(n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
(n.) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
(n.) Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.
(a.) Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) But among that bedlam, there has been one traditional, homegrown success story – a debut album by a young British band that has, in the UK at least, outsold Kanye's Yeezus , Miley's Bangerz and Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines .
(2) Where other sources of Georgian entertainment, from public dissections and freak shows to Bedlam and the Foundling Hospital, have, for one reason or another, fallen by the wayside, the exhibition of exotic beasts remains popular enough for someone such as Gill, a self-described “animal nutritionist”, to make a fortune out of it.
(3) He bolted out from behind the desk, through the lobby, down a set of steps and outside, arriving into bedlam.
(4) Amid the melee, Morsi and his colleagues rejected the authority of the court before the bedlam forced the presiding judge to adjourn proceedings until 8 January.
(5) The first object confronting the modern visitor is a towering mahogany and brass collection box with a brutally frank inscription: “Pray remember the poor lunatics.” It dates from the days of the harsh Georgian regime depicted in William Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress, when beating in the original Bedlam was regarded as a therapeutic shock for the mentally ill. Curator Victoria Northwood said she felt it was important to tackle the hospital’s history head on.
(6) Cue bedlam in the stands, with those Hammers fans in attendance relishing seeing a side that had continued to show spirit and determination during this contest getting some reward.
(7) It was the prompt for bedlam and a richly deserved victory, which might just be Ireland’s finest of all time.
(8) These were families coming out [to protest] so it was just bedlam at the beginning.
(9) José Mourinho , hands sunk deep into his coat pockets, was unmoved in his technical area as the hush gave way to bedlam all around.
(10) Such bedlam might have caused an overdose of glee among Tottenham fans.
(11) Schieffer was the night police reporter that evening, and d escribed in an article for Poynter how, amid the newsroom bedlam in the wake of Kennedy's shooting, he grabbed a ringing phone to find a woman ask: "Is there anyone there who can give me a ride to Dallas?"
(12) As you go in you see the original large stone gatepost sculptures that graced the entrance of Hogarth’s Bedlam when he depicted people on Sunday afternoon tours to stare at the lunatics.
(13) Billy bookcases and the definitive meatball – inside the new Ikea museum Read more Rory Firth, 40, from Maidenhead, said: “It was just bedlam.
(14) The unfortunate Bell however was flung into Bedlam and people came to laugh at him.
(15) With its severe and growing problems with traffic jams, Mumbai certainly sets an international benchmark for what the Economist has labelled “traffic bedlam” .
(16) When the 23-year-old looked again and realised he had registered, up he rose to his feet and what followed was bedlam, as high emotion gripped the Stade de France.
(17) It was an epic contest and, when it was all done, the final explosion of joy and bedlam told us Brazil had made it to the quarter-finals and the World Cup would not have to go on without its hosts.
(18) It was in the bedlam of the away‑team dressing room, as the European Cup was being hoisted between delirious players bouncing for joy amid the piles of soiled kit and scattered bottles of energy drink, that Roman Abramovich delivered a pledge.
(19) These are the subtleties Hodgson can tweak before the “derby” frenzy predicted by Gareth Bale for Lens on Thursday, when the bedlam will hopefully be confined to the pitch and the game better suited to the Premier League.
(20) But Jenkins had a clean look, and he leapt, and flung, and the backboard glowed blood-red and the buzzer blared and the ball dropped clean through the net, and there was instant bedlam as Villanova jumped and danced at the staggering wonder of their victory, and Carolina’s players walked off straight away, because what else could they do?
Uproar
Definition:
(n.) Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.
(v. t.) To throw into uproar or confusion.
(v. i.) To make an uproar.
Example Sentences:
(1) But perhaps the most striking example of how differently much of the world sees London – and the importance of religion – from the way the city plainly sees itself came from the US, where Donald Trump caused uproar with a call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
(2) Bayern’s game in Saudi Arabia also coincided with the uproar over the flogging in the country of activist and blogger Raif Badawi .
(3) Imagine the uproar if a Labour chancellor had planned to borrow another £150bn to invest in jobs, infrastructure, training, childcare and house-building.
(4) In addition to new jobs, the £50m will fund significant investment in training and new systems to improve customer service.” Centrica and other big energy companies are under political and regulatory pressure over their treatment of UK energy customers, reflecting public uproar over the cost of household bills.
(5) In Cecil the lion fallout, hunters defend Walter Palmer and fear big game bans Read more The move comes after an American dentist killed a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe last month in an allegedly illegal hunt, setting off a worldwide uproar.
(6) Hitler had become chancellor of Germany just 10 days earlier, and the vote provoked uproar.
(7) Whereas the founding fathers of democratic South Africa preached non-racialism, Malema has caused uproar with his singing of the protest song Shoot the Boer‚ a reference to Afrikaner farmers.
(8) Adding to controversy, an MP caused an uproar after by telling parliament alcohol and revealing uniforms should be banned from all Malaysian flights to avoid "Allah's wrath".
(9) The incident sparked uproar, but the circumstances which led the schoolgirls to trek outside at night are not unusual in India .
(10) Burke and the shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, were ejected from parliament during the subsequent uproar over the speaker’s handling of the matter.
(11) Local media said the crash revived memories of an accident in 2004, when a CH-53 helicopter from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma crashed into a nearby university building, triggering a huge anti-base uproar although there were no civilian injuries and the crew survived.
(12) The judge who has allowed a financier to bring a secret libel suit against his own sister-in-law defended his decision to make all the parties anonymous on Wednesday, in the wake of the uproar over superinjunctions and the outing of footballer Ryan Giggs in defiance of court orders.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ahmed Mohamed wants to move schools after arrest for homemade clock A social media uproar ensued, with people questioning whether Ahmed would have been arrested had he not been Muslim.
(14) Spicer linked those comments to the rightwing uproar over a recent New York production of Julius Caesar in which the Roman leader was dressed to resemble Trump, and, as in every production since 1599, assassinated.
(15) If the budget does not bring about any further funding increase, there would be uproar.” The junior doctor and GP trainee Dr Jeeves Wijesuriya said the demonstration was a chance for the government to plot a new course for the NHS.
(16) That provoked uproar in the press room and was eventually rescinded.
(17) Lost in the uproar caused in some circles by the condemnation of Israeli settlements embodied in Kerry’s speech and in UN security council resolution 2334 is the fact that, in line with previous US policies on Palestine, both ignore basic rights of the Palestinian people, and the requirements of international law, of justice and of equity.
(18) In the ensuing political uproar, Mrs Thatcher was unable to deny that she had been well aware of the way her son stood to gain from her conflict of interest.
(19) Police arrested 31 as they clashed with protesters in another night of gunfire, teargas and chaos in Ferguson 10 days after the shooting of an unarmed teenager ignited an uproar over race in America.
(20) Amid the uproar of his emerging social activism, Kaepernick is still trying to win a job with the 49ers less than four years after leading them to the Super Bowl.