(n.) A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other is a 330lb bruiser who has admitted to smoking crack cocaine, "a lot of marijuana" and to an alcohol problem.
(2) Parliamentary byelections, which Hanna transformed into memorable TV fiestas in the Thatcher era, have become tepid and tedious since the bonhomous Belfast bruiser quit the BBC in 1987.
(3) 4.24pm BST BRUSSELS BRACED FOR BRUISING SUMMIT From Brussels, our Europe editor Ian Traynor reports that officials and diplomats are predicting a bit of a bruiser: Ian writes: Paris and Berlin presenting conflicting demands that boil down to a power grab by Berlin for control of other people's budgets and a bid by Paris to force Germany to shell out more quickly and more easily for bailouts and shoring up dodgy banks.
(4) Now, Henry might have a reputation for being a bruiser, but McCormack seemed to kick into Henry’s attempted pass as far as I could see from that challenge.
(5) Alan Johnson's reputation as a down-to-earth and good-natured bruiser will be sorely tested in his new job as shadow chancellor, co-ordinating Labour's opposition to the coalition's cuts.
(6) Compact and soft-spoken, Serwotka is from a slightly different mould than bruisers like the RMT's Bob Crow.
(7) Long before his embarrassing apology, the derision and invitations to "grow a pair" that greeted Nick Clegg's admission of emotional responses to music and literature, indicated – along with speculation about his controlling wife – limited interest in challenging the inflexible "big beast" and "bruiser" orthodoxies of political success.
(8) Although the received wisdom is that Sturgeon softens Salmond's bruiser image, Adam Tomkins, professor of law at Glasgow University and an independent adviser to the Scottish Conservative leader, Ruth Davidson, points out: "When Salmond put her in charge of the campaign in 2012, one reason was to close the gap in support for independence among women, and that has not shifted very much.
(9) The generals face accusations they cannot protect the country's borders, its military bases or their own street bruisers.
(10) Despite Balls's undoubted intellectual credentials his reputation as a political bruiser and Brown's attack dog worked against him during the leadership campaign.
(11) • The following correction was published on 29 January 2012: North by north-east: "Political bruiser with a robust approach to crime" (News) was wrong to say that if Lord Prescott were to run for police commissioner for Humberside he would be returning to his "native north-east".
(12) Diamante looked fantastic on a bloke, especially if you looked like a bit of a bruiser.
(13) O'Reilly, Fox's most popular news star and a best-selling author, claims he is the target of a politically motivated, $60m (£33.2m) extortion attempt by his accuser, 32-year-old Fox News producer Andrea Mackris, and her lawyer, a well-known legal bruiser, Benedict Morelli.
(14) That slightly undermined the Wolves' own understandable indignation when Wigan's second-row bruiser Harrison Hansen threw himself either recklessly or cynically at the legs of Stefan Ratchford when he was being held up by another Wigan defender – a possible example of the cannonball tackle that has caused much controversy in recent years.
(15) The famous five candidates have long fallen into habitual roles, but – maddening as it must be to the bruiser Balls and the outsider Abbott and the scouser Burnham – the fascination of the contest has generally and inevitably been the familial one to which it seems to have narrowed down, just about the oldest story line of all, and one which rarely finds a happy ending.
(16) Alas, Skyrim's bruiser would make mincemeat out of Friedrich's thoughtful ramblers.
(17) There’s a long way to go but, without Ofsted being there, I’ve no doubt standards will fall and we would go backwards, not forwards.” In his sometimes turbulent time at the inspectorate, he suggested parents should be fined if they do not turn up for parents’ evening; he said teachers who leave at 3pm should be paid less; he has backed schools that ban “inappropriate wearing” of full-face veils and issued a call to arms for maverick school leaders who are “battlers, bruisers and battle-axes” who will not put up with mediocrity.
(18) So who is that bruiser with the generous Rolodex and secret service protection, race-baiting his way around the campaign trail making her case on her behalf?
(19) In Group A, the patients that reported easy bruising tended to be older (61 vs 52 yrs), on higher daily dosages (1,388 vs 1,067 micrograms) and had been taking inhaled corticosteroids for longer (55 vs 43 months) than non-bruisers.
(20) I respect the choice that Jeremy has made as leader.” McDonnell acknowledged his reputation as a political bruiser at a meeting organised by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Corn Exchange in Brighton on Sunday night.
Thug
Definition:
(n.) One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thugs are distributing leaflets threatening to "wipe us out" and children in schools are being taught that the Rohingya are different.
(2) Mugabe and his Zanu-PF thugs, terrified of losing their empire, unleashed a carefully targeted anarchy at anyone who showed the slightest sign of dissent.
(3) "It took 21 days to get my hands on the brilliant Thug Life, whereas the book took me 77 days," he writes.
(4) But with a murderous thug ejected from power, who could object?
(5) Here's one entry: 1995: The government is full of jack-booted thugs in bucket helmets.
(6) In Ya’alon’s place is set to come a man routinely described as a thug, even if he did once serve as foreign minister.
(7) During the police repression of the Tunisian revolution, they were beaten by security thugs, and in rural areas around Kasserine some were raped by police after demonstrations.
(8) The commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, said today that armed officers protecting Prince Charles and his wife Camilla as their car was attacked by student protesters showed "enormous restraint" and condemned the "thugs" who attacked the vehicle.
(9) After all, every veto holder had attacked another country in defiance of the charter, but no one had ever disputed the alleged Westphalian right of each anointed thug to mistreat his "own" people.
(10) "Free speech is a principle of our democracy, but the thugs that prompted violence ... represent in no way shape or form the Canadian way of life," Dimitri Soudas, the chief spokesman for the prime minister, Stephen Harper, said.
(11) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
(12) She has no problem combining the roles of mother and hitperson: during one exchange of fire, she offs three thugs, then turns to her daughter and asks, "Honey, should we get a puppy?"
(13) Not surprisingly, the Thugs caught the imagination of the British at home (which is how the word "thug" entered the English language), and became a touchstone for colonial justifications for ruling India.
(14) Bikers for Trump: 'He'll get my vote because he's off his goddamn rocker' Read more Although Cleveland is the most fortified city in America at the moment, with thousands of police, FBI and secret service agents securing the Republican national convention, David – who won’t give me his last name but says he is from Minnesota – worries about “agitators” and “thugs” who make him feel unsafe.
(15) "If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves," Major General Michael T Flynn, then the senior US military intelligence official in Afghanistan, was quoted as saying .
(16) Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a longstanding critic of Obama’s foreign policy credentials, urged the president to “do something” rather than deliver what he called empty threats to “thugs and dictators”.
(17) You used to be pretty certain, when a killing happened, that it was the work of the state, or thugs in the pay of the state.
(18) One of the emails mentioned Watson, who strongly denied any involvement, but the Sun branded him “a Brownite thug”.
(19) How embarrassing that some members of the government appear to have behaved in the manner of uncouth thugs – and towards someone representing the UN, which dared to question the bedroom tax.
(20) Hosni Mubarak launched his counter-revolution today, sending waves of armed thugs to do battle with pro-democracy demonstrators in Cairo and other cities.