(n.) To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.
(n.) To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
(n.) To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
(v. t.) To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’ve seen a mind-boggling 49 goals , compared with 25 at the same stage in 2010 – that's almost double, by my calculations There have been only two draws (six in 2010) A remarkable six teams have come from behind to win (Brazil, Holland, Ivory Coast, Switzerland, Costa Rica and Belgium).
(2) Yousef later writes the following mind-boggling sentences: “But we certainly are less capable than the Israelis of manipulating the media.
(3) If you pull one side, your feet are in the cold.” Quite how long Hazard – who did manage seven minutes off the bench – is shivering out in the wilderness remains to be seen but Chelsea’s predicament requires a creative talent who signed a new five-and-a-half-year contract in February to emulate Willian and Pedro, allying discipline to those mind-boggling flashes of skill.
(4) He says: "One thing that boggled my mind when I was a student was that no one else seemed to be making videos for YouTube.
(5) He developed a parallel career as a rock video director after mentioning in a meeting with record label and film company Warp that he loved the Arctic Monkeys, and ended up directing a string of videos for them (given the band's legendary reticence, the mind boggles at what the initial meeting was like) as well as Vampire Weekend , Kasabian and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs .
(6) Nevertheless, in a country where we were conditioned to see the Conservatives as an endangered species no one much cared about saving, what happened last week was mind-boggling.
(7) The bold and controversial World Cup bid is an integral part of the wider 2030 Vision, a project designed to position Qatar for the future and the day when the natural oil and gas reserves that are the source of its mind-boggling wealth might run dry.
(8) We all know that only the most boggle-eyed ideologue, the type who would be in the vanguard of a murderous revolution stringing dodgy sorts like me from lamp-posts, could ever keep to a diet like this.
(9) But it is Left Behind that continues to dominate the field, spawning spin-off products including – mind-bogglingly – a "kids' series" that has run to more volumes than the original saga, as well as books looking at the Rapture from the military point of view and even video games .
(10) "The idea that the LA Times could be taken over by right-wing radical extremists just boggles the mind," said Glen Arnodo, staff director of the LA County Federation of Labor, as protestors prepared to picket.
(11) He can’t say.” Mr Tennant boggles an eye or two.
(12) Already what you find in the country is mind-boggling.” Chamlou has visited Iran three times this year and recently organised a visit by 35 of her former World Bank colleagues, including half a dozen Americans, who found it an eye-opener.
(13) Chelsea's lavish outlay came on the day the club announced losses of £70.9m for the financial year ending June 2010, with Abramovich's sudden willingness to return to the mind-boggling spending of the early years of his ownership a reflection of the need to strengthen the champions' relatively thin squad.
(14) As there were few new records being released that fitted the style he wanted to play, he began re-editing old ones to freshen them up, splicing tape to make their instrumental passages longer, or snatches of vocal repeat over and over again, adding new sounds, playing them in the club with a drum machine underneath them to alter the sound of the beat: at first, he used the rhythm settings on a home organ – the mind boggles a bit as to what that must have sounded like – but soon moved on to the Roland TR-909 .
(15) What she infers from this is mind-boggling – given that "take or pay" applies to the 27 "first-wave" English ISTCs, and there is strong evidence of underperformance, the overspend south of the border could reach £900m.
(16) Britain has passed plenty of mind-boggling landmarks since 2007 when the credit crisis struck, but news that the government now owes £1 trillion – yes, that's twelve noughts – underlines just how long it will take for the economy to adjust to what Sir Mervyn King, in a speech on Tuesday night, called a "new equilibrium".
(17) But even so, it's hard not to boggle at the level of fame Delevingne has attained.
(18) His visionary art is mind bogglingly detailed fairy fantasy, the most psychotically detailed thing you’ll ever see.
(19) From cosy gay pubs to mind-boggling drag shows and representation in most of the major galleries and arts spaces, there is enough LGBTQ culture to keep you occupied day and night.
(20) There’s a really big willingness to help here in Germany and a mind-boggling number of people that are doing lots for refugees, who are not racist, and I think it’s their voice that should be dominant rather than a handful of simpletons who think they should stir up hatred.” This article was amended on 7 August 2015 to correct the name of the news programme on which Reschke made her comments
Bogle
Definition:
(n.) A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1998 she moved to New York, where she still lives, to launch the US office of the British advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
(2) The church's complicated law-making procedures could still mean the compromise measure – which was proposed in a late motion tabled on Monday by the previous moderator, Albert Bogle, may not be law until 2015.
(3) Mr Bogle said: "Most associations are now highly efficient in management, maintenance and procurement and will struggle to extract anything other than fairly minimal savings.
(4) Gordon also lashed out at Roberts’ direct criticism of Cindy Gallop, the former president of global ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
(5) David Bogle, chief executive of Hightown Praetorian HA , argues that social landlords could make considerable savings if more of their bank borrowings were at floating rates of interest.
(6) There will be no discussion today of her love life, of either (reported) ex-boyfriend Gael Garcia Bernal or current beau, Reading-born model turned fashion entrepreneur Nathan Bogle.
(7) And rude-sounding phrases abounded: "There'll be finger bogling and massed goat pandering at the Royal Nobblers Institute all next week"; "An exhibition of gnome clenching in the corset department of Sparkslaw and Towser".
(8) Bogling, pogoing, doing the funky chicken – a sudden infusion of sweaty musical joy that radiates through the stiff London crowd and gives you the same sick, heady feeling you got the very first time you saw Janelle Monáe: that this is what rock'n'roll is about, and it's so brilliant that we might as well all pack up and go home.
(9) The TV commercial, developed by ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), marks the start of an advertising campaign that will also include outdoor advertising, cinema, press, and YouTube.
(10) Agency: Bartle Bogle Hegarty Director: Jonathan Glazer Guinness - "Out of the Depths" (Starts at 01:10) – UK Speaking of Jonathan Glazer, a new commercial for Guinness brings to mind his most famous commercial – the Surfer ad filmed in Hawaii.
(11) John Hegarty is Worldwide Creative Director of Bartle Bogle Hegarty and the author of Hegarty on Advertising: Turning Intelligence into Magic Not To Be Sold Separately: The Observer Colour Magazine 1964-1995 .
(12) I think she’s making up a lot of the stuff to create a profile, and to take applause, and to get on a soap[box].” Gallop, the former president of global ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), welcomed Roberts’ departure on Wednesday but said Saatchi & Saatchi should have sacked him.
(13) Gallop, former president of the global agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) in New York and once one of the most senior women in advertising, now adds unconscious bias to the list of barriers she goes through when she gives talks on the ad industry’s gender gap.
(14) Curriculum vitae Age 56 Education Wadhurst College, Kent; Oxford University Career 1981 theatre promoter 1985 account executive, Ted Bates 1987 account manager, JWT; account director, Gold Greenlees Trott 1989 board account director, Bartle Bogle Hegarty 1996 deputy MD, BBH AsiaPacific 1998 president BBH New York 2006 launches consultancy 2009 CEO IfWeRanTheWorld and founds MakeLoveNotPorn