(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.
Morally
Definition:
(adv.) In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality.
(adv.) According to moral rules; virtuously.
(adv.) In moral qualities; in disposition and character; as, one who physically and morally endures hardships.
(adv.) In a manner calculated to serve as the basis of action; according to the usual course of things and human judgment; according to reason and probability.
Example Sentences:
(1) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
(2) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(3) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(4) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(5) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(6) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(7) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(8) This paper discusses the relationship between the psychoanalytic concept of character and the moral considerations of 'character'.
(9) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
(10) This continuing influence of Nazi medicine raises profound questions for the epistemology and morality of medicine.
(11) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
(12) But none of those calling on Obama to act carries the moral authority of Gore, who has devoted his post-political career to building a climate movement.
(13) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
(14) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
(15) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
(16) This is a moral swamp, but it's one the Salvation Army claims to be stepping into out of charity .
(17) In what appeared to be pointed criticism of increasingly firm rhetoric from Cameron on multinational tax engineering, Carr insisted tax avoidance "cannot be about morality – there are no absolutes".
(18) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
(19) A vigorous progressive physical and occupational therapy program producing tangible results does more for the patient's morale than any verbal encouragement could possibly do.
(20) We have a moral duty to conserve them and to educate people about their habitat, health and the threats they face."