What's the difference between bemused and giddy?

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.

Giddy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy.
  • (superl.) Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice.
  • (superl.) Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.
  • (superl.) Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless.
  • (v. i.) To reel; to whirl.
  • (v. t.) To make dizzy or unsteady.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Twenty workers promptly developed symptoms (e.g., nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, giddiness, lassitude, headache, cough, shortness of breath) that typically lasted a few hours but persisted 1-2 days in 7 cases.
  • (2) Everyone wants to forget that Britain’s biggest bank, HSBC, was caught, and admitted, laundering Chapo Guzmán’s giddy profits , as was Wachovia bank , a subsidiary of Wells Fargo: hundreds of billions of dollars of Sinaloa cartel blood money, handled with effective impunity inasmuch as no one in either instance was prosecuted, let alone jailed – indeed, most were promoted.
  • (3) In some parts of the country, then, the giddiness sown by a hyped-up recovery and rising house prices – up by an annual average of 7.7% , according to Halifax, with George Osborne's Help To Buy scheme having played its part – is evidently doing its work.
  • (4) Giddiness, nausea and vomiting were the common adverse effects observed.
  • (5) In the event it was Campbell who took the gold, producing a display of controlled long range aggression to secure Team GB's 28th gold medal of these rather giddy Games.
  • (6) More giddy blog posts may lie ahead: All Things Digital claimed in October that Snapchat is in talks about yet another funding round valuing the company at a startling $3.6bn , with a lead investor potentially being "a strategic party from Asia" – later fingered as internet firm Tencent.
  • (7) The mother country would have a hard time refuting the charge that the English just don't take the international game seriously, however giddy St George turns every couple of years.
  • (8) Perhaps giddy with the excitement of it all, Djokovic produces a couple of unforced errors to give Nadal a break point.
  • (9) The giddy rise in house prices, too, should be examined skeptically.
  • (10) Hypertension (n = 50) and the related symptom of headache (n = 40), dyspnea (n = 24), and giddiness (n = 20) were common at presentation.
  • (11) The giddiness was characterized by a late onset and was usually present even at 24 hours.
  • (12) Tuesday Thornberry and her staff have recently been upgraded to a new parliamentary office, and are giddy about it.
  • (13) Photograph: Dreamworks Yelchin wasn’t as classically handsome as Depp; he was easy on the eye without having traditional film-star looks, and I don’t recall his name cropping up in the sort of messageboards bursting with giddy declarations of devotion to Tom Hiddleston or Tom Hardy or Idris Elba.
  • (14) I was so giddy with success that I stayed for a few drinks and ended up missing my train home.
  • (15) The authors' findings permit a conclusion that the risk of ethmozine overdosage leading to undesirable side effects (dryness in the mouth, noise in the ears, a 'net' in eyes; giddiness, nausea, vomiting) is very high when routine ethmozine doses are administered to patients with grave (Stages II-III) impairments of liver function; this is explained by (1) reduced rate of ethmozine biotransformation, this resulting in a heightened concentration of the drug in the blood, and (2) by an increase of the drug free fraction concentration due to its reduced ability to bind with the blood plasma proteins.
  • (16) She shows us photographs of him as a giddy young boy, as a proud paratrooper, and letters in which he talks about how well he’s doing in training.
  • (17) At last, as the sun dipped behind snow-capped mountains, we rolled down Leadville’s cool, still Main Street, the lack of oxygen making us feel giddy.
  • (18) A giddy celebration of the “new politics” this conference may officially be, but it is also an old-style beauty contest in which the party is already sizing up the potential contenders for the succession should Uncle Jez fall under a composite motion.
  • (19) I mean, you weren’t so giddy when The Container Store started trading last week .
  • (20) A golden moon hung over the city, and as night deepened the crowd lounging off Hope Street grew giddy.