(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.
Smitten
Definition:
(p. p.) of Smite
() p. p. of Smite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rachel Cooke 7 THAI FOOD David Thompson (Pavillion Books, 2002) Buy it Australian chef David Thompson first went to Thailand almost accidentally when some holiday plans fell through, and was smitten by the country and its food.
(2) Molly Smitten-Downes, United Kingdom Facebook Twitter Pinterest At first glance, Molly Smitten-Downes' reassuringly double-barrelled name and cheery Leicestershire visage makes her the ideal Eurovision voting option for viewers desperate for Britain's immediate withdrawal from the EU.
(3) Vogue describes Miliband as smitten too, but in a more buttoned-up way: "She applies intellect but also psychology to the dossiers that she's studying," he said of Clinton.
(4) Some were so smitten by the island that they bought homes there, including Joseph P Kennedy, father of future president John F Kennedy.
(5) We were instantly smitten and eventually moved in together, sharing 18 happy years.
(6) Sharif later admitted that he had briefly imagined himself in love with Streisand, and also recalled being smitten by Ava Gardner , his co-star in Mayerling (1968), in which he brought a suitable intensity to the doomed Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, and Gardner, with some incongruity, played his mother.
(7) I don’t know how long I shall survive, having been smitten with this disease.
(8) As the film opens, Plath (played with consummate Gwyneth Paltrowness by Gwyneth Paltrow) has been smitten by the brash, handsome Hughes (played with verve and dash by Daniel Craig, who resembles the young Richard Burton, but seems a bit old for these scenes).
(9) Six years after the Steve Earle-produced Day After Tomorrow , she is making tentative plans to record another album (“I’m constantly aware of the need to be current and to make sure that the next album is always better than the last one.”) There is also the concert circuit, with which she is currently smitten.
(10) This year's British entrant, Molly Smitten-Downes, managed slightly better, her 40 points earning her a 17th place.
(11) Meanwhile Little Em'ly had been quite forgotten, as I was now smitten by Mr Spenlow's daughter, Dora, the most adorable and stupid girl you could ever hope to meet.
(12) I was smitten from the moment I saw her and swore to myself she was the girl for me, even though I was only 10 years old.
(13) Fox and Pollan met when she played his girlfriend on Family Ties and he was helplessly smitten when she told him off one day for being rude.
(14) Smitten-Downes had been among those tipped to place highly with self-penned song Children Of The Universe and wowed a lively audience in this year's host city of Copenhagen.
(15) Madonna Ashcombe House, Tollard Royal, Wiltshire The American superstar was smitten by the 18th-century, six-bedroom manor house when she first visited it, and immediately offered £10m for the 1,200-acre estate.
(16) The restaurants in New York are quite magnificent and I've met this charming actress called Ethel with whom I'm smitten.
(17) They fell easily into conversation and before long, Jenny was smitten.
(18) This interpretation leads us to the conclusion that, at the time of writing, Gramsci was in full possession of all his mental faculties, although worried by his long imprisonment and smitten by a profound disillusion as a result of the deformation of the "socialist" system.
(19) Smitten by the films' star, Kimberly Williams, he asked her to appear in the video; they fell in love, married in 2003, and have two sons.
(20) Stannis is quietly smitten, as most men would be by a malevolent force with great boobs spilling out of a corset whose hobbies include shagging, bleak threats and setting fire to massive piles of stuff on beaches.