(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.
Fellow
Definition:
(n.) A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.
(n.) A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
(n.) An equal in power, rank, character, etc.
(n.) One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.
(n.) A person; an individual.
(n.) In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.
(n.) In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.
(n.) A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.
(v. t.) To suit with; to pair with; to match.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(2) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
(3) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
(4) Okawa, who became the world's oldest person last June following the death at 116 of fellow Japanese Jiroemon Kimura , was given a cake with just three candles at her nursing home in Osaka – one for each figure in her age.
(5) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
(6) Belmar and his fellow commanders spent the week before the grand jury decision assuring residents that 1,000 officers had been training for months to prepare for that day.
(7) We believe Oisin has a very exciting future at the BBC.” Clarkson, May and Hammond have signed up to launch a rival show on Amazon’s TV service , while Chris Evans is currently filming a new series of the BBC’s Top Gear show with fellow presenters Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Jordan.
(8) During a 1- to 9-year follow-up, central retinal vein occlusion developed in three fellow eyes (6%).
(9) However, internal divisions arose within the army, and by July 1985 Obote was once again on the ignominious road to exile, first to Kenya, and then to Zambia, where fellow independence leader Kenneth Kaunda allowed him to stay.
(10) But even if these proposals make it through the Scottish Labour party conference in Perth this weekend, they are unlikely to find much favour among fellow unionists or key opinion formers.
(11) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(12) In contrast, the activities were lower in the affected eyes of patients with herpetic keratitis and vernal conjunctivitis than in the fellow normal eyes.
(13) Behind the scenes, at least, it appears Anelka has proved a welcome addition to the club's ranks, with Berahino, who scored the visitors' third goal with a fizzing drive, praising the veteran as a positive influence on his fellow frontmen.
(14) The Telegraph's secret taping of Cable and fellow Liberal Democrat ministers while pretending to be concerned constituents has raised eyebrows in some media quarters, but the newspaper has claimed a "clear public interest" defence for its actions.
(15) The central hypothesis of our study, then, was that psychotic men, charged with misdemeanor offenses, would be incarcerated for significantly longer periods of time, prior to trial, than their nonpsychotic fellows.
(16) Members of the Ahmadiyya community, an Islamic sect, have faced persecution in other areas of Britain from some other Muslims who do not recognise them as fellow Muslims but Ahmedi said they had not had the same experience in Crawley – proof that it was a tolerant community.
(17) With the White House backing away and fellow Republicans openly considering successors, Mr Lott's hard-fought campaign to sit out the controversy appeared doomed.
(18) But Sanders, 73, rejected the idea his appeal is limited to voters on the left, boldly predicting on Wednesday that his message would appeal to both fellow independents and Republicans.
(19) December 3, 2013 And fellow presenters took the opportunity for some jokes at his expense.
(20) "But I suspect that some of my fellow Americans are indeed wondering who Buridan is, and what's up with his or her ass?