What's the difference between bollock and reprimand?

Bollock


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
  • (2) The impact was dramatic, with the emir described in court papers as issuing "a bollocking" to the managing director of the Qatari Diar real estate firm, Ghanim bin Saad al-Saad, about the architecture.
  • (3) ; (2) I might watch that to see if it is possible to have a less confrontational tone on a panel show about politics; and (3) what a tokenistic load of bollocks!
  • (4) Ukip are brilliant at it, it’s bollocks but well done.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bob Geldof with the Lib Dem byelection candidate Sarah Olney.
  • (5) 46 min: Brazil, no doubt after an almighty bollocking from Dunga, get the second half under way.
  • (6) Gerrard's been magnificent since I gave him that morale-boosting bollocking earlier, but you won't see me taking the credit when Liverpool win this match.
  • (7) The response from the vast majority of conventional energy analysts to the idea of climate risk has been largely negative, with one recently saying publicly : " I think it's a bollocks subject.
  • (8) We will, however, be able to get our hands on colourful picture-disc copies of the classic Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks, mastered from its original tapes.
  • (9) You feel you’re the dog’s bollocks.” Like you’re an elite?
  • (10) It's your symbolic bollocks that you really need to worry about.
  • (11) Two receptionists on different floors tried to stop him but he found his way to MacKenzie’s office and berated him for publishing “this load of bollocks”.
  • (12) It is all "bollocks," writer AN Wilson told a slightly shocked John Humphrys on Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday.
  • (13) But even those who do not speak English understand when it matters: “A bollocking in any language sounds the same,” Moyes says.
  • (14) The London mayor, Boris Johnson, has marked the last week of election campaigning with an expletive-laden tirade, accusing a senior BBC journalist of talking "fucking bollocks" on a lunchtime TV bulletin.
  • (15) "I'm sitting on a big ashtray talking bollocks," says Hirst, laughing.
  • (16) On Monday, two Conservative chancellors, Nigel Lawson and Norman Lamont, accused Downing Street of publishing a Treasury document that amounted to propaganda , while one MP, Marcus Fysh, described it as “specious bollocks”.
  • (17) One day I might have the balls to exhibit them - to show others in their middle-class "I'm alright, bollocks to you" lifestyles who aren't affected by the issue just how real it is.
  • (18) John McCain, the Arizona senator, said the procedure had been “bollocks-upped” and said it was tantamount to torture – a charge all the more potent because McCain was a victim of torture in Vietnam.
  • (19) I can't help but notice you've branded this population-adjusted tool the "Williamson-modified Fifa Bollocks Ranking Scale".
  • (20) To the accusation that he was a "fake", he replied that the newspaper industry was "full of lies, corruption, misrepresentation, bollocks and the most evil, nasty, small-minded people".

Reprimand


Definition:

  • (n.) Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.
  • (n.) To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally.
  • (n.) To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pardew apologised for his behaviour on Saturday night and the FA is awaiting the referee's report before deciding on action against the 52-year-old, who has been fined £100,000 by Newcastle and severely reprimanded by the club .
  • (2) The newspaper reported that the claims "would appear to be at odds with parliamentary rules" after the former Labour minister Tony McNulty was reprimanded for allowing his parents to live in his second home, which was subsidised by the taxpayer.
  • (3) According to sources, the incident prompted James Harding , the director of BBC News, to send a note reprimanding Paxman for his public criticism of the corporation.
  • (4) It is clearly an option, and it is something that the government considers, but the way to take that option away is for the senators to pass those bills.” Muir said he did not respond well to those kinds of threats, saying that union leaders who spoke to employees in such a way would be reprimanded.
  • (5) It would be easy to efficiently cut him down with the word “rapist”, particularly when I will not face any reprimands for my own imperfect behaviour during the relationship.
  • (6) Teachers report using both reprimands and encouragement as strategies to reduce off-task behavior in the classroom.
  • (7) It "failed to recognise the significance" of damage to a gas fracking well in 2011 and did not report it to government officials for six months, leading to a stern reprimand by the energy minister, papers released under the Freedom of Information Act show.
  • (8) Reprimands proved superior to No Feedback in reducing off-task behavior, but Encouragement did not.
  • (9) She has allegedly received several disciplinary reprimands, including the complaint that she did not respond to a 5:30am wake-up call.
  • (10) I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that.
  • (11) "HE [Her Excellency Joyce Banda] called me this morning and reprimanded me for issuing the statement without consulting Steve, my boss," the message says.
  • (12) There was even an appeal judge reprimanded over a driving ban but his name seems to have slipped off the bottom of the 2012 list .
  • (13) A woman captured on video slapping her teenage son for taking part in the Baltimore riots, a reprimand that went viral online, won praise from the city’s police commissioner and was heralded on social media as “mum of the year”.
  • (14) The wanton slaughter of two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq and the severe and even lethal torture of Afghan detainees generated, at worst, shockingly short jail time for the killers and, usually, little more than letters of reprimand.
  • (15) Jeremy Paxman was reprimanded by the BBC's director of news over negative comments he made about the corporation before the announcement of his departure from Newsnight , it has emerged.
  • (16) They were subsequently informed that the victim responded with interpersonal aggression or with a verbal reprimand.
  • (17) He appeared to reprimand Kennedy for speaking out in a public meeting rather than raising her concerns during the private consultations that take place with major investors.
  • (18) The FSA warned last month that City firms faced fines and public reprimands unless they could name the individuals responsible for ensuring clients' money was kept separate from overall funds.
  • (19) Only those with no deductions at all, even for a minor reprimand, are allowed to go on an end-of-term trip.
  • (20) The results indicate that the manner in which reprimands are delivered is critical in influencing children's misbehavior, but the role of nurturance during disciplinary situations is less clear.

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