(n.) One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
Example Sentences:
(1) This doesn’t mean they have a moral justification for continuing to produce fuels they know are changing the climate, but morals and markets aren’t necessarily natural bedfellows.
(2) In any case, far from being strange bedfellows, criminality and politics have always cohabited quite happily.
(3) Hikers and mountain bikers aren’t always the best of bedfellows, and the same applies in the snow – where the two are allowed to coexist, there is tension between fatbikers and cross-country skiers.
(4) As for the controversial proximity to the Mail, he says: "The Independent and the Mail wouldn't be natural bedfellows, but to be in a building where really dynamic journalism is being produced has got to yield some benefits, both in the commercial sense and as best practice.
(5) Yet to do this, one must try to make bedfellows of fashion and practicality.
(6) Arab Iraq was thus given a fragile and dysfunctional government, and the Kurds facilitated this, ensuring that a government of national unity was actually a government of unlikely bedfellows driven by suspicion.
(7) Wonga shows perils of artistic licence Art and commerce have always been necessary bedfellows – at least from the artist's point of view.
(8) Football and civilised behaviour are not always the most natural of bedfellows.
(9) In the past few years, the movement against LGBT rights in Africa has brought together very strange bedfellows, African Muslim and Christian preachers with strong backing from rightwing American Christian organisations .
(10) Asked if he believed Hitler knew about the Holocaust, he would only say: “That is how I imagine it.” The Congress of the New Right’s hardline economic views actually make it an uneasy bedfellow for Ukip on immigration issues.
(11) Unease over the government's economic policy is creating some unlikely bedfellows.
(12) Though much of that thinking could not reasonably be characterised as what the CMD report calls an “extreme rightwing agenda”, the tech and telecoms companies' inclusion on the list of funders puts them alongside some strange bedfellows.
(13) If the world within man and the world between men are interrelated, psychotherapy and sociology--although at times uneasy bedfellows--have much to give each other.
(14) The simple explanation is the hackneyed cliche that politics makes strange bedfellows, and that Pickles felt obliged to defend his new partners in the European Conservatives and Reformists group of the European parliament in Strasbourg.
(15) I think they have always been that way, but you have to be businesslike and professional and you have to work with people who aren't your natural bedfellows and that is being grownup in politics."
(16) Catherine Bearder, a Liberal Democrat MEP, said: “Many in the UK will be horrified to discover that the Conservative party’s bedfellows in Europe have such extreme and unpleasant views.
(17) The media and the government, you suggest, are conspiring bedfellows (politics is conducted as a branch of advertising) which disseminate certain knowledges and selected truths.
(18) The music was recorded with the help of regular Nine Inch Nails bedfellows Alan Moulder, Atticus Ross and Alessandro Cortini, as well as King Crimson's Adrian Belew and the Dresden Dolls' Brian Viglione.
(19) The debate between Apple and the US Department of Justice had made for very strange bedfellows.
(20) In the ancient as in the modern world, gambling and graft have always been sporting competition’s bedfellows.
Bedmate
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) When all the outlandish trappings of an extraordinary event have begun to fade and gather dust in the memory, when we have grown vague about the wheeling and dealing involved, about how ethnic pride and financial avarice became ardent bedmates, when we scarcely smile at the remembered sight of Bundini Brown planting a kiss and a “Float like a butterfly” biro on President Mobutu or the more appealing but equally unlikely spectacle of an attractive young black woman breast-feeding her baby in the third row ringside, where accommodation cost $250 a place without mention of meals – when that distant day comes, what will remain utterly undiminished is the excitement of Muhammad Ali’s performance.