(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.
Hunky
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "I have always been of the mind that the idea somehow Google had got through everything and now it was hunky-dory was a bit hopeful.
(2) But I’m sorry, Mr Mayor, you have lied to us about enough other things that we are not going to take your word for it that things are just hunky dory in the building behind us.
(3) As the prime minister used to do as chancellor when he was conning us that everything was hunky-dory and tickety-boo, we were constantly told how lucky we were to be in Britain, and not one of those other benighted countries such as Germany, where there is no growth.
(4) They had a wonderful time at Cannes, were widely feted, and everything seems hunky dory today.
(5) Thoughtfully, the owners have filled it with hunky miners who are mostly naked.
(6) However, the fact that #SameOldLabour is a trending hashtag in the Twittersphere proves that not all is hunky dory.
(7) First there was the interminable meeting of the White Council and Radagast the Brown's bunny sled in An Unexpected Journey, then Tauriel the sassy she-elf and her previously unheralded romance with Kili the hunky dwarf in The Desolation of Smaug.
(8) (There's a particularly hunky Jesus by Caravaggio in the Vatican's own collection, if Francis wants to mosey over to the gallery after work one day.)
(9) He was who you went to when you needed gothic cheekbones, zanily self-aware camp, and even leftfield hunkiness.
(10) Also like Michael, I got as far as "the furniture buying stage" with a hunky Marine recruiter who successfully wooed me with a plastic medallion that read: "The Marines Are Looking for a Few Good Men".
(11) In Paul Feig’s version, it’s Kevin: a ditzy blond hired for his hunkiness not his shorthand.
(12) But he was as male as a wild animal; hunky, husky, sensual, and incoherent or rhapsodic, depending on which style worked best with the young woman of the moment.
(13) If only we had been in recession, then nobody would have come and everything would have been hunky-dory.
(14) As Maupin's novel sequence progresses, Mary-Ann's Nancy Drew-style adventures lead her to a less than glorious career in daytime television, while Michael's lead him, via heartbreak and HIV, to (serial) true love and a suitably hunky career in gardening.
(15) "But if they think that a smiling Rouhani will get sanctions lifted and everything will be hunky dory without giving something substantial to the west, they may be surprised."
(16) Photograph: Joan Marcus The understated adaptation of Robert James Waller’s overblown love story The Bridges of Madison County featured numerous sex scenes between Kelli O’Hara’s winsome farm wife and Steven Pasquale’s hunky photographer.
(17) The closest thing to a hunky moron Britain's ever sent us is Robert Pattinson, and I'm pretty sure he's faking it.
(18) It began at 9am with a screening of Oliver Stone's new action film, Savages , in which Aaron plays Ben, a sexy Californian dude who produces high-grade marijuana and lives in blissed-out harmony with his equally hunky best buddy, Chon (Taylor Kitsch), an Iraq war vet, and their shared squeeze, O (Blake Lively), who is equally in love with both of them and not averse to the odd skunk-fuelled threesome.
(19) As we know from his songs about them on Hunky Dory , Bowie had other formative American influences: Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol.
(20) Plath described Hughes as "that big, dark, hunky boy, the only one there huge enough for me".