(n.) A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a new book just published called So Far, So Bad , written well before the Closer farrago, French journalist Cécile Amar, quotes Trierweiler confessing that "François has no emotion".
(2) The truth is that Britain's defence strategy has become a farrago of dogmas, traditions, maxims and cliches, most of them born of the second world war, the cold war and Tony Blair's fixation with fighting Muslims.
(3) The answer does not lie in false techno-fixes or the faux-democratic farrago of the government-business funded Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef .
(4) #birdsonaplane #starlingsindistress May 8, 2017 The farrago reached its denouement, according to Dolganov, when airport staff played a recording entitled “starlings in distress” to try to scare the bird away, but it was never found and the flight was cancelled.
(5) These Super Sunday-ish collisions are so often presented in a farrago of swirling overstatement – seasons defined, destiny shaped, lives ruined, civilisations decimated – but Wenger will take encouragement from this performance.
(6) Actually, I lied – that is not the weirdest thing about this whole farrago.
(7) It is the dance up on the stage, which looks a farrago, that seems the distraction.
(8) From a farrago of post-feminist disdain, that last judgment was the most eccentric of all.
(9) The Death Star - the set of next #StarWars film at @PinewoodStudios to see benefits of film tax credits August 13, 2015 There’s good and bad news about the spin-offs Kennedy revealed to EW that Disney-owned Lucasfilm are still working on the ‘anthology’ film, rumoured to focus on bounty hunter Boba Fett, the film from which Josh Trank was unceremoniously dumped in April at the height of the whole Fantastic Four farrago.
(10) Frankly, when he was reappointed 18 months ago this World Cup was turning into a nightmare for the host nation, a farrago of structural problems, vertiginous anxiety and a team who had slipped to 22nd in the Fifa rankings.
(11) Further evidence that the Spaniard is unaffected by the Real Madrid transfer farrago came when Patrick van Anholt raced clear.
(12) But I just couldn't do it; I got stuck, wrote this farrago of a play.
(13) The biography of Mr Nuttall that has appeared at times on his website appears to be a complex farrago of exaggerations, half-truths and untruths that have unravelled as his run for the vacant Stoke-on-Trent Central seat has put him under more scrutiny than usual.
(14) Every last one of them was a farrago of wonkishness, insincerity, and cliche, polemical half-truths and bits of old stump speeches, mashed-up press releases and policy statements, reheated for popular consumption in some of the dullest American prose imaginable.
(15) I suspect the non-dom farrago is also a moral issue and the fact that 115 non-doms pay £9bn in income tax – and the government could lose serious money – doesn’t matter.
(16) Supporters of The Weinstein Company point out that the production company had dropped the earlier copyright claim prior to the farrago surrounding The Butler .
(17) What a farrago of self-regarding, self-congratulatory self-exculpation it was!
(18) Beyond the Farage farragos, one Demetri Marchessini, a Ukip donor, paid for an advert in the Telegraph to announce his abhorrence of homosexuality.
(19) The answer is Mail Online , an inspired farrago of rolling clickbait that has been a runaway commercial success for its corporate parent ever since it was launched.
(20) The farrago Trump has created on healthcare is consequential and shameful.
Hotchpotch
Definition:
(n.) A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.
(n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than £600m has been spent on the massive universal credit project, intended to replace a hotchpotch of benefits and tax credit topups with a simple, single monthly payment to claimants that would include a "subsidy to work".
(2) As David Cameron prepared to deliver his "aspiration nation" speech to the Conservative conference in Birmingham, 110 miles away in Margaret Thatcher's former constituency a hotchpotch alliance of squatters, retired booksellers, local bloggers and international anti-capitalist activists whooped as a district judge blocked attempts to close a vibrant community library that has popped up in the shell of one controversially closed as part of the Conservative party's most radical experiment yet in shrinking local public services.
(3) The grimy streets of central St Pauli, a rough neighbourhood where sailors once passed their time on shore, are lined with a hotchpotch of trendy bars, clubs and music venues – as well as the handful of seedier establishments which made Hamburg infamous.
(4) The Marwood in The Lanes, for example, is a wonderful hotchpotch of reclaimed bits and pieces with old cupboard doors as table tops and even Apple Mac hard drive towers as stools.
(5) We knew what was required: in cases like ours, to stand any chance of meaningful success, you need a truckload of informational wherewithal, the will to fight, and the money to hire a good lawyer – which, at a stroke, scythes out millions of parents, who are left with only piecemeal help, and hotchpotch provision.
(6) We confront the problem with an unedifying hotchpotch of neuroses and political spasms that ensure we never truly see it in the round, never discuss it rationally and never get to grips with it.
(7) At the heart of every movie, all made on small budgets and drawing on a hotchpotch of British and European money, there has been a cause; from the Spanish civil war ( Land And Freedom ) to the Contra insurgency against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua ( Carla’s Song ), from trade union rights in the US ( Bread And Roses : the only film he has made in North America) to Ireland’s war of independence ( The Wind That Shakes The Barley ) and, most of all, the struggle for work, dignity and justice ( Raining Stones , Sweet Sixteen , It’s A Free World , My Name Is Joe , The Angels’ Share – basically all of them ).
(8) The deputy prime minister admits the plan has failed, blaming the creation of a "hotchpotch of schemes".
(9) Tarantino's genre hotchpotch might have made for something of a soundclash, but its highly entertaining din might be just the clarion call required to shake fresh life into the genre.
(10) Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, said Brown's statement was "nothing more than a hotchpotch of unrelated Whitehall schemes, a ministerial cut and paste job".
(11) She spent 18 months in the cabinet at the ministry of culture, overseeing a hotchpotch of responsibilities from ballet and broadband to table tennis and tourism.
(12) He, along with his predecessor, is too spineless to stand up for the gay minority, and exposes his church as incapable of living up to the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 1, "all human beings are equal in dignity and rights", and nothing more than a hotchpotch of amoral stone-age superstition.
(13) It was a hotchpotch of a speech, providing neither inspiration nor challenge.