What's the difference between bedazzled and bemused?
Bedazzled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Bedazzle
Example Sentences:
(1) Remember this, non-Theater People: if you think Broadway shows are too commercial, too bloated and bedazzled, remember that for every Ring of Fire or Tarzan there is a 90-minute play that takes place in a typewriter factory.
(2) In fact, the government itself had become bedazzled by the seemingly invincible rise in stock prices.
(3) Bedazzled by myths of Gallipoli, Australians neglect more pressing defence policy concerns.
(4) "Those who know the maths are bedazzled by the beauty of it.
(5) In a world where we are often too bedazzled by "innovation", they remind us of the power of getting the basics right.
(6) It's incredible – though not, perhaps, quite so punchy and addictive as her toast piled with anchovy paste, or her escarole salad, made of raw hearts and pickled outer leaves, both of which bedazzle with top notes of lemon, anchovy and parmesan.
(7) Since the US online retailing giant announced its deal to produce a new show with the old BBC Top Gear team, the figures have bedazzled viewers and analysts alike.
(8) • 14 East Pierce Street, phxpublicmarket.com PHOENIX CLASSICS Durant’s Facebook Twitter Pinterest Neon-bedazzling outside, windowless within, you have to access the scarlet-boothed, ruby-flocked Durant’s via the kitchen.
(9) Carney reveals that, once, he commented rather too loudly on a guy wearing bedazzled jeans at an American football game and ended up being chased into the arms of the nearest cop.
(10) This is also how the US Marine Corps have bedazzled Darwin, not by concealing their presence but by broadcasting it.
(11) Recalling the "piles and piles" of swag heaped upon herself and the other college girls who'd won summer jobs at a New York fashion magazine, Esther describes the gilt make-up kit and bedazzled sunglasses case she still keeps.
Bemused
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) September 20, 2015 There were bemused reactions from some politicians.
(2) He shrugs in bemusement at what is, to him, a meaningless compliment.
(3) Adoption and fostering: ‘The best thing you have ever done’ Read more The process of adopting disabled children was much harder when she first did it in the 1980s, Thorn says, adding that people tended to be bemused as to why any parent would volunteer for the additional work involved in bringing up children with varying needs.
(4) Back in Slovenia, Velikonja's situation is viewed with a degree of bemusement.
(5) I was bemused when Lord Bell suggested the police should interest themselves in the case of a fictional assassination of a person who was already dead.
(6) But the attack on TalkTalk has left researchers bemused.
(7) In Brussels, the reaction was more bemusement than amusement.
(8) Klitschko and a bemused audience watched on as Fury stalked the ring in full song, most of those present presumably wishing for it to stop.
(9) Twenty years ago, diaspora organisations such as Afford were among the first to draw attention to African diasporas' important roles in Africa's development, to bemused and sceptical audiences.
(10) Zile, a US-educated former finance minister generally seen as competent and moderate, is bemused.
(11) But Ian Gordon, banks analyst at Investec, said: "We were quite bemused listening to RBS management describe the business as 'ready for privatisation in 12 months'.
(12) It has a slightly bemused expression and wears its underpants over its trousers.
(13) Budd is bemused but not, you sense, displeased at the renewed media attention, despite the pain it caused before.
(14) Granted, there was the odd person who just didn’t get it, who asked bemused questions such as: “Who makes decisions?” (both of us), “Who should we email?” (try both of us), or “Who’s in charge?” (erm, both of us).
(15) Salmond refused to sit down, bringing proceedings to a halt, and looked bemused by the chaos he had created.
(16) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, appeared bemused when asked about the use of French as the language of Brexit: “If I am correctly informed, we are all entitled to speak in our native tongue.” Some EU officials were amused that French could be the language of Britain’s EU divorce.
(17) I’ve noticed on a number of occasions after leaving a snarky remark that they’ll comment again, not just bemused by the fact that I’ve taken offence, but wanting me to know that they like me.
(18) The Kazakh-stand sings a little louder and Kyrgios shakes his head in bemusement.
(19) After a lap of honour with her 11-month-old daughter in her arms, Pavey sounded almost bemused at her success.
(20) Part of their appeal was their apparent nonchalance, which tended to be mistaken for cool but was really, she says, just gauche bemusement.