(n.) A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
(n.) A brisk, dashing fellow.
(a.) Jovial and blustering; dashing.
(a.) Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
(v. t.) To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward.
(v. i.) To act as a bully.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(3) It would still need to work with government funded national anti-doping organisations where they exist (though even those considered an example to others, such as UK Anti Doping, are facing swingeing cuts) and bully as well as cajole sports into testing properly with rigour and independence.
(4) "For so long, management kept us down; they've broken us and bullied us," he said.
(5) One hundred days from Rio, Britain’s national cycling team has been thrown into chaos following the sudden resignation of its head, technical director Shane Sutton , as allegations of bullying and discrimination against women and Paralympians accumulated on Wednesday.
(6) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
(7) How, we might ask, can homophobic bullying be tackled when implicitly sanctioned by the school’s own literature?
(8) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(9) This is the latest rejection for an irrational bully whose brand is increasingly toxic.” Referring to earlier controversial comments made on the US campaign trail, Salmond also said of Trump: His behaviour and comments are unlikely to attract the votes of many Mexican Americans or Muslim Americans.
(10) "If I thought he was a bully or if I thought he was homophobic then I would take him off," Cooper told MediaGuardian's Radio Reborn conference in central London.
(11) Dean, who started working at the flagship A&F store on 11 June last year, told the tribunal: "I had been bullied out of my job.
(12) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(13) More like this: • Five reasons why the Ref is not fit for purpose • Struggle for top research grades fuels bullying among university staf f • Measuring impact: how Australia and the UK are tackling research assessment Enter the Guardian university awards 2015 and join the higher education network for more comment, analysis and job opportunities, direct to your inbox.
(14) In 2007 a fresh-faced MP spent two days at the home of a Muslim family in Birmingham and then wrote boldly of how it wasn’t possible to “bully people into feeling British: we have to inspire them”; “you can’t even start to talk about a truly integrated society while people are suffering racist … abuse … on a daily basis”.
(15) "We should oppose the practices of the big bullying the small, the strong domineering over the weak and the rich oppressing the poor."
(16) Someone, somewhere, must stand up to the bullying, hectoring hypocrisy of Cameron's "localism" act and his henchman, Pickles, in full "screw democracy" mode.
(17) The report detailed several instances of bullying by pupils.
(18) The assessment of bullying in schools comes after police figures indicated that young people were the victims of 10% of faith hate crime and 8% of race hate crime between 16 June and 7 July.
(19) Earlier Alexander, the most senior Scottish MP in the UK cabinet, rejected claims that ministers in London were bullying Scotland into rejecting independence.
(20) Work on The Maze Runner came about, he says, because his director watched Son of Rambow “and knew I had some bully-ish qualities in my acting locker”.
Superb
Definition:
(a.) Grand; magnificent; august; stately; as, a superb edifice; a superb colonnade.
(a.) Rich; elegant; as, superb furniture or decorations.
(a.) Showy; excellent; grand; as, a superb exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) After darting in from the left the forward fired a low shot past Martínez at the near post to crown a superb personal performance.
(2) This assay provides superb reproducibility and a recovery rate without the influence of any anti-coagulants and hemolysis.
(3) Ibrahimovic only came alive in the second half, when he had a hand in Rashford’s goal and also drew a superb save from Heurelho Gomes with a far-post header.
(4) The home side looked to have done enough to battle to victory after taking an early lead through a superb free-kick by the full-back Aaron Cresswell.
(5) While it was always possible to wash down the superb Rhodesian beef with fine Portuguese and South African wines at several hotels, Salisbury had difficulty living up to its nickname of Surbiton in the Bush.
(6) Shilton has had scarcely anything to do all night but now produces a superb save from Klinsmann.
(7) The wins were a team effort, combining superb starting pitching with a suddenly revitalized offense, one that has delivered a staggering 12th-fewest runs in the American League this season.
(8) MRI is capable of demonstrating superb anatomic detail of the appendicular skeleton and articulations.
(9) All of Goyrand's work was edited by Masson in 1870, including a superb case report of giant elephantiasis of the penis and scrotum, a study on cleft lip and the technique of using collodion bands to close large wounds [corrected].
(10) His finishing, however, left much to be desired, and he missed another good chance when played through by a superb pass from the inventive Allen.
(11) Brad Guzan produced a superb save to deny Ayew, rushing off his line to smother a left-foot shot from six yards out, and 33 seconds later the Swansea forward’s brother had the ball in the net at the other end.
(12) How they needed a piece of quality here and it was Mahrez who provided it, the Algeria international scoring with a superb strike.
(13) It was a superb team goal, showed Arsenal at their counterattacking best, and emphasised the chasm in class.
(14) His last film (Something in the Air) played at Venice, though he was in Cannes as recently as 2010 with his superb, made-for-TV thriller Carlos.
(15) First lit in 1817, the lighthouse opened to visitors for day tours and overnight stays earlier this year and has superb coastal walks and beaches nearby.
(16) If Hart was hardly hyperactive either the England goalkeeper must still have been mightily relieved to see Pablo Zabaleta make a superb clearance from Townsend’s cross just as Mitrovic, on as a substitute, seemed likely to apply his forehead to it.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Formation: ‘Here, this superstar locates herself in time and place – in other words, in her own political history.’ Photograph: YouTube That this played out on mainstream TV is significant, as is the superb new video for Formation.
(18) In the closing minutes Mignolet produced a superb save to deny Bakambu and Moreno broke the length of the field following a Villarreal corner only to slice wide from 12 yards.
(19) That followed a confident start by Villa during which a header by Ciaran Clark had required a superb save from Wojciech Szczesny to keep it out.
(20) Then Valeri's superb improvised finish (he specializes in those, it seems) doubled the lead on the night, and Portland are cruising.