(v. t.) To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are besotted, besoaked, beside ourselves with a love that dare not speak its name.
(2) Manchester United ,a club besotted with its flamboyant heritage, could not produce an evening's worth of flawless security.They fell short by seconds and so tumbled out of the Champions League on a 3 -2 aggregate.Sir Alex Ferguson's team had been ahead on the away-goal rule as this match entered its last minute.
(3) Now, I adore Michelle Obama and I am utterly besotted with her style, which is, contrary to what certain downmarket tabloids in this country have claimed , just a million times more fun than anything Kate née Middleton has ever worn in her life.
(4) It’s not been easy to get this far, and, even with Abbott out of the top job, it’s not impossible to imagine another Little Englander as prime minister, besotted with God and monarchy.
(5) The film ends with the theme of love, a conversation with French writer-director Joy Fleury and Fleury's daughter, spliced with footage from Max, Mon Amour , starring Rampling as a diplomat's wife besotted with a chimp.
(6) With besotted unrealism,” writes Raban, “Lauren idolised the countryside, the past and a class system that America had never experienced at first hand.” He could be described as a highly successful fantasist who turns his dreams into reality.
(7) JJ was 11 when he saw Star Wars and he is still besotted.” Daniels will be C-3PO for at least two more films: the eighth Star Wars movie begins shooting next January, the ninth in 2018.
(8) One group – the Sateré-Mawé – are particularly besotted with the game.
(9) In Jane Eyre she created the men she could not have in the sack: rude, rich, besotted Edward Rochester and beautiful, sadistic St-John Rivers.
(10) Besotted with Bob Geldof, then the lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, after meeting him at a party, she followed the band around on tour before beginning a relationship with him.
(11) Illustration: SCIAMMARELLA Boorish, bling-besotted buffoon, or statesman of Churchillian calibre?
(12) No one expects honourable conduct from an immoral institution, whose lecturers simpered like besotted lovers at Muammar Muhammad Gaddafi , while their masters pocketed Libyan money.
(13) People either have no idea who they are (for all the media attention and critical acclaim it has generated, Mad Men has a relatively small, if devoted, audience) or we are completely besotted by them.
(14) Boorish, bling-besotted buffoon may be pushing it, but it conveys the idea.
(15) Bowie’s stage name was also part of showbiz, which had besotted him from boyhood.
(16) The late Timothy Treadwell is so besotted with nature, he goes into raptures over the "gift" of a fresh bear turd in the movie, but Herzog dismisses his enthusiasm with memorable disdain.
(17) the mother-of-two had become "besotted" with Blanchard, who lived near Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
(18) Portland restaurant critic Karen Brooks at the farmers' market It's easy to fall in love with a city so besotted with food.
(19) He has always been besotted with her – and more than a little insecure.
(20) While our political overlords are besotted with Milton Friedman, on many issues the public seem to be lodged somewhere between John Maynard Keynes and Karl Marx.
Besotted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Besot
(a.) Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are besotted, besoaked, beside ourselves with a love that dare not speak its name.
(2) Manchester United ,a club besotted with its flamboyant heritage, could not produce an evening's worth of flawless security.They fell short by seconds and so tumbled out of the Champions League on a 3 -2 aggregate.Sir Alex Ferguson's team had been ahead on the away-goal rule as this match entered its last minute.
(3) Now, I adore Michelle Obama and I am utterly besotted with her style, which is, contrary to what certain downmarket tabloids in this country have claimed , just a million times more fun than anything Kate née Middleton has ever worn in her life.
(4) It’s not been easy to get this far, and, even with Abbott out of the top job, it’s not impossible to imagine another Little Englander as prime minister, besotted with God and monarchy.
(5) The film ends with the theme of love, a conversation with French writer-director Joy Fleury and Fleury's daughter, spliced with footage from Max, Mon Amour , starring Rampling as a diplomat's wife besotted with a chimp.
(6) With besotted unrealism,” writes Raban, “Lauren idolised the countryside, the past and a class system that America had never experienced at first hand.” He could be described as a highly successful fantasist who turns his dreams into reality.
(7) JJ was 11 when he saw Star Wars and he is still besotted.” Daniels will be C-3PO for at least two more films: the eighth Star Wars movie begins shooting next January, the ninth in 2018.
(8) One group – the Sateré-Mawé – are particularly besotted with the game.
(9) In Jane Eyre she created the men she could not have in the sack: rude, rich, besotted Edward Rochester and beautiful, sadistic St-John Rivers.
(10) Besotted with Bob Geldof, then the lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, after meeting him at a party, she followed the band around on tour before beginning a relationship with him.
(11) Illustration: SCIAMMARELLA Boorish, bling-besotted buffoon, or statesman of Churchillian calibre?
(12) No one expects honourable conduct from an immoral institution, whose lecturers simpered like besotted lovers at Muammar Muhammad Gaddafi , while their masters pocketed Libyan money.
(13) People either have no idea who they are (for all the media attention and critical acclaim it has generated, Mad Men has a relatively small, if devoted, audience) or we are completely besotted by them.
(14) Boorish, bling-besotted buffoon may be pushing it, but it conveys the idea.
(15) Bowie’s stage name was also part of showbiz, which had besotted him from boyhood.
(16) The late Timothy Treadwell is so besotted with nature, he goes into raptures over the "gift" of a fresh bear turd in the movie, but Herzog dismisses his enthusiasm with memorable disdain.
(17) the mother-of-two had become "besotted" with Blanchard, who lived near Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
(18) Portland restaurant critic Karen Brooks at the farmers' market It's easy to fall in love with a city so besotted with food.
(19) He has always been besotted with her – and more than a little insecure.
(20) While our political overlords are besotted with Milton Friedman, on many issues the public seem to be lodged somewhere between John Maynard Keynes and Karl Marx.