(n.) A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's been the league MVP for two years in a row, he's the reigning NBA finals MVP, he led Team USA to a gold medal in last summer's Olympics, he's on this year's All-Defense first team, oh and there's that Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year thing … OK, you get the idea, there's a lot of compelling evidence out there that suggests that the dude knows how to play basketball.
(2) @neopeo : Dude at work took 7 hours to get in to work this morning.
(3) If Kyrgios cares about his career – and sometimes he is so blase about his success, wealth and celebrity he professes to hate tennis – the hip young dude from Canberra who smirks when he should be smiling, who plainly is struggling with fame, needs to understand he is not the only clown in town.
(4) How does it stop?” And a dude in his early thirties who looks like a 6ft-3in brick wall says, “Everyone on my block did that.
(5) But it was in westerns that Peck's dour integrity showed itself best: unshaven and tough in Yellow Sky (1948); a dude learning to adapt to the west in The Big Country (1958); and obsessively after the men who raped and killed his wife in The Bravados (1958).
(6) He's 27 today, and shares his birthday with [frantic googling] Stuart Broad, Vernon Philander, the dude who played RoboCop, fellow football genius Kevin Nolan.
(7) He's a man of many names: The Walking Dude, The Ageless Stranger, He Who Walks Behind The Rows, The Man In Black, Walter O'Dim, The Dark Man.
(8) In other tweets she wrote: "I was on the balcony, dude with machine gun came up and told us to go in and locked it … we asked if they had a search warrant, they said the person who issues warrants is in building & doesn't need to issue one for himself.
(9) The comedian, who calls President Obama "dude" to his face and gets away with it , has promised nothing more than "fun" for the tens of thousands he hopes to draw to the National Mall in Washington DC.
(10) A lot of bad ‘dudes’ out there!” Taken at his infantile word, Trump literally makes no sense: having campaigned on a Muslim ban, Trump now believes he has taken all those bad dudes by surprise with the same ban.
(11) I know what you’re thinking; this Duterte dude sounds like a sophisticate on the world stage, but he isn’t the only person to have strayed near the edges of acceptable diplomatic language.
(12) "This is the first time we've been able to throw out an idea like, 'Dude, it'd be cool to have a gospel choir', and it wouldn't get shot down."
(13) 1 | The Dude ... from The Big Lebowski Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jeff Bridges as the Dude.
(14) Maybe it’s because all these dudes were not the first choice of the women of their youths […] But they can make it in tinseltown and perpetuate the desperate delusion that they are powerful.” She says she has no real hope of a comeback.
(15) American sanctions against Rosneft, which have frozen the Russian firm out of US capital markets, had not had any impact on BP, Dudely said.
(16) As I was introduced, my husband heard a dude say to his mates, “Oh, look, a chick.
(17) In a break from filming, Pratt described his character as a "roguish space dude who's socially stunted and essentially still very much a child".
(18) It’s the infectious daftness of the whole thing; the claret-hurling ultraviolence; the inability of Jessica Lange to be anything other than an absolute dude even when spouting some truly preposterous nonsense, the reset system at the end of every season – meaning each is its own standalone tale with the cast in different roles.
(19) Italy are going out in the first round, a dude has just won a tennis match at Wimbledon 70-68 in the fifth set and New Zealand are just one kick of a football away from making it through to the last 16 of the World Cup.
(20) You wanted your own person, I know this because you virtually told me Gordon, so just chill out dude, we are not going anywhere.
Effigy
Definition:
(n.) The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Will I get burnt to death in a giant effigy of a man woven from wicker?"
(2) Rybak was indicted for inciting hatred last year after burning an effigy of an orthodox Jew during a protest against Muslim immigration.
(3) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
(4) Today, they pitch up outside Buxton Opera House, unpack an 8ft effigy of Big Ben and an even bigger gibbet, and – oh, yes – hang parliament.
(5) There has been little media interest in the campaign, with some of the most recent reports about the US president concerning the burning of effigies of him to protest against a blasphemous anti-Islam film posted on YouTube.
(6) A crowned effigy of the justice secretary, Chris Grayling , as King John clamped in the stocks was carried past parliamenton Monday as the government-backed Global Law summit celebrated the approaching 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
(7) There’s was lots of stuff going on there – arrests, burning effigies – and not a peep in the press.
(8) Some women carried an effigy of a female version of the Philippine president, Benigno Aquino III, which will later be burnt in opposition to his policies, especially regarding issues such as aid distribution in the aftermath of typhoon Haiyan and privatisation of hospitals in the city.
(9) They brandished an effigy of the head of the ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
(10) The statement also rebuffed the proposal of dialogue with the South again, saying it would refuse talks unless Seoul apologised for its "monstrous criminal act" – a protest by 250 people in the capital on Monday during which effigies of the North's former leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, were burned.
(11) "No," reassured Lynch, "Eigg's sea name is Isle of the Big Women, so most probably it will be an effigy of a woman with giant boobies."
(12) They really don’t have the kinds of problems that they are protesting about that deserve the burning of effigies.
(13) In his Sunday Telegraph article, Paterson said Greenpeace burned an effigy of him and that he received death threats.
(14) Sussex police said they had been withdrawn following complaints on social media, but pictures emerged of one of the effigies at the centre of a fireworks display.
(15) Was this an ordinary car wreck, or were the two women, who had previously been threatened, shot at and burned in effigy because of their efforts to register black voters, targetted on that road?
(16) Here are some photos from the scenes: A group of demonstrators hold a mock coffin with an effigy of Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy during a protest against Spanish government austerity measures, on 15 September 2012.
(17) At one point, angry locals even burned an effigy of him.
(18) Is it an effigy of a sad girl looking defeated made out of pistachio sponge and marzipan?
(19) But it seems that the Salmond effigies were spared the flames after complaints were made.
(20) They threw rotten eggs and stones at the embassy compound, and the effigy was set on fire before being thrown over the high walls.