(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.
Infatuation
Definition:
(n.) The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rome in The Great Beauty Released 2013, directed by Paolo Sorrentino Facebook Twitter Pinterest I can’t think of any city so drenched with infatuated love, and yet also a kind of disillusion and disenchantment, as the Rome of Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty .
(2) Beyond court 73 Twitter was abuzz with idle speculation that one of the women lawyers present was clearly infatuated with Grant, effortlessly glamorous and with his spectacles off.
(3) But so far, I perceive a threatening mix of arrogance, self-infatuation and condescension.” It is tempting to see Podemos as a well-planned operation by a group of talented academics, following a populist script written by a line of radical thinkers, but that would be too simple.
(4) Once I got back to the UK, I was infatuated with finding similar adventures here.
(5) Returning to London in my 40s from a long spell abroad brought the shock of London house prices but also an infatuation with Brighton with its sea views, eccentric shops and green surrounding hills.
(6) "US fans of The Office could rally for this one," it admitted, "although its exuberant, boundless cynicism will test the demand for political satire in an Obama-infatuated America."
(7) Sure: it's got daddy issues, it's dominated by male characters, but it allows Lea Thompson as Lorraine to all but steal the show, hamming it up both as a chain-smoking, vodka-sinking washout and an infatuated teen (plus, in II, a surgically enhanced doormat, and, in III, an oirish farmer's wife).
(8) Dr Bill Knocke, head of the civil engineering faculty whose staff and students were among the dead, said he understood that Cho had gone on Monday morning to the dormitory of a female student, Emily Hilscher, 19, who was not his girlfriend but with whom he may have been infatuated.
(9) We failed to notice that our runaway infatuation with the sleek toys produced by the likes of Apple and Samsung – allied to our apparently insatiable appetite for Facebook, Google and other companies that provide us with "free" services in exchange for the intimate details of our daily lives – might well turn out to be as powerful a narcotic as soma was for the inhabitants of Brave New World.
(10) The concept of pathological infatuation or what this author has termed the Blue Angel syndrome is presented.
(11) Born in Swansea, he carved out a career on BBC Radio Wales, before a move to television in the form of Marion and Geoff, a mock-umentary series in which he played a divorced taxi driver still infatuated with his ex-wife; Coogan was the associate producer.
(12) An infatuation that, naturally, died long before Erasure sang about "l'amour" and just as the first crop of Generation Y-ers were beginning school.
(13) So let's remove those rose-tinted ski goggles and take a closer look at the objects of our infatuation … Protesters clash with police at an asylum centre near Copenhagen in 2008.
(14) Maps to The Stars by David Cronenberg is a competition movie avowedly about that most superficially attractive but difficult and elusive subject: celebrity and our current infatuation with it.
(15) The pair of them were so instantly infatuated with each other's possibilities that on their second meeting they planned the Smiths in detail.
(16) And embarrassing as it may be for those of us infatuated with the latest technology to admit, it is with the difficult case especially that old-fashioned technology so often must be depended upon.
(17) Now he's at it again, with another part from which Harry Potter would run a mile: in Kill Your Darlings , he plays gay beat poet Allen Ginsberg , sexually infatuated with the dangerous Lucien Carr .
(18) Joyce suspected her husband was having an affair with Deng, with whom he was reportedly infatuated.
(19) "He's got an earring, he wears leather and you're totally infatuated with him.
(20) Why am I – why is everyone else she knew – so infatuated with Yusor?