(v.) Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.
(v.) Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.
(v. t.) To make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, less flashy politicians such as Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears were the ones who made it to the top.
(2) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(3) Two days later, another letter was dispatched to Blears, this time from Hank Dittmar, the chief executive of the foundation and an aide to the prince.
(4) Should the NEC move to support this, ministers such as the communities secretary, Hazel Blears, would be vulnerable.
(5) The Home Office minister Hazel Blears yesterday welcomed the report, and said: "We have always acknowledged that the CRB's initial performance was unacceptable.
(6) But axing Hazel Blears, the feisty communities secretary, would be more difficult.
(7) Intelligence and security committee report: the key findings Read more The leading Labour member on the ISC, Hazel Blears, said: “What we’ve found is that the way in which the agencies use the capabilities they have is authorised, lawful, necessary and proportionate.
(8) Earlier, Brown promised that Labour's national executive would deselect MPs who had broken the rules of parliament, describing the expenses claims of his communities secretary, Hazel Blears, and the Labour MP for Luton South, Margaret Moran, as "completely unacceptable" – his harshest condemnation yet.
(9) The Labour MP for Chorley, Lindsay Hoyle, said grassroots members were angry at the "treacherous behaviour" of senior figures such as former communities secretary Hazel Blears.
(10) "The aim of the event," he told Blears, "is to frame a positive way forward to respond to Gordon Brown's recent, and extremely timely, call for the construction of new ecotowns throughout Britain, using the model of HRH the Prince of Wales's development at Poundbury in Dorset."
(11) Ed Miliband, the Cabinet Office minister and a figure close to Brown, was sceptical, as was Hazel Blears, a former party chair.
(12) Action already taken : Blears said she had done nothing wrong but paid back £13,000 in CGT.
(13) But without the private correspondence being released, there was no way the public could assess the extent and influence of Charles's lobbying, said Paul Richards, adviser to the former communities secretary Hazel Blears and health secretary Patricia Hewitt.
(14) I am assured that Blears, invited to write by the Observer as part of its European election coverage, did not intend her article to be taken as a "savaging" of Brown.
(15) His Blairite tag could be another boon to the rebel movement: it has been easy enough to dismiss Blears's resignation as being about expenses and bad timing, but Lord Mandelson is unlikely to be able to attack Purnell's motives.
(16) Blears rocked the party when she told Brown, at about 9.30am last Wednesday, that she wanted to leave the government for "personal reasons".
(17) Hazel Blears, the senior Labour member of parliament's intelligence and security committee , said it was right that a debate was under way in Britain over the powers of the security services, adding that the inquiry into agencies' powerful new capabilities would go wherever the evidence takes it.
(18) Howarth says it's almost as if Blears has read his speech in advance.
(19) "Hazel Blears wore a brooch saying, 'Rocking the boat'.
(20) However, Rifkind’s own recent privacy issues had made that tricky; empty-chairing himself might have set an awkward precedent that the prime minister would not have appreciated, so he settled for looking grumpy and morose while Hazel Blears ran the show.
Bleary
Definition:
(a.) Somewhat blear.
Example Sentences:
(1) He and his friend, with bleary red eyes, said they had camped out and "woken in the middle of the night, with a strange light".
(2) Ask me tomorrow morning when I’m bleary-eyed leaving here, when it’s hopefully finished and ready to go.” The song features lyrics reworked to reflect the Ebola crisis in the second and third verses and refer to the risks of cross-infection from comforting Ebola victims.
(3) When most of us utter the word detox, it’s usually when we’re bleary eyed and stumbling out of the wrong end of a heavy weekend.
(4) Just a bleary-eyed, bespectacled Gotti being led out of the door of the home he shares with his wife and six children.
(5) It was only the hardcore English left, long after the celebrations had ended, hungover, bleary and grumpy.
(6) The film, Brooks said, "is riddled with flaws, from its bleary lack of focus to its glaring lack of chemistry [between the leads].
(7) Those bleary-eyed souls who shuffled into Tuesday's breakfast discussion between the Tory party leader and his new favourite thinker, Nassim Nicholas Taleb , were surely not expecting the entertainment that followed.
(8) Get up at 9:34 when The Employed are already ploking themselves, bleary-eyed, in front of their screens.
(9) Juncker emerged bleary eyed shortly after 3am to attack Tusk, saying: “I protest against this working method.
(10) By dawn, marines were storming apartment 401 to pick up a bleary-eyed and shirtless Chapo before he had time to react.
(11) So hours before my wife fearlessly tackles the school run, I'm scampering down the road, damp-haired and bleary-eyed, to intercept the 4.40am Oxford Tube coach on its way to London.
(12) Ashes dominance breeds... bleary-eyed late night cricket viewers Both Sky Sports and ITV4 appear to be benefiting from England dominating Australia in the second Ashes Test match in Adelaide.
(13) Photograph: Channel 4 Suggested by LtotheW No uni experience would be complete without the obligatory stoner housemate who emerges from their room bleary eyed at 1am to grab some cereal and shuffle back to their hazy room.
(14) Hot flushes, like babies, can keep you up all night, but it’s a confident woman who’ll volunteer that as an excuse for being bleary-eyed in morning meetings.
(15) Instead, we're waking up mid-afternoon, bleary eyed and unemployed, at our parents' house.
(16) I read it at a single sitting – about a week, including bleary breaks for eating and sleeping.
(17) It was an early start on Saturday for pop stars old and young who began arriving in an assortment of gleaming, tinted-window vehicles at the Notting Hill recording studios in west London just after 9am, some more bleary-eyed than others.
(18) Last Friday, having spent a long night at a count in Falkirk, I whiled away a bleary-eyed afternoon on George Square in Glasgow.
(19) One of my bleary countrymen turned to another and said: "They sound like they're angry all the time, don't they?
(20) He recalls coming out of his tiny LA apartment, bleary from playing video games, and looking up to see an enormous billboard with his face on it.