What's the difference between bugger and futile?

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.

Futile


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Talkative; loquacious; tattling.
  • (v. t.) Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is suggested the participation of glycogen (starch) in the self-oscillatory mechanism of the futile cycle formed by the phosphofructokinase and fructose bisphosphatase reactions may give rise to oscillations with the period of 10(3)-10(4) min, which may serve as the basis for the cell clock.
  • (2) It also appears that she would have been one of those behind the government's futile attempts to oppose restrictions on neonicotinoids.
  • (3) Every time he felt the futility of his work for the NAACP, he’d finger the well-worn pages, and it would strengthen his resolve.” This is how classics of this calibre work their way into the literary bloodstream.
  • (4) Representing the Sun in the second hearing, Richard Spearman QC told the court that keeping the privacy injunction in place was futile.
  • (5) We propose that when rationing criteria refer to medical benefit, the meanings of futility and rationing share certain common features.
  • (6) So we have futile rhetoric on immigration, but minimal discussion over how to reinvent politics in the digital age.
  • (7) Last week’s International Women’s Day offered a fresh variation on that enjoyable, if futile, new pastime – posthumous EU partisanship.
  • (8) Inhibition of this futile cycling may represent one avenue by which energetic costs of maintenance and production can be lowered in ruminants.
  • (9) We postulated that the high-affinity potassium uptake system was able to generate such a steep gradient across the membrane that the low-affinity system would act in reverse, thus creating a futile cycle of potassium ions at the cost of energy.
  • (10) Zuckerberg has long been courting China’s leaders in a so far futile attempt to access the country with the world’s largest number of Internet users — 668 million as of last year.
  • (11) In 1986, while serving as prime minister and foreign minister, Peres held negotiations that led to the London agreement, the ultimately futile peace accord that included Israeli-Jordanian cooperation in administrating the West Bank.
  • (12) Futile cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may prevent humane care of the dying child and deprive parents of the opportunity to express their love, grief, and dedication at a critical moment, while appropriate and successful CPR may restore intact their child.
  • (13) Of the 8 women who had futile laparotomies, 4 had unilateral salpingectomy and a contralateral Pomeroy ligation, but insufficient tube remained for reversal; 2 others had single-burn cautery, but had insufficient tube length, and the Pomeroy procedures in 2 others left insufficient distal tissue.
  • (14) Furthermore, addition of low concentrations of PAPS (0.5 microM) to a reconstituted system of microsomes and cytosol impaired the formation of fluorescent product from 4-methylumbelliferyl sulfate until PAPS was consumed, indicating that futile cycling via arylsulfatase and sulfotransferase occurred.
  • (15) However, the early stages are often missed or lead to futile diagnostic endeavours.
  • (16) Ignoring personal ghosts, or those of an entire country traumatised by war and genocide, is futile and even dangerous.
  • (17) Rationing, triage, and medical futility in relation to AIDS patients require careful deliberation and consideration.
  • (18) It’s idealistic, it’s the right thing to do even if it turns out to be utterly futile.
  • (19) These unusual kinetic properties may be of significance with regard to the regulation of ornithine transcarbamylase in this organism, especially in the avoidance of a futile ornithine cycle.
  • (20) Iceland This strange and beautiful country is now as flooded with satellite trash as everywhere else, but is listed in the futile hope that the suppression it once practised might be revived.