(n.) A professional mourner who wails at a funeral.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I met him in 1988 he seemed far keener to discuss Core than Concrete Bulletproof Invisible, the short-lived band that he and Shaw had then started with the former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock.
(2) Son of a baronet It also plays to the most damaging caricature of Osborne, as the privileged son of a baronet, keener on protecting his wealthy friends than helping ordinary Britons: something he has fought hard to shrug off by introducing his “national living wage”, for example.
(3) He is keener on numeric grades that could see around 10% of pupils awarded the top grade 1.
(4) The striker has a £25m release clause in his contract and after scoring 28 goals in 38 appearances in all competitions this season, Arsenal are keener than a dog on heat to secure his services for next season.
(5) But for all their talk of patient safety the doctors too have sometimes appeared keener on their own interests than they have looked like professionals preoccupied with the wellbeing of their patients.
(6) There is a keener awareness of the difficulties and intricacies involved in the construction and evaluation of clinical trials and results.
(7) Ministers believe that major companies involved in developing offshore wind technology – such as Siemens, Vestas and General Electric – will now be keener to invest in Britain, knowing it is committed to a huge expansion in renewable energy.
(8) Japan has become keener on free-trade agreements but may baulk at dismantling its agricultural protectionism.
(9) They have become sharper judges – student satisfaction surveys already reflect that – and will become all the keener after next year.
(10) Regrettably, no doubt, for those who are keener on the purification of public discourse, online censors seem disinclined to regulate with any consistency.
(11) The idea that we would be keener to pay tax if we knew exactly how it was to be spent is one of the most persuasive in modern politics.
(12) Rather, it's the more insidious tropes that I'd be even keener to eat my porridge without.
(13) The idea is that people will be keener on moving from one bank to another if there is more transparency about charges and interest rates .
(14) The Daily Mail, which is keener on making MPs accountable than it is to making newspapers that routinely attack them equally accountable, is cross: "Worse than meaningless," it thunders, quoting in support leftish bodies such as Unlock Democracy and greenish Tory MP Zac Goldsmith , whom it usually disaparages.
(15) "We have a leadership that seems keener on impressing the Conservatives as to how much we can be relied upon to take 'tough' decisions, than on asserting how much the Conservatives need us in order to remain in government," Sanders wrote.
(16) As in 2005, people are also keener on small fixes such as changing lightbulbs than on things that would push up prices or force people to live differently.
(17) The boys run down to the water’s edge in their float vests and plunge in, keener than on the day we started.
(18) Nicolas Cage , Elizabeth Banks, Catherine Keener, Kevin Kline and Paul Reubens are also said to be in negotiations.
(19) In the last few years the international donors have been keener to fund more development-orientated support in Libya, and in situations like this one in Libya, there is less capacity for a rapid humanitarian response,” he said.
(20) One person keener than most to advertise those numbers is Sir Michael Wilshaw , since they reflect his four-year tenure as chief inspector of schools.