(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.
Junkie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem is that as a nation we have become promotion junkies."
(2) Hard to see the woman who once observed that “the creative winds of destruction don’t feel quite so exhilarating when they’re sweeping past your factory gates” embracing tech giants as uncritically as the tech junkie Osborne.
(3) Women are dead (McAdams), betrayed (Laurence) or embittered (Rita Ora, on hand as a “tough junkie with a kid to protect”, according to Harvey Weinstein).
(4) Frischmann would later confess to having lived the life of a 'sad junkie' between 1996 and 1998.
(5) I was an adrenaline junkie, in your face, always out.
(6) Across all three main parties, too many politicians have yet to understand the nightmare thus created: supposed value-for-money being realised via the slashing of wages, corrosion of conditions, and a degraded quality of service; or the reverse of cash savings, as contracting out creates private monopolies, and companies hailed for their dynamism turn out to be subsidy junkies.
(7) Tulsa remains Clark's most visceral book, an insider's view of a period in the mid-1960s when he was a teenager living what he calls, without irony, "the outlaw life" – shooting up speed, having sex with his strung-out girlfriends and hanging out with his gun-toting junkie friends.
(8) Happy, successful, stable people seldom inject smack, whereas most junkies suffered catastrophic childhoods, often in care and often abused.
(9) Unless we figure out how to make the important stuff really engaging, I don’t know that it reaches a broad audience.” Pariser said we’re moving into a period with a power curve where “news junkies have never had it better... but for most people who don’t seek out content about important stuff, and expect to just have it surfaced in their media environment may be having that happen less.
(10) Hang on a minute – Jonny Greenwood, programmer extraordinaire, guitar-obsessive , new-sound junkie, wants to give up electricity and electronics?
(11) Not all of us know someone with the incredible talent that Amy had but we all know drunks and junkies and they all need help and the help is out there.
(12) Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos is supremely confident that reviving the sitcom Arrested Development, which was made available globally online last night in a single 15-episode junkie-pleasing hit, will be the latest "slam dunk" in the video streaming service's mission to revolutionise the TV industry.
(13) Adrenaline junkies can try their hand at extreme sports.
(14) People don’t look on pain pills like you’re a junkie.
(15) The Bronx, which had been a bastion of desirable upper-middle-class living until the mid-60s, was now burning nightly; once-magnificent apartment houses going up in flames lit by junkies or landlords looking to dispose of buildings they could no longer let or maintain.
(16) "A foul-tempered Woody Allen," said the headline in the Times review of Juvenalia ; "if Lenny Bruce had not been a Jewish junkie," opined the Financial Times, "he might have turned out a little like Juvenal."
(17) As heroin had been banned in the interim, this only further served to stigmatize recreational opiate users, who were marginalized as junkies.
(18) I'm just an ordinary person, I'm not scum, I'm not a thief or a junkie, but when you are desperate you end up resorting to desperate means.
(19) This article describes developments in The Netherlands with a special focus on those issues that can be described as "typically Dutch": the divergent "opium-act," the methadone buses, the Junkie League, and the plans for heroin maintenance.
(20) While I was busy becoming a world-class junkie, the man from HIGNFY became mayor.