(a.) A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.
Example Sentences:
(1) But since Snowden leaked secrets on western government spy operations in 2013, Silicon Valley’s leaders have been cautious of seeming too cozy with Washington’s three-letter agencies, which also include the FBI and the CIA.
(2) Outside the forum’s cozy bubble, Vladimir Putin’s hand is everywhere.
(3) However, since Edward Snowden leaked western government secrets to the Guardian and other outlets in 2013, Silicon Valley has become increasingly cautious about seeming too cozy with Washington’s three-letter agencies.
(4) Birnbaum and her agency came under withering criticism from lawmakers of both parties over lax oversight of drilling and cozy ties with industry.
(5) Like his rival, Bush could be vulnerable to accusations of elitism and a cozy relationship with Wall Street .
(6) Valley News reported that Salinger's former home, now "filled with little cushions, crystal china and fabrics in warm pinks and oranges, reflects three decades of use by the Littlefields, but still conjures impressions of a cozy writer's den".
(7) Analysts and the US government suspect an official hand behind the breach of the DNC’s emails – and there is a developing theory that a Russian hacker named Fancy Bear and another hacking team believed to be tied to a competing Russian intelligence service, known as Cozy Bear, were working in concert.
(8) Cozy Bear has dug into the state department the joint chiefs , and the White House , said CrowdStrike, which analyzed those hacks.
(9) The faux-outrage from the right about the AWU cozying up to employers is something to behold, given that conservatives have long insisted the Labor party distance itself from precisely those unions that win the best outcomes for their members.
(10) Gidwani says she’s heard very little from Cozy Bear as her firm tracks malware and phishing attacks.
(11) It shows him to be opposed to all innovation in the Church and above all, during the dictatorship, it shows he was very cozy with the military," Fortunato Mallimacci, the former dean of social sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, once said.
(12) Saturday afternoon at Jill’s Place, a cozy bistro in wealthy Santa Barbara, might have marked the first time in a long time that Hillary Clinton looked genuinely happy on the campaign trail.
(13) The leaks, in particular, have helped bring about an astonishing reversal in the administration’s handling of Russia – from treating Putin as cozy partner to world menace.
(14) The Washington press corps was dilatory in its investigative reporting – valuing access and cozy relationships with senior officials above the search for truth; ultimately, the media served as lapdogs rather than watchdogs.
(15) In an appearance on Charlie Rose's television show, Geithner responded to the charges that he is too cozy with Wall Street by saying, "You know, I'm deeply offended by that," Geithner said.
(16) The journalists' silence was unfortunate but, sad to say, a reflection of most media companies' coziness with the rich and powerful in America and around the world.
(17) The species differs from E. cozi, which is the only other species of the genus, by having a sligtly larger size and a very little pronounced cephalic constriction.
(18) Joe Conason, who covered Murdoch at the Village Voice throughout much of the 70s and 80s, called Cohn “the lynchpin” of Murdoch’s cozy relationship with Reagan.
(19) In the UK, the prime minister, Theresa May, has come under fierce criticism for cozying up to Trump, including holding his hand at the White House and inviting him to a state visit to the UK, while showing reluctance to criticize his immigration stance.
(20) Tessa Jowell and Jon Cruddas were also about, but this was the year the new Tories – Michael Gove , Rory Stewart and David Willetts – arrived to cozy up to the liberal establishment before slashing the arts budget.
Dozy
Definition:
(a.) Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head.
Example Sentences:
(1) England will not delude themselves that this match, and with it the series, was lost because of a single piece of sharp practice by Sachithra Senanayake – or even, if they take a more self-critical approach, one moment of doziness from Jos Buttler and a separate breakdown in communication between the wicketkeeper and Chris Jordan.
(2) Even economists weren’t dozy enough to miss that the fact that the same pound paid for Britain’s imports, meaning that after devaluation it bought fewer goods, and therefore domestic prices would go up.
(3) Peculatities of background electrical activity of some projection regions, the I somatosensory (field 53), and I and II auditory (fields 22 and 52, respectively), visual (field 17) and associative cortex (field 5), were studied in chronic experiments, performed on unanesthetized dozy cats.
(4) This isn't the dozy, middle-aged PBS that Seiken shocked into YouTube action.
(5) For those who believe in the survival of the fittest, the only surprise was that this apparently lumbering, dozy and sexually inadequate species had clung on for so long.
(6) "It is excellent that the OFT has announced this investigation – at last, dozy officialdom is waking up to the abuses in leasehold, ranging from small-scale Rackmans to huge corporate players.
(7) They are charming and decorative and have fulfilled my hopes that they would prove more lively and adventurous than my two dozy, stick-in-the-mud, non-laying Marans hens.
(8) My grandmother gave him hell when we got back because I was still dozy.
(9) It is an island without law.” **** Dozy had not set out to find gold in 1936; his goal was to scale the region’s highest glacial peak.
(10) We need to invest in ensuring that data [will] be there for everybody to use.” Poor monitoring renders millions of elderly people worldwide 'invisible' Read more Speaking last month at the first Africa open data conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Dozie Ezigbalike, chief of the data technology section at the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa, said giving people access to information would allow them to hold their governments to account.
(11) Still dozy, clutching her sheets and blankets, they would head for the cold stairwell.
(12) But Lescott soon made up for that by exploiting equally dozy defending by Southampton , guiding the ball into the net from close range after a corner by Veretout.
(13) Everton 1-2 Swansea City: Premier League – as it happened Read more Even so it was a surprise when they took an early lead through some unforgivably dozy home defending.
(14) During the 4,800-metre ascent, Dozy noticed an unusual rock outcrop veined with green streaks.
(15) The department of health was dozy, with Frank Dobson and then David Blunkett in charge.” A senior civil servant, now retired, who worked in the department for transport but asked not to be named, said that cost-benefit studies of a switch to diesel were done by government but climate change was “the new kid on the block” and long-term projections of comparative technologies were not perfect.
(16) The front, for example, is a twee, unnecessary Nigel Waymouth photo of Drake the Homely Folkie sitting moon-faced and dozy-eyed pouring over a Spanish guitar and fronted by a pair of “bumper”-styled brothel-creepers.
(17) And it really does not work with dozy policymakers.
(18) A lack of segregation, caused by the Football Association of Ireland reselling tickets in English sections to Irish fans, and a security operation that was not just complacent but outright dozy, did not help either.
(19) In 1936, Dutch geologist Jean Jacques Dozy climbed the world’s highest island peak: the forbidding Mount Carstensz, a snow-covered silver crag on what was then known as Dutch New Guinea.
(20) Next, Daniel Libeskind proposed the Spiral , a large, jagged, teetering addition to the V&A whose aim seemed to be to startle Exhibition Road out of its doziness.