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Dickhead


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Everyone: What kind of dickhead made him Tory party treasurer?
  • (2) But we should not allow the justice system alone to clearly delineate for us what makes a rapist and what makes, let’s say, a garden-variety dickhead.
  • (3) Despite sitting for 50 hours of taped interviews – scarcely credible, I know, given the drivel that follows – Julian decided there was no point in making himself look like an unstable, megalomaniac dickhead as his entire advance had been pocketed by his lawyers.
  • (4) Cameron: The same kind of dickhead that chose Andy Coulson to be my press officer.
  • (5) BBC presenter calls boxer Tyson Fury 'dickhead' on live TV Read more The corporation insists that the nominations for Spoty were made by an independent panel whose members included Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Baroness Sue Campbell, Jermaine Jenas and representatives from the national media.
  • (6) It’s like, ‘Well, you’re a dickhead.’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hysteria surrounding the Edinburgh fringe, where she took the show this year, only exacerbates her usual state.
  • (7) Khuilo is a Russian swearword that approximately translates as "fucker" or "dickhead".
  • (8) But pro-Ukrainian activists and members of the local football ultras, who along with Kharkov ultras originated the "Putin is a dickhead" song that has since become a nationwide cultural meme, have been fleeing for their own safety.
  • (9) "There was an unofficial biography of JK Rowling, and the writer referred to my dad, who was an actor when he was young, as an 'unremarkable actor' and I'm like, you've never seen him act, dickhead, you're basing that on nothing."
  • (10) Myrie looked at his watch, decided it was after the watershed and said: “You cannot be a dickhead and win the Sports Personality of the Year”.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The BBC’s Clive Myrie says Fury ‘cannot be a dickhead and win the Sports Personality of the Year’ The BBC apologised on Tuesday after the presenter Clive Myrie described Fury as a “dickhead” during a live TV newspaper review on Monday night.
  • (12) It does my surly wee dickhead credentials no favours to acknowledge the void David Attenborough will one day leave, but maybe it won’t be so bad.
  • (13) But radio-host-cum-dickhead Rush Limbaugh spent much of his next show mocking Fox's movements.
  • (14) Fury has been criticised since a November interview with the Mail On Sunday in which he said: “There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the devil comes home: one of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other one’s paedophilia.” BBC presenter calls boxer Tyson Fury 'dickhead' on live TV Read more The heavyweight has also been accused of sexism after a YouTube video emerged of him saying Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill “slaps up good”, before adding: “A woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back – that’s my personal belief.” The BBC has so far refused to remove Fury from the 12-person Sports Personality of the Year shortlist, with the winner of the award set to be announced on 20 December.
  • (15) Updated at 10.27pm GMT 10.08pm GMT Hunter Felt (@HunterFelt) @tomlangford7 @LengelDavid I think @Mobute said it best: "Philip Rivers is kind of a transcendental dickhead."
  • (16) Will Self sent the internet into tailspin on Tuesday with his takedown of “talentless hipsters”, more neatly referred to as “the dickheads”.
  • (17) Well, he’s a fucking dickhead, isn’t he?” the filth-monster himself responds when I tell him of his onscreen son’s verdict.
  • (18) Campaign strategies this time around have included an acrostic poem attacking a local Fairfax Regional paper, the Mandurah Mail, for being “Malicious Asshole Nutcases Dickheads” (it goes on, but we won’t).
  • (19) Russia said it would have no further dealings with Ukraine's foreign minister, Andriy Deshchytsia, after he was caught on camera over the weekend telling the crowds outside the Russian embassy that Putin was a "dickhead".
  • (20) Of course, I don't really think this is going to stop fashion obsessives from dressing like idiots any more than the similarly themed 2010 video Being a Dickhead's Cool did.

Idiot


Definition:

  • (n.) A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.
  • (n.) An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.
  • (n.) A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent.
  • (n.) A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thrasher Mitchell: Then why is that idiot Bernard Hogan-Howe getting a knighthood when his plebby plods tried to stitch me up?
  • (2) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
  • (3) But cowardly useful idiots of Warwick have banned @MaryamNamazie.” On Sunday night the union released a statement reversing the decision, which it stated had gone against normal procedures.
  • (4) Aren't the older generation always going to think kids are idiots?
  • (5) Treating voters like idiots doesn't often work – so the posters with a picture of a sick baby, saying, "She needs a new cardiac facility not an alternative voting system", or of the soldier, reading, "He needs bulletproof vests, not an alternative voting system", must surely be an insult too far to the public's intelligence.
  • (6) The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich.
  • (7) Who can complain of physical fear, of the nightmare of a baby eating its way out of your abdomen, of the loss of professional autonomy, staring at a stranger's idiotic grin?
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michael Flynn in 2016: ‘When you’re given immunity, you’ve probably committed a crime’ – video Vladimir Putin’s Russia is generally regarded as America’s mightiest enemy, however idiotic this might be.
  • (9) Whatever they'd gone through in the past, they were idiots for not understanding the modern world.
  • (10) If he was on the verge of becoming a "national treasure" to the minuscule percentage of the nation who could identify him by name were they shown a picture of him, this latest episode will have reminded them that there really are bigger and better idiots in public life to get behind.
  • (11) This is the most pathetic thing I’ve seen in my whole time in the United States Senate … I think they ought to stop posturing and acting like idiots.” Sean Spicer , the White House press secretary, branded the Democrats’ actions “embarrassing”.
  • (12) I picture myself at 80, the idiot who did something faddish instead of what people had always done and can never retire.
  • (13) But it is often said that only an idiot fights a war on two fronts.
  • (14) April 14, 2015 _Ds73_ (@darkeststar73) @sueperkins complete idiots think they can say what they like, glad we're not all the same !
  • (15) Many on the Right still view it as the epitome of all that was irresponsible, idiotic and dangerous about the Sixties, while many on the terminally fractured Left still mourn 1968 as the last great moment of revolutionary possibility.
  • (16) "But she also divides the critics like that other old-school oddball, Norman Wisdom, who was written off as a witless, irritating idiot with a penchant for falling over by some, and seen as a comic genius by others."
  • (17) "Oh, it says, 'You'll regret this one day, you idiot.'"
  • (18) 12.25pm: "Björn Lubbers mentioned in his email you posted at 10am that 'the Dutchies are a very friendly, hospitable and tolerant people, but humans will be humans and idiots will be idiots ...', emails Karin Prill.
  • (19) Every magistrate hears idiotic excuses from stupid criminals, but this is the DWP's unsubtle nudge that all claimants are fraudsters beneath the skin.
  • (20) I'll be cheering for Germany, and should we advance, hide my Germany-hat as deeply as possible in my backpack on the way home ... the Dutchies are a very friendly, hospitable and tolerant people, but humans will be humans and idiots will be idiots ... my cousin, also living in the Netherlands, is taking off his German license plate off his car and parking it deep inside an underground garage ...

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