(1) Starkey was in a heated discussion with Owen Jones, author of Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class, when he made his remarks during a discussion hosted by Emily Maitlis that also included the writer Dreda Say Mitchell.
(2) "What has happened is that the substantial section of the chavs that you wrote about have become black.
(3) A classic example, she believes, is Little Britain, in which David Walliams blacked up to play the character of Desiree, an obese black woman, and in which so-called "chavs" are ridiculed.
(4) But the one that really jumped out was of a chav-themed school disco: all these rosy-cheeked, foppish-looking public schoolkids dressed in baseball caps and Adidas tracksuits.
(5) Johnson tells the Radio Times that she didn't know that fat people ("classic chavs") could be hungry, until she saw their empty cupboards and their food budget (£3 a day for three people), and what it could and could not buy.
(6) I love her twice as hard for depriving a certain type of viewer of the chaotic chavs-on-tour spectacle they might have been expecting by taking entirely normal holidays and considering sound financial options.
(7) Discussion of the moral deficiency of benefit claimants has long been a substitute for political and economic debate, asylum-seeker is a dirty word, and "chav" is a word that no one wants applied to them.
(8) Jones's Chavs, Andy Merrifield's Magical Marxism, Laurie Penny's collection of her writing Penny Red and Nicholas Shaxson's exposé of tax havens Treasure Islands complete the lineup.
(9) Unusually for the comedy chav character – sadly every soap has one – Beth has been furnished with the requisite parenting skills to clock when something's up with her Craigy.
(10) The headline inside was "Future Bling of England"; the strapline screamed, "Wills wears Chav Gear in Army Snap."
(11) The shortlist Counterpower: Making Change Happen by Tim Gee Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made It edited by Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination by Andy Merrifield Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent by Laurie Penny Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
(12) Class hatred has been siphoned off on to chavs, scroungers, benefit fraudsters, single mothers, all the new untouchables, so that the architects of austerity can justify their cruelty.
(13) It hardly ever has a scandal – the biggest was when a group of 12-year-olds got drunk on vodka – and it is reputed, probably wrongly, to have originated "chav" as a snooty term for the less eligible young men of the town ("Cheltenham average").
(14) And in popular culture, stereotypes that had been given new life in the 1980s eventually went nuclear: the mid-to-late New Labour period, let us not forget, was the era of Little Britain’s council-estate grotesque Vicky Pollard , the hairstyle maligned as the council-house facelift, and the bundling-up of council housing in the same dread category as “chavs” and welfare scroungers.
(15) Over two pages built around a snap of 30 trainee officers at Sandhurst, yesterday's Sun gleefully recounted how the heir to the throne "joined in the fun as his platoon donned chav-themed fancy dress to mark the completion of their first term".
(16) The “mix”, even when it happened, was a mix of the mutually hostile – search for the Greenwich Millennium Village online, to find a host of complaints by rich residents at the fact that sundry “chavs” and “scum” have ended up residing in their stunning luxury living solution.
(17) Now the people that bug me every day are cab drivers and chavs.
(18) His perusal of the entertainment currently offered to undergraduates has only confirmed that the so-called "chav bop" - a disco where you dress up as a working-class person - is an immovable fixture not only at public schools, but also throughout Oxford's colleges.
(19) They want us looking suspiciously and disdainfully in the direction of marginalised individuals; "chavs", "immigrants" and "gays," not in the direction of the institutions who actually damage our society – banks, corporations and the media.
(20) They want to see the back of these TV chavs so they can be left with their Poliakoff and their Potter (as well as their Big Brothers and Embarrassing Illnesses and all their "TV heaven", slumming it choices, obviously) and be served a TV which is essentially much more ... them.
Snuck
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We snuck in quietly during the night in civilian cars.
(2) Rui Faria and Silvino Louro, two of his coaches and closest allies, snuck in to the back of the auditorium to cast their eye over proceedings.
(3) Johnny Depp's dogs on death row after being 'snuck' into Australia Read more But it seems Pistol and Boo may not have had the proper paperwork when they were departing their home state of California, which could pose difficulties when they try to go back.
(4) After a meeting lasting more than two hours inside the building, the officials–from the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, known as the troika–snuck out of the ministry via an external fire escape, thereby avoiding the front entrance.
(5) (Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four snuck in second, with Joyce's Ulysses third.)
(6) Osvaldo Alonso made it two nil as he snuck one off the inside of the far post in the 47th minute and even though Reinaldo Navia pulled on back in the 52nd minute for Atlanta, the Sounders would not be denied their win and Alex Caskey got the two goal lead back two minutes later, followed by two more from Sammy Ochoa.
(7) Down 21-17 with 16 seconds left in the game, Lombardi told Starr to "run it and let's get the hell out of here," after which the quarterback snuck into the endzone and rewarded Packers fans for suffering the cold.
(8) Last year, student Ibrahim Abd, who did not want to give his real name, snuck into Syria to help media activists there, without telling his family.
(9) Oliver was filming Daily Show reports at the 2008 Republican national convention in Minnesota – the event at which Sarah Palin made her national debut – and had snuck in, with his camera crew, to a VIP area in which he didn't have permission to be.
(10) FFA grant Wellington Phoenix 10-year A-League licence extension Read more Played through by midfielder Stefan Mauk, Kamau steadied and snuck a shot past Danny Vukovic at the keeper’s near post, with a healthy deflection off Scott Galloway’s leg.
(11) Before Dylan and Jagger cut the ribbon to open our bourgeois-friendly field, Mike Heron, Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer of the Incredible String Band had already snuck in and were happily ensconced in a far corner that few have visited since.
(12) Wenger was still remonstrating with a touchline official about some perceived wrong from several minutes earlier when United hit them with a third knockout blow, Nani leaving Lehmann for dead with a left-foot shot that snuck under him and into the far right corner.
(13) They could, of course, thrash Arsenal by double figures and see West Brom suffer a similar hammering at home to Stoke, whose impressive season has rather snuck under a lot of people's radars.
(14) Snuck in as an anagram or across the first letter of each word in a sentence?
(15) The last time the Observer snuck under the nation’s duvet and asked a representative sample of consenting adults those $64,000 questions – How many partners?
(16) Just now he snuck into the box undetected and was picked out by a good ball from the right-back.
(17) Having missed two good chances with his head, Clint Dempsey switched to using his feet and doubled Fulham's lead with his right, getting the final touch to a shot from Duff that, having picked up a deflection from Pascal Chimbonda, may have snuck past Robinson on its own.
(18) It’s still under investigation – we’re still asking those questions.” The broadcaster said he understood the two dogs were deliberately snuck into the country in a minder’s handbag, with the full knowledge of Depp and his wife Amber Heard.
(19) On Sunday, Sky News's live coverage of the diamond jubilee pageant snuck into the bottom end of the top 20 most watched free-to-air multichannel shows, averaging 493,000 and a 3.9% share in the half hour from 1pm, and 479,000 and 4.3% in the preceeding half hour.
(20) The assault follows firefights in Malaysia's eastern Sabah state that killed eight police officers and 19 Filipino gunmen who in February snuck in by boat and claimed the land as part of a sultanate under a Filipino clan leader.