(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.
Uncool
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Lubbock-born Maines resisted joining the sisters initially because she thought they were so uncool, and her arrival was met with scepticism by the band's core Texas audience.
(2) They’re deeply uncool, and will probably also make people fear for the future of the country.
(3) Incredibly, despite countless opportunities for a career reassessment, from the guilty pleasures phenomenon to the seemingly endless 1980s revivals of recent years, Dire Straits have somehow remained steadfastly uncool.
(4) Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like – the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian 'improving' literature – you'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and, worse, unpleasant."
(5) Further, for News Corp to buy into such an untamed media property is to risk ruining it by making it corporate and by definition 'uncool'.
(6) With a reader equipped with an uncooled PM tube it was possible to measure doses of X- and gamma-rays in the range from a few rad to about 100 krad.
(7) Becoming a teenager carried with it an unspoken order to pass on school, collect 20 Marlboro Lights, and proceed to the playing field to master the art of inhaling without coughing up a lung and being tarnished with the original sin of being uncool.
(8) And yes, he is urban and slick and a bit cool, but at the same time he is conservative and Christian and serious-minded and a bit uncool.
(9) The distance the new uncooled milk had to be transported, especially during the hot summer months, increased the chances of milk-borne diseases infecting infants.
(10) The fertility of sperm cooled to 5 degrees C was not affected (p less than 0.05) as compared to fertility of uncooled sperm.
(11) A study was conducted to determine whether water-cooled floor perches would be utilized by commercial broilers exposed to a constant hot ambient environment; and subsequently, whether utilization of these perches would improve performance beyond those provided uncooled floor perches.
(12) After cooling and warming the larvae were transferred to 21 degrees C and the survival of larvae, success of pupariation, and adult emergence were monitored at daily intervals in comparison to an uncooled control sample.
(13) One young man asks who he's listening to these days and he gives a typically honest, uncool answer.
(14) Ihope my high-school sweetheart will forgive me for revealing an intimate secret about our teenage relationship: one that makes us so retrospectively uncool that some of our classmates may regret ever having allowed us to sit at their tables in the school canteen.
(15) So when I heard the news about its imminent demise I went to my corner newsagent and did something I'd been way too scared and uncool to do when I was 14: I bought a copy for myself, as opposed to waiting for my best friend to buy one and then nicking it off her.
(16) "Facebook is officially 'out', as in uncool," was the verdict of another California tech pioneer, Jason Calacanis, chief executive of the question-and-answer website Mahalo, calling for a boycott of the "not trustworthy" site.
(17) DOX disposition from skin and plasma was studied by high-pressure liquid chromatography in both cooled and uncooled groups of animals.
(18) "For Apple to be cool again," she wrote, "it has to admit that it is in danger of becoming uncool."
(19) We were trying to escape that thing you have at school where one of you will think Pretty in Pink by the Psychedelic Furs is great and someone who's got all the old stuff thinks you're uncool 'cause it's the first time you've heard them.
(20) Arcade Fire's trajectory is interesting for many reasons, not the least being that there is something refreshingly uncool about the band – their unflagging onstage exuberance, their typically Canadian politeness, their penchant for pre-show group hugs.