What's the difference between bugger and foolish?

Bugger


Definition:

  • (n.) One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.
  • (n.) A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There's a stunning atmosphere in Wembley tonight, one even the Sheffield Wednesday band can't bugger up.
  • (2) If they try, they invariably bugger up the punchline.
  • (3) If Rooney is having a bad game (as he did against Algeria) England are buggered.
  • (4) The ref blows for a free kick, but doesn't book the saucy bugger.
  • (5) Very rarely now, but it still does happen that some police officer still does think, ‘Bugger that, I won’t make the call this time.’ “If they then try to use any evidence they obtained from that Aboriginal person, we’re very confident that any court will exclude that evidence,” he said.
  • (6) ", seconds before splashing about in the sub-zero Atlantic muttering "bugger".
  • (7) Stoke City and England defender Neil Franklin was the first to think BUGGER THAT, and along with team-mate George Mountford, agreed a move to Santa Fe in the summer of 1950.
  • (8) Michael Buerk would be there, trying to calm things, and behind him, through the window, I could see the producer mouthing the words: 'Fuck the bugger!'
  • (9) The French left’s preference for in-your-face secularism and scatologically offensive satire goes back to the Jacobins, for whom the words “priest, bugger and fuck” were in the core political vocabulary.
  • (10) As the buggered ploughs and botched pottage mounted, any residual rose-tinted sentimentality flaked off like the skin of a psoriatic shire horse.
  • (11) I wandered down to the local shop, and mumbled something about cigarettes, and was served: it wasn't until a day or two later that I realised my speech had become a bit buggered-about-with as well.
  • (12) But he told me he was housemaster in a home and he would say they were bad buggers in there and you have to discipline them.
  • (13) In a gag over the former Have I Got News For You star reading out his bank details, Deayton inadvertently said: "Bugger, yes."
  • (14) The ones who, when faced with a massive terrifying conspiracy, will offer just a weary sniff of "bugger to that, chuck".
  • (15) In my best Australian, total buggeration.” Prideaux scoffed at the theory shared by some local people that big landowners secretly favoured HS2 because they will make millions.
  • (16) The bugger who stabbed me, I'm the fourth person he had stabbed."
  • (17) I went to fill, from the cold tap in the kitchen, the glass percolator, and my cuffs (now I come to think about it, they had been a real bugger) managed to catch two plates from the night before and send them, breaking, to the floor.
  • (18) Just kidnap the bugger, like they did to Eichmann,” he added in a comment, referring to the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was captured in Argentina in 1960 and put on trial in Israel.
  • (19) As I stood just outside the ring of onlookers, a Ukip member leaned close to my ear and said, “If he went under a bus tomorrow, we’d be buggered.” On election day Ukip supporters were offered a glimpse of just such a future when Farage was injured in a light aircraft crash .
  • (20) If you're staying here, food and wine are included in the rate, and if you're here, you may as well stay because it's a bugger to get back to the coast after dark.

Foolish


Definition:

  • (a.) Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.
  • (a.) Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act.
  • (a.) Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So, logic would dictate that if Greeks are genuinely in favour of reform – and opinion polls have consistently shown wide support for many of the structural changes needed – they would be foolish to give these two parties another chance.
  • (2) It would be foolish to bet that Saudi Arabia will exist in its current form a generation from now.” Memories of how the Saudis and Opec deliberately triggered an economic crisis in the west in retaliation for US aid to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur war still rankle.
  • (3) That's foolish, because Real Madrid rarely look more uncomfortable than at set pieces.
  • (4) "We regret that Congress was forced to waste its time voting on a foolish bill that was premised entirely on false claims and ignorance," David Jenkins, an REP official, said in a statement.
  • (5) Shorten said while Hicks was “foolish to get caught up in the Afghanistan conflict” the court decision showed an injustice.
  • (6) Many commentators considered the suggestion merely foolish, but computer hackers issued death threats against her and her children, which she promptly posted on Twitter, along with the defiant message: "Get stuffed, losers.
  • (7) And it means that if Labour were to win, Mr Brown would be very foolish, indeed downright wrong, to move Mr Darling.
  • (8) "It was a certain kind of titillation the shop offered," the critic Matthew Collings has written, "sexual but also hopeless, destructive, foolish, funny, sad."
  • (9) Describing the moment McKellen knocked on his dressing room door he said: “I ushered him in nervously, expecting notes for my poor performance or indiscipline – I was a foolish, naughty young actor.
  • (10) But what people did when they were young and foolish, or even when they were not yet public figures, is not always the same.
  • (11) While we have this, it would be foolish to pursue a policy of still constraining resources in the acute sector.
  • (12) All three echoed remarks made recently by the Bank’s governor, Mark Carney, who said it would be “foolish” to cut rates in response to a temporary fall in inflation.
  • (13) Since the initially peaceful demonstrations against his regime began more than three years ago, he has proved himself, by turns, foolish, craven and vicious.
  • (14) In a high-risk, 65-minute speech in Manchester delivered without notes, and 20 minutes longer than he intended, Miliband tried to take the mantle of the 19th-century Tory prime minister Benjamin Disraeli's one nation, pointedly grabbing the territory and language of the centre ground which he believes David Cameron has foolishly vacated.
  • (15) But one backbencher, West Australian Liberal Dennis Jensen , has said it is foolish to set up a $20bn medical research fund at the same time as the government is cutting money from scientific agencies, including the CSIRO and the Australian Research Council.
  • (16) Donald Trump is too weak, too foolish and too chaotic to see beyond the immediate crises he has created.
  • (17) Here, too, Capote displayed uncanny journalistic skills, capturing even the most languid and enigmatic of subjects – Brando in his pomp – and eliciting the kinds of confidences that left the actor reflecting ruefully on his "unutterable foolishness".
  • (18) They privately acknowledge they were foolish in taking the bait, but argue they have broken no rules since they were offered no jobs, and therefore have no commercial interests to declare in the MPs' register.
  • (19) "Hopefully, the lesson is to stop this foolish childishness," McCain said Thursday on CNN.
  • (20) The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.” As for the social conditions that obtain: “It is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.” Looking back on my political activism of the 1970s and 80s, there was a lot of refusing to accept existing conditions on the basis that they were “wrong and foolish”.

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