What's the difference between gaby and simpleton?

Gaby


Definition:

  • (n.) A simpleton; a dunce; a lout.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Along with a lengthy list of cameos, Girls actor Gaby Hoffmann and Party Down star Martin Starr appear as former Neptune High classmates new to the Veronica Mars universe.
  • (2) There’s a real potential to make a difference to people’s lives Gaby Stewart There is no doubt that working in prisons, for professionals from any field, is challenging.
  • (3) | Gaby Hinsliff, Gary Younge, Polly Toynbee and Giles Fraser Read more It should go without saying that these are the people the Labour party was founded to represent .
  • (4) Gaby Hinsliff Everyone wants their own Sturgeon now Where do we find a Nicola Sturgeon?
  • (5) Gaby Bertin, the press secretary, will also grow in influence, as will the cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood.
  • (6) "If a mainstream politician had described the holocaust as the 'holocon' or listed the Jews in the media – from Michael Grade to Gaby Roslin – they would be hammered," he says.
  • (7) A simple free-kick from Gabi about 35 yards out is sent into the box and all Raúl García, who is located near the back post, has to do is jump and head the ball past Abbiati.
  • (8) Not only did the success of Girls propel Dunham to the status of poster-girl for a generation of floundering millennials, but watching back it’s easy to spot plenty of other now-familiar faces: Adam Driver, Gaby Hoffman, Desiree Akhavan and Jenny Slate to name a few.
  • (9) Tambor’s children are self-involved, sexually confused and in the middle of various life crises, with Girls star Gaby Hoffman particularly impressive as listless youngest daughter Ali.
  • (10) The substitute Correa finished off a lofted pass from the captain, Gabi, leaving Deportivo in 13th place in the table and still without a league win in 2016.
  • (11) Journalist Gaby Hinsliff, who decided to resign from her job as political editor of the Observer two years ago, wrote movingly about the difficulties she'd experienced trying to balance a round-the-clock career with family life.
  • (12) Awkward | Gaby Hinsliff Read more The “work penalty” – as some have begun calling the cuts to tax credits – will not just hammer poorer voters, who disproportionately tend to either vote Labour or not vote at all.
  • (13) 10.06pm BST ET 18 min: Gabi foolishly gifts Real possession as he trots upfield aimlessly.
  • (14) I once associated the actor Gaby Hoffmann with cuteness thanks to her youthful appearance in films such as Sleepless in Seattle and Field of Dreams.
  • (15) Although I don’t remember his birth, I remember Dad taking me to our local Chinese restaurant for a celebratory meal: a tradition we honoured in some form or another when each of my other siblings – Lizzie, Gaby and Josh – was born.
  • (16) Then Gaby Sanchez took off for no reason whatsoever and also got gunned down.
  • (17) This year, they are novelist Susan Hill, writer and journalist Matthew d'Ancona, political diarist Chris Mullin and Gaby Wood, head of books at the Telegraph .
  • (18) Photograph: Photoshot Gaby Hoffmann Former child star of Sleepless In Seattle and Uncle Buck is back as Adam's nightmarish sister in season three of Girls .
  • (19) But if Simeone’s half time change– Jesús Gámez for Gabi – seemed to suggest resistance 10-men Atlético emerged stronger and applied pressure once more.
  • (20) Gabi, the Atlético midfielder, will also be banned because of a yellow card but it is clearly not ideal for Mourinho that he now has to rely on Schwarzer for the remainder of the season.

Simpleton


Definition:

  • (n.) A person of weak intellect; a silly person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reading your post I couldn't help but think tonight's simpletons had undergone a similar experience."
  • (2) But these simpletons are absolutely determined to find their seat.
  • (3) There’s a really big willingness to help here in Germany and a mind-boggling number of people that are doing lots for refugees, who are not racist, and I think it’s their voice that should be dominant rather than a handful of simpletons who think they should stir up hatred.” This article was amended on 7 August 2015 to correct the name of the news programme on which Reschke made her comments
  • (4) Maybe because I am a simpleton and sometimes can only process what I can see – the actual sky, rather than invisible cyberspace in which data blips through fibre-optic cables.
  • (5) George W. Bush was a Texan simpleton who took more time playing golf on his computer than deciding on executions while governor.
  • (6) Responses to Doyle’s tweet included one from another Twitter user who asked : “What has a Muslim woman in Croydon, got to do with the horrific events in Belgium, you simpleton?” Another, referring to the far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, asked : “Did anyone accost you on the streets of Croydon after the Brevik shooting in Norway?
  • (7) Which is also to say, for younger visitors, that the exhibition could even be seen to reduce Diana to the big-spending simpleton who was castigated in Anthony O’Hear’s revisionist essay of 1998, as shallow and self-obsessed.
  • (8) He is by no means the simpleton played by Peter Sellers in Being There, but, like Gardiner, every utterance, however gnomic, is now thought to contain a greater truth.
  • (9) And Navracsics’ hastily put together statement from yesterday seems to only repeat the same category error, a simpleton bureaucrat mantra trying to dodge the absurdity of the EU apparently having no responsibility to give any support to the EU’s own youth orchestra.
  • (10) These use the character of Lennie, the gentle simpleton who doesn't know his own strength from Steinbeck's 1937 novel Of Mice and Men, as a benchmark, with the court writing: "Texas citizens might agree that Steinbeck's Lennie should, by virtue of his lack of reasoning ability and adaptive skills, be exempt" .
  • (11) "I was a simpleton last Saturday evening at Melbourne Park."
  • (12) My husband is pointing out, veeerrryy slowly, as if to a simpleton, that this would involve us trebling our current mortgage.
  • (13) A dverts for insurance comparison websites have long treated the British public like a shower of infantilised simpletons.
  • (14) Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson rapped over "special needs" joke This time it's media regulator Ofcom tut-tutting after Clarkson describes the Ferrari F430 Speciale as "a bit wrong ... that smiling front end ... it looked like a simpleton ... [it] should have been called the 430 Speciale Needs".
  • (15) I liked the idea of an island with a vocation – all islands should have one, surely – and Tico took great pleasure in instructing me in the difference between primary and secondary Atlantic rainforest (simpleton that I am, I thought all forest was good, but Tico tut-tutted every time we passed a coconut palm), and even more pleasure in skipping up the 990m Pico do Papagaio while I lumbered behind.

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