(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.
Example Sentences:
(1) While others chose the rather more funky hotspot Kreuzberg, "Bowie was more at home" there, says Claudia Skoda , a fashion designer friend.
(2) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
(3) Right on the beach is this traditional, yet funky, taverna run by Nikos and the talented Magdna.
(4) Yes, but given how much we like spectacle of others suffering, that might only be a matter of time – hangings downloadable to your funky new Google glasses .
(5) Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives And there are two full-sized live-music venues: a vast, hangar-like space that also features a food concession – form an orderly queue for Funky House Party In Your Mouth Cheesecake ($4) – and a smaller room decked out to look like a nightclub.
(6) There is an increasing number of boutique hotels – I spent a night at the super-stylish Estalagem in nearby Ponta do Sol, which has recently opened a cheaper, funky sister property, Hotel da Vila .
(7) When I was nine, Walk On The Wild Side was number 10 in the charts, and there had never been a record so languid and funky and cool and sexy.
(8) Touring with them, and more recently with the Dead Weather, where he is not the guitarist but the drummer (and a powerfully funky one, too), the challenge is to succeed with that band, on its own terms.
(9) The short stories are published by the Connemara-based Doire Press publishing house Where to stay The House Hotel is a rather fancy boutique-style hotel with funky furniture, helpful staff and a late bar.
(10) This is not your average dorm-style accommodation: there’s a funky-cool aesthetic throughout the bedrooms, shared baths, and common areas, which include a patio bar and screening room.
(11) He is just so eminently castable – classically trained, poised, yet with a hint of offbeat funkiness and with the most luxurious voice since Richard Burton.
(12) Y’all don’t look like press to me,” adeadpan Prince announced at the start of a set largely composed of new material but also including a cover of Play That Funky Music and a version of his song I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man.
(13) The track I’d play to show off my eclectic tastes Front 242: Headhunter Facebook Twitter Pinterest In Chicago we have a lot of clubs that play industrial and punk music that I find funky and soulful.
(14) Click here to watch Major Lazer perfomring at the Reading branch of the festival With the event clearly no longer the bastion of male guitar rock, female musicians are a big hit this year with Haim 's funky LA party jams proving the perfect soundtrack for the end of summer.
(15) That’s a dog.” I tell him about my quest: a search for the perfect funky small American town, a place with a buzzing homespun coffee shop and a great little deli, a town with some youthful exuberance and a shared passion for the great outdoors – plus, of course, friendly bookshops such as his.
(16) Further down the line lay the Notting Hill riots of 1958, Joe Harriott at Ronnie Scott's, the Notting Hill street carnival, the Equals singing Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys, the Clash singing Police and Thieves, football fans throwing bananas at black players, black players becoming international captains, Lenny Henry offering to be repatriated to Dudley, Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, the Brixton and Toxteth riots of 1981, Janet Kay trilling Silly Games on Top of the Pops, Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors, the London Community Gospel Choir, the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zephaniah turning down an MBE, pirate radio, natty dread, funki dred, drum'n'bass, dubstep, grime, Dizzie Rascal.
(17) • Six-person cabin from £143 a night mjoeyri.is DENMARK Birkedal, Møn Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fun, funky and – if filled to capacity – affordable, this eye-catching home is formed of nine cylinders fused to form a three-bedroom villa for six.
(18) They are in white; West Germany are in their funky epilepsy-inducing green away kit.
(19) I walked across People's Square, Shanghai's municipal hub, with its modern Grand Theatre, whose transparent plastic walls and sweeping concave roof give it the appearance of a giant funky ashtray, and the Shanghai Museum, shaped like a saucepan complete with handle on the top.
(20) Stephen Drew, Will Middlebrooks and Jacoby Ellsbury will bat next as the Sox look to snap out of their funky mess of a slump.
Funny
Definition:
(superl.) Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.
(n.) A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
(2) The reality is I like football so much, I miss football, and when I have the chance to be back I will come back.” Mourinho, who was joined by his agent Jorge Mendes to speak to children at the NorthLight school as part of the Valencia chairman Peter Lim’s Olympic scholarship, added: “It’s quite a funny career.
(3) The name suggests it is a clever but funny channel that it's OK to like.
(4) He just look sideways and for some reason it’s funny.” But Clement himself names Rhys Darby, aka the Conchords’ manager, Murray, who plays a werewolf in Shadows, as the funniest man he has ever worked with – even if he does appear in “too many ads”.
(5) Take feedback when it's offered In common with all the other judges on Show Me The Funny, I'm not entirely comfortable with judging other comedians.
(6) And then her drug use got harder, and more desperate, and then it wasn't funny any more; and then, when she was trying to clean up, she was dead, gone to join "the stupid club", as Kurt Cobain's mother described all the rock stars who end up dead at 27.
(7) Christine Langan of BBC Films told Screen Daily: "Compelling, funny and moving, Gold is a gem of a story and BBC Films is proud to be participating in bringing it to an international audience."
(8) When we had a morning practice session, and some players were a bit sluggish, he would call them out to the middle of the pitch and shout: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!’ When I read this story about Leicester, I just started laughing because all those funny moments with him came rushing back into my head.” That Ranieri has a sense of humour is hardly new information.
(9) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
(10) So like I said, it’s funny to be a woman, in a world that judges you solely by what you do with your vagina: whether any babies have come out of it, and what you are doing with it.
(11) And if you're really funny, then provided you're not punching people when you come off, or stealing people's belongings, then you'll get a gig.
(12) The first time I heard about legislation banning " homosexual propaganda ", I thought it was funny.
(13) But it was funny and interesting also because it really showed that, maybe, I can still bring something to a team.” This will be Drogba’s second departure from Stamford Bridge having initially left for Shanghai Shenhua in 2012 in the immediate aftermath of his winning penalty in the shoot-out against Bayern Munich which saw Chelsea claim the European Cup .
(14) Even so, the whole thing was knocked together for a fraction of a normal commercial and it's a pretty funny spoof of a cliché-ridden car advert.
(15) "It was a funny afternoon," said Pardew whose side have won seven and drawn one of their last nine Premier League games.
(16) In his five-star review for Time Out New York , David Cote calls it "gobsmackingly funny".
(17) First in line was Conservative Richard Fuller, who he believed was looking at him in a funny way.
(18) Funny on its own, even funnier with funny music playing beneath it .
(19) The Gogglebox people are all nice(ish) and funny(ish), qualities vital to keep at bay total self-loathing that we are gathered as a family, watching on telly other people watching telly.
(20) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.