating on crowded sidewalks.
  • (8) It is 10am and the tatty apartment blocks of southern Moscow are still shrouded in winter darkness as a slender young woman hurries towards the metro.
  • (9) The 12 panel members, all undecided voters, flagged up a wide range of issues, from affordable housing to cycling safety, from the tattiness of some parts of Taunton to the lack of a decent music venue that might tempt big bands further west than Bristol.
  • (10) Discussions at the central bank over whether to replace the tatty paper fiver with a tougher polymer version started in 2010.
  • (11) Travel talismans in the shape of little monsters are a collaboration with jewellers Tatty Devine.
  • (12) the more tatty the present licence-fee system looks.
  • (13) Nothing beats a whisky hangover like the uber-Scottish Tattie Stack – a pile of double potato scone and smoked bacon topped with Stornoway black pudding and a fried egg.
  • (14) You can see what Man City has done for the programme and the staff and the participants,” said Kelly, who had gone from taking sessions for six kids on tatty, ripped astroturf eight years ago to having use of City’s money-no-object Etihad Campus.
  • (15) Rosie Wolfenden, co-founder and managing director of jewellery brand Tatty Devine Rosie Wolfenden started the East London-based business alongside Harriet Vine in 1999.
  • (16) "My leg was fractured by a bullet," he said, lifting a tatty sheet to reveal a thick white plaster cast.
  • (17) In the tatty corridors of the school, Abdullah's bodyguard was showing off his hand to journalists – just half an hour earlier his right index finger had been dipped in supposedly indelible ink after he cast his vote.
  • (18) That it took two years for the first Observer Magazine to appear says much about the debate that went on in the paper's cramped and tatty offices in Tudor Street, just off Fleet Street.
  • (19) A recent front-page report in the Sun pictured tatty furniture and dodgy light fittings.
  • (20) But sometimes they are small, dark, have no cupboards, tatty sheets, and an unpleasant shared bathroom.