(n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.
(n.) A stupid, awkward, inefficient person.
Example Sentences:
(1) They’re throwing everything they’ve got at this and, while there are bound to be a few duffers in the mix, you can bet that your mum will end up loving at least one of them.
(2) The West End debut of Keira Knightley will irresistibly get all the headlines and shift a lot of the tickets, though the rest of the cast of The Misanthrope – including Damian Lewis, Dominic Rowan and Tara Fitzgerald – are not exactly duffers.
(3) For the first time in years, the BBC has taken the contest seriously, stung by criticism from viewers and the rest of the continent that despite the UK's musical heritage it ends up entering duffers.
(4) Asked if the children may go on an adventurous sailing-and-camping expedition, the absent father replies, heartlessly: "Better drowned than duffers if not duffers will not drown."
(5) When the New York Times reporter Don Van Natta Jr played with Clinton in 2000, the duffer-in-chief simply replayed any of his stray shots, leading Van Natta to conclude that "[Clinton] followed the rules .
(6) Hardly anybody eats the stuff beyond a few old duffers nostalgic for the bad old days when protein was scarce, and a few ridiculous rump-imperialist uyoku.
(7) As a joke doing the rounds in Delhi put it, the three national-party candidates were a Duffer, a Bluffer and a Muffler.
(8) My hunch is that the old, badly informed duffers at the top of the BBC who took this perverse decision have yet to actually sit through Sun, Sex & Suspicious Parents .
(9) What says "This is my world now, you past-it old duffer" more than being tossed your child's defunct smartphone?
(10) Precocious rapid sleep duffers from usual one in an inclusion into the dream content the experimental situations and their emotional saturation.
(11) Firebrand lawyer and human rights campaigner Asma Jahangir caused a sensation by delivering a television tongue-lashing against "duffer" generals who, she said, were more interested in running wedding halls than defending their territory.
(12) The duffer was Rahul Gandhi; the muffler referred to third-party leader Arvind Kejriwal's habit of wrapping himself in a scarf.
(13) Katie Allen (@KatieAllenGdn) Carney on review post forex rigging stories: we can't come out of this with a shadow of doubt about the integrity of the Bank of England March 11, 2014 George Mudie MP, though, isn’t impressed -- accusing Carney of acting like his predecessor Sir Mervyn King by passing the buck onto other people; either the ‘old duffers’ on the Bank’s Court, or to FCA boss Martin Wheatley.
(14) It's good of you to put on a much more lavish show for us than you did for that old duffer, Gordo.
(15) Louis van Gaal is a duffer all over again after supervising three defeats in a row – the light aeroplane on duty at Anfield might soon be back here at this rate – while Tony Pulis is a genius once more for all but securing safety for his side at the most intimidating of venues.
Suffer
Definition:
(v. t.) To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.
(v. t.) To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.
(v. t.) To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience; as, most substances suffer a change when long exposed to air and moisture; to suffer loss or damage.
(v. t.) To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.
(v. i.) To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient; as, we suffer from pain, sickness, or sorrow; we suffer with anxiety.
(v. i.) To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.
(v. i.) To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(2) To the remaining patients who suffered from severe insomnia, 7-chloro-5-(2-chlorophenyl)-1,3-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one (chlordesmethyldiazepam, 2 mg orally) was administered for 7 consecutive evenings.
(3) The occurrence of episodes of desaturation during sleep in patients suffering from chronic airflow obstruction is well known.
(4) Ninety-five per cent were suffering from chiasmal compression pre-operatively.
(5) Efficacy and tolerability of perorally administered desmopressin were evaluated in 12 adult patients suffering from central diabetes insipidus.
(6) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
(7) He said the 8.13am train from the French capital to London reached Calais before suffering “network problems”.
(8) The results confirm that physical training is clinically effective in patients suffering from claudication.
(9) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(10) This paper reports on observations of five families suffering from distinct thrombophilia due to a protein C defect.
(11) Huth, a Stoke player for more than five years, has made only one Premier League appearance since suffering a knee injury in November 2013.
(12) To treat children suffering from the nephrotic syndrome, use was made of the membrano-stabilizing agents: zaditen that also has an antiallergic action; dimephosphon, a membrano-stabilizer and immunomodulator.
(13) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
(14) The authors present an analysis of the results of laboratory immunological examination of 52 patients suffering from recurrent respiratory infections.
(15) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(16) This paper raises other issues for consideration, including problems associated with HIV testing, confidentiality, informed consent and the dilemmas facing those involved in the treatment of patients suffering from HIV infection.
(17) A neonate, with a postconceptual age of 29 weeks, suffered thrombosis of the aorta as a consequence of umbilical artery catheterisation.
(18) Instead, we suffer sporadic exhibitions, which they call consultation.
(19) Studied were the clinical symptoms manifested by both the pigs exhibiting cannibalism and by those that suffered, following up a number of biochemical indices.
(20) The authors have studied the different situations that prompt a request for genetic counseling if different members of the same family suffer from cancer.