(n.) A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel.
(n.) To contend for; to canvass; to solicit.
Example Sentences:
Brogue
Definition:
(n.) A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.
(v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is clear the teenagers – including Pickles – love Matthew Burton, one of the school's assistant heads, who, with his skinny-fitting suit, brown brogues, shaggy hair and loose floral tie, looks more like the singer in an indie group than an English teacher.
(2) Photograph: Thomas Karlsson Writer Will Coldwell put on his best hipster brogues, turned up his jeans, and sought out a different side of Europe’s major cities in covering these innovative walking tours that revel in art, history, food, drink – and even financial mismanagement.
(3) He looks like a disgusted George Clooney, or a man arguing about brogues in a hotel foyer in a Tom Ford film.
(4) Open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, plus Sun noon-6pm in July and August The Oxford Bar Photograph: Alamy When the Inspector Rebus ITV series was relaunched in 2006, with Ken Stott stepping into the scuffed brogues of John Hannah, there was a feeling they had finally got the right man to play Ian Rankin's bruised copper.
(5) But last Friday his gravelly brogue was inescapable, at least for anyone tuned to BBC radio news bulletins.
(6) She leans back, arms crossed, blue-rimmed glasses nestling in thick blonde waves on top of her head, every now and then interjecting with a quip and a delighted kick of her blue, brogued feet.
(7) You don't see enough people running around in brogues and bowler hat these days.
(8) Then there are the accents, as bad a representation of the Brummie brogue as you’re ever likely to hear on TV.
(9) That it's also one of the best things to have appeared on the BBC in years is almost by the by: this, it booms in its enormous, barrel-lunged Irish brogue, is how to make a relentlessly original, consistently gripping, vast-brained five-part psychological thriller with a gimmick (in essence: let's devote equal attention to the hunter and the hunted) that never feels like a gimmick, but rather the perfect means of exploring the banality of evil, the nature of obsession, and the niggly-squirmy minutiae of everyday, common-or-garden murder.
(10) Photograph: Barbie After a survey on the fashion desk, we have decided that we particularly like the vibe of Everyday Chic Curvy Barbie, who has boldly teamed distressed cropped jeans with lace-up black brogues.
(11) Just in case we hadn't got the message while sitting (and getting a bit hot and bored) for about an hour for the show to start, Danny himself appeared and spoke unto us in his matey, charismatic Lancashire brogue.
(12) shouts out one of the troops, who range from a retired chap of military bearing, wearing a tweed jacket and brown brogue shoes, to a dishevelled fan of Viz comics.
(13) The tepid sunshine wobbles in, polishes his shabby brogues, moves shyly across the surface of the dressing table.
(14) They dressed accordingly, in blazers and brogues appropriate to a Cape Cod country club, and Koenig sang about Ivy League campuses populated by characters with names like Blake and Bryn.
(15) A 65-year-old women developed an Irish brogue immediately after a deep left hemisphere stroke.
(16) Crucially, the three banks who placed higher valuations on the Royal Mail and were all ignored by the government didn't take the opportunity to put the leather brogues in.
(17) I think she is very good in it, though connoisseurs of the lilting London brogue may disagree.
(18) "Yes," you think, as you watch his brogues clacking along another forlorn cobbled boulevard to the strains of a throttled theramin.
(19) As well as Céline, a pair of splattered trousers in the J Crew collection already have a buzz about them and Martin Margiela has a pair of very smart brogues covered in paint.
(20) The hair is neatly combed and he wears a grey pinstriped suit with a blue shirt and tie, black socks, black brogues and distinct air of civility.