(superl.) Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.
(superl.) Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed.
(superl.) Loose; dissipated; lewd.
(n.) An ornament
Example Sentences:
(1) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(2) Russian anti-gay law prompts rise in homophobic violence Read more “The law against gay propaganda legitimised violence against LGBT people, and they now are banning street actions under it,” Klimova said.
(3) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
(4) This must mean that many same-sex contacts are by people who do not consider themselves gay or bisexual.
(5) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
(6) The Conservatives are offering the gay community no new measures to remedy the remaining vestiges of homophobia and transphobia .
(7) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(8) It also pledged support to a veterans’ group that rejected a request by a gay, lesbian and bisexual group to march in the St Patrick’s Day parade in Boston.
(9) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
(10) As for gay men, there is absolutely nothing that suggests they are any less war-happy than heterosexuals.
(11) However, the gay and human rights activist Peter Tatchell has called the investigation “excessive”.
(12) To which Salim replies: “But you do.” When such intimacy between two men can be broadcast to an audience of millions, we are shown that the ways of portraying gay sex can be reframed.
(13) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(14) America's same-sex couples, and the politicians who have barred gay marriage in 30 states, are looking to the supreme court to hand down a definitive judgment on where the constitution stands on an issue its framers are unlikely to have imagined would ever be considered.
(15) I think a long time ago television passed up movies in terms of a reasonable and balanced portrayal of gay characters.
(16) I knew I was gay since I was in elementary school, but I wanted to serve my country,” Gravett said.
(17) The writer John Lanchester concedes that democracies will always need spies, but reading the Snowden documents persuaded him that piecing together habits of thought from internet searches takes things far beyond conventional spying: “Google doesn’t just know you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do.
(18) Obama said that amid the febrile focus on the shooter’s terrorist radicalization, the fact should not be forgotten that he had targeted a gay nightclub.
(19) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
(20) She said she was not worried by Rubio’s one-time position on his immigration bill, later retracted, that he could not support reform if it included citizenship for gay couples.
Screamer
Definition:
(n.) Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family Anhimidae, and the suborder Palamedeae. They have two spines on each wing, and the head is either crested or horned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It's been another frustrating night," said Pearson, after Harry Kane's header proved an insufficient response to a close-range Troy Deeney volley and a 30-yard screamer by Nathaniel Chalobah.
(2) 48 min: The busy Di Maria cuts in from the right and unleashes a screamer towards the top-left corner.
(3) In contrast all true geese, the Mute Swan as well as the Northern Blackneck Screamer contain lysozyme g in their egg white.
(4) 36 Real Madrid 7-1 Celta Vigo , La Liga, 5 March 2016 Ronaldo blasted four goals in 26 second-half minutes, starting with a 25-yard screamer, adding a curling free-kick from the edge of the area, finishing from close range for his hat-trick before heading home his fourth, turning what had been a close contest into a rout.
(5) Vocal cord nodules have a variety of synonyms in the literature, including laryngeal nodules, laryngeal nodes, corditis nodosa, singers' nodes, teachers' nodules, screamers' nodes, parsons' nodes, and nodular laryngitis.
(6) 63 min: Frank Lampard tries to score with a left-footed surface-to-air screamer from 25 yards.
(7) United equalised through Stuart Pearson, and though Tony Towers belted home a screamer with ten minutes remaining to regain the lead for the visitors, Jeff Clarke scored an own goal with less than 180 seconds left on the clock.
(8) One of them, a dipping screamer against Uruguay, is the goal of this World Cup to date.
(9) 71 mins: Steven Gerrard sends a screamer blazing over the bar from a few yards outside the box.
(10) The first had a crystalline internum and was found only in the order Anseriformes, which included the black-necked screamer, ducks, geese and swans.
(11) It falls to Musa, though, who unleashes an absolute screamer from the edge of the box and into the top of the net.
(12) Brazil 0-7 Germany (Schurrle 78) That is a sublime finish from Andre Schurrle, who roofs the ball into the top corner with a diagonal left-footed screamer from about eight yards out, on the left side of the penalty area, after Germany had turned Marcelo inside-out again with yet another attack down the left.
(13) I’m not massively into the screamers, because I think sometimes fellas just hit it and there’s an element of luck over whether it flies into the top corner or over the bar.
(14) Southampton march on after Sofiane Boufal screamer sinks Sunderland Read more
(15) The Frenchman shoots first time and sends his surface-to-air screamer high and wide.
(16) As she crossed the line I felt like old man Beckham must have felt when David fired home that screamer against Greece in 2001 .
(17) Tottenham’s other strikers, Emmanuel Adebayor and Roberto Soldado, were not a part of the squad in Munich, as they negotiated transfers away from the club, although Pochettino said that Soldado was still a part of his plans: “He did not come here because there was a problem with his back but he is in our plans.” Tottenham played well and they took the lead early on when Chadli scored a screamer from the edge of the area.
(18) He explained his screamer against China in the group stage in rather more simple fashion: 'The truth is that I just fix the position of the target in my mind, close my eyes and try to hit it as hard as possible.'
(19) The goal went in, a screamer against Sheffield Wednesday which put Ibe into the record books as Wycombe’s youngest ever goalscorer, and he made straight for his family standing behind the perimeter fence on half way.
(20) Remember his screamer against Juventus at Anfield in 2005?