(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.
Souvenir
Definition:
(n.) That which serves as a reminder; a remembrancer; a memento; a keepsake.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4.16pm BST Pro-Russian militia members in Slavyansk are obligingly taking part in souvenir photo sessions with appreciative locals (note: not all the locals are appreciative).
(2) A bumper 16-page souvenir pullout will mark the end of its 30 years in print before it becomes the first national newspaper in the UK to go online only .
(3) BBC staff have taken so many souvenirs, Television Centre rooms left empty, says Victoria Coren.
(4) Team GB has a motto, which has adorned the back of thousands of souvenir shirts at the park and beyond, "Better never stops".
(5) It shows Fuleco, this World Cup's mascot, which never really caught on, being carried by security guards at the Fifa souvenir store.
(6) The advent of the railway age and the concept of tourism for the masses led to a boom in cheaper – and sometimes tackier – souvenirs.
(7) "It's not the case, as it once was, of rogue traders so much as organised crime, although of course we still get the tourists and holidaymakers trying to bring in souvenirs they've bought that they shouldn't have."
(8) The bestseller at the eclectic L'Oeuf at no 9 is its own South Pigalle range – branded sweatshirts, caps, kids' toys and bags – perfect souvenirs to let everyone know you have discovered SoPi.
(9) The Express cartoonist Carl Giles, then a war cartoonist, was given a Luger as a souvenir by the Commandant of Belsen after its liberation because the man was a huge fan of his cartoons.
(10) That skull was buried in 1960 in the courtyard of Cromwell's old college, Sidney Sussex at Cambridge, in an unmarked spot to dissuade ghoulish souvenir hunters.
(11) A comparison of the television and radio listings of that week 35 years ago with those of diamond jubilee week in 2012 shows that, even though the Radio Times published its own "souvenir issue", coverage of the event occupied significantly less broadcast time in 1977.
(12) Cleber Araújo, 36, was minding his souvenir store.
(13) It may not do so until it hears a right-to-life case or some other human interest story, however many visitors buy its souvenir mousemats or teddy bears wearing the court's logo.
(14) It has gone from a place of memory to a place of souvenirs.
(15) It should be packed now.” The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog | Jon Henley Read more Nicole Stael, who sells postcards, snow globes and souvenir plates, said that in the 40 years she had owned her gift shop business had not been so bad.
(16) Independent prints souvenir pullout as it moves to online only Read more There are two reasons for a widely shared sense of regret at the Indy’s fate .
(17) Now the white cross on a black background is ubiquitous, fluttering outside county hall in Truro and printed on everything from souvenir boxes of fudge to pasty packaging and car bumper stickers.
(18) Another avalanche of adulation is about to asphyxiate us; with glossy supplements on “The Greatest Reign”, exhibitions in royal palaces selling souvenir albums, and Douglas Hurd’s gushing biography, Elizabeth II: The Steadfast .
(19) • 2814 North 16 Street, barriocafe.com CULINARY HEROES FnB Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Jill Richards Photography Among the Native American souvenir stores of Scottsdale old town, is the excellent FnB, a truly forward-thinking, showcase for the state’s native produce in veg-centric dishes: salad of persimmons with hazelnut, kohlrabi, dill and goat’s cheese.
(20) He continued to live off his notoriety, posing for photographs with tourists in exchange for money, selling souvenir T-shirts that commemorated his escapes, scrabbling for crumbs from the media table and charging tourists £40 for a barbecue at his house.