(v. i.) To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
(n.) A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl.
Example Sentences:
(1) On 23 June, the Cleveland linebacker Ausar Walcott was charged with attempted murder following a brawl in a bar; three days later, the New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was arrested on suspicion of shooting a man dead.
(2) Joyce was arrested in March after being allegedly involved in a brawl at a bar at the House of Commons, but prosecutors took no action against him.
(3) A randomised trial was conducted to assess the value of sending a mobile coronary care unit (MCCU) to all emergency calls other than those for children or for patients injured in road-traffic accidents or brawls.
(4) Uefa has charged both nations following the ensuing mass brawl but the controversy continued on Thursday.
(5) Not only is Corbyn not being granted a honeymoon, relatives are determined to have a brawl at the wedding.
(6) When these two men-children confronted one another with violent intent in a press conference at the Olympiahalle, less than an hour after Chisora's sanctioned brawl with Vitali Klitschko, they knew exactly what they were doing.
(7) (One witness to the encounter described the two leaders as like "lads looking for a brawl outside a pub on a Friday night").
(8) Cue mass brawl after the inevitable German penalty shoot-out victory.
(9) There have also been mass escapes, countless self-harm attempts and brawls leading to one guard being suspended, according to incident logs obtained under freedom of information laws.
(10) Rose, who sparked the first brawl after clashing with Willian and was booked, said he was sorry for how the game may have looked to young viewers.
(11) He said he believed a brawl was breaking out when “all of a sudden a guy comes up with a knife ... stabs me there [motioning to his neck] I push him off and blood is going everywhere”.
(12) The Lapland New Forest attraction drew criticism back in 2008, with its brawling elves, sad-looking animals and muddy grotto.
(13) Cracks appear in cabinet as same-sex marriage splits Abbott's frontbench Read more The rolling brawl caps off a terrible week for the Abbott government, with the instability set to roll on into next week’s new parliamentary session.
(14) In 36% the situation was characterized by brawling or chasing.
(15) For a few minutes the brawling was as pronounced as at any England game in recent years and, though riot police arrived to divide the two sets of supporters, trouble flared again after Barkley’s deflected shot had given England the lead.
(16) A drunken brawl was in progress and as Cohn opened the cab door one of the guys reeled over the gutter and threw up over his trouser leg.
(17) During the ensuing brawl with the audience, eight people were injured.
(18) Law graduate 1954-55 Served in Indochina as paratroop lieutenant 1956 Youngest French MP (Poujadist movement), volunteer lieutenant in Algeria 1957 Implicated in French army torture during a three-month tour of duty in Algeria 1958 Loses right eye in electoral brawl, defeated in general elections 1972 Establishes the National Front party 1974 Polls 0.62% (190,000 votes) in presidential election 1976 Inherits fortune from NF supporter after court battle 1984 Becomes MEP 1986 MP (loses seat in 1988) 1987 Claims that Nazi concentration camps were 'a mere detail' of second world war 1990 Fined the equivalent of £160,000 for incitement to racial hatred 2000 Banned from holding political office for a year after attacking a woman Socialist candidate 2002 Polled 18%(5.5 million votes) in presidential election
(19) Uefa has charged the Serbian and Albanian Football Associations after the brawl involving players, supporters and stewards was sparked by a drone carrying the insignia of so-called “Greater Albania”, with the governing body expected to enforce heavy sanctions.
(20) As for the man in the middle of the brawl, he was among the few people remaining calm.
Insincere
Definition:
(a.) Not being in truth what one appears to be; not sincere; dissembling; hypocritical; disingenuous; deceitful; false; -- said of persons; also of speech, thought; etc.; as, insincere declarations.
(a.) Disappointing; imperfect; unsound.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a statement, the network added: "The crackdown on activists, being directly related to the anniversary, demonstrates contempt towards international human rights norms and insincerity in the government's own pledges and commitments to promote human rights in China ."
(2) In London, for instance, the insincere granite cladding of Canary Wharf owes much to his example.
(3) The health prospects of Mubarak, who has long been ill, could have a major impact on the volatile internal politics of Egypt , where tensions between pro-reform protesters and the interim authorities – which are accused by some of being too slow in holding the Mubarak regime to account and insincere in their efforts to build democratic institutions – are threatening to bubble over.
(4) Did glossing over his feelings during the interview reveal Prince as insincere or more concerned with selling his album than engaging with real life?
(5) It took two weeks for him to address the issue publicly, while his wife Patience was accused of melodrama smacking of insincerity when she met mothers of the kidnapped girls.
(6) Almost anyone will say an insincere 'sorry' when they hope it will avert the loss of liberty, or a bag of sweets, or even a seat in Parliament."
(7) It’s what happens when weaponised insincerity is applied to structured ignorance.
(8) But to reach those heights and win popular backing, Sisi has been forced to adopt the vocabulary of revolution, however insincerely, and issue promises – on economic justice, an end to corruption, an improvement in living standards – that his unreformed state will not be able to deliver.
(9) Not because either statement is insincere: all writers genuinely want people to read their books and all law-enforcement agencies really believe they need more powers.
(10) All around me were other parents, similarly shouting and cheering at their mostly embarrassed little ones – and after each race triumphant handshakes, sarcastic congratulations and insincere condolences were offered.
(11) "The Daily Express is not in the business of conning our readers with gimmicks and insincere campaigns.
(12) "This seeming refusal to accept that the contents of his emails were in fact sexist and inappropriate to my mind completely undermines his public apology and leads to only one conclusion: that it was insincere and therefore unsustainable in the court of public opinion," he said.
(13) Iain Duncan Smith has accused David Cameron of insincerity and an attempt to deceive the public over EU immigration, as the out campaign stepped up its attacks on the prime minister’s character.
(14) A glance at what Smith has said in the past on certain subjects, and what he is saying about them now, has left him open to the charge of insincerity, and there were a couple of moments when he appeared to trip.
(15) Chief Inspector Ted Antill, of Nottinghamshire police, said: "While this recent example may be amusing, it illustrates the sort of insincere calls we have to deal with on a daily basis in the control room.
(16) Smith and his cronies were kept in power by a combination of white redoubt solidarity in southern Africa, deep divisions among Rhodesian-African tribal groups and guerrilla movements, irresolution in London, inertia and insincerity elsewhere - and a small group of white Rhodesian, South African and British army officers, police, security men and sanctions-busters whose cunning knew no bounds.
(17) Sommer, who volunteered for the Bob Dole campaign as a kid and “reluctantly” voted for George W Bush in 2004, said she found Trump’s gambit early in the 2016 primary race to sit out a debate, to ostentatiously raise money for veterans, to be insincere.
(18) In the preface he wrote: "I do not believe the fable that men read travel books to escape from reality: they read to escape into it, from a crazy wonderland of armaments, cant, political speeches at once insincere and illiterate, propaganda, and social injustice which the lunacy of humanity has constructed over a period of years."
(19) The word "sorry" – even if said insincerely – carries a sense of personal responsibility.
(20) Only last month, his insincere clapping upon being booked against Barcelona swiftly saw him receive his marching orders.