(v. i.) To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.
(v. i.) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock.
(n.) An expression of sarcastic scorn; a sarcastic jest; a scoff; a taunt; a sneer.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the government has dismissed environmental concerns about Gibe III.
(2) Why would any member of the opposition wish to undermine this with cheap gibes, straight from the bar stool?
(3) And in a sign that it intends pursuing its mega dam strategy – and avoiding having environmental groups damage efforts at getting funding from international lenders, as has happened with Gibe III – it is looking east for help.
(4) Much of the money goes on mean-spirited negative campaigning of the kind that saw off the Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in the 2011 election with gibes about his years away from Canada.
(5) The 93-mile long reservoir created by Gibe III will stretch to the tail of the 420MW Gibe II power project, which was opened in January by the Italian construction company Salini.
(6) Danger dams Ethiopia The Gibe III dam on the Omo river in Ethiopia threatens about 200,000 people from eight tribes in the Lower Omo valley.
(7) With a price tag of €1.55bn (£1.39bn), Gibe III was always going to require external credit.
(8) At least 200,000 people from eight tribes are threatened and a further 200,000 people will be adversely affected by the Gibe III dam on the Omo river in Ethiopia .
(9) Every statistician is familiar with the tedious “Lies, damned lies, and statistics” gibe, but the economist, writer and presenter of Radio 4’s More or Less , Tim Harford, has identified the habit of some politicians as not so much lying – to lie means having some knowledge of the truth – as “bullshitting”: a carefree disregard of whether the number is appropriate or not.
(10) According to the Oakland Institute, these groups' existence is under "serious threat" as they are forced off their land to make way for the Gibe III hydroelectric dam project, road-building and commercial investors.
(11) China's biggest state bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China , may fund Gibe III in Ethiopia, to be Africa's tallest.
(12) Sinohydro had already agreed to build the 1,600MW Gibe IV dam further down the Omo, a project sure to generate further controversy.
(13) The author gibes a review of suicide problems in Norway.
(14) Nor would it be inappropriate since Hope, whom Time magazine once called "an American folk figure", was on intimate terms with every American president since Harry Truman, at all of whom he directed inoffensive gibes.
(15) At 243 metres the Gibe III dam will be the highest on the continent, a controversial centrepiece of Ethiopia's extraordinary multibillion-pound hydroelectric boom.
(16) Gibe III, which will have a generating capacity of 1,870MW – double what was available in all of Ethiopia last year – has sparked the greatest opposition.
Jape
Definition:
(v. i.) To jest; to play tricks; to jeer.
(v. t.) To mock; to trick.
Example Sentences:
(1) Impassioned shouty pointy Arsenal man, Romelu Lukaku's hotel japes and Jonathan de Guzman giving Dirk Kuyt a very black eye are all part of this week's Classic YouTube .
(2) Mel and Sue, providing jolly japes about buns and so on, are just like Ant'n'Dec for the Guardian reader.
(3) Gray drew strongly on his relationship with his brother, 10 years his junior and also a writer and academic, for Japes, his 2001 success.
(4) And although we undertook the exercise as a bit of a jape, something else about the results stood out: the greatest talking up of a turnaround was in the rightwing papers.
(5) She even had Alexa, an old children's home pal, turn up for some japes.
(6) In fact, there was a sinking feeling once the japes of his final show – the tandem trip with Boris, the guest gag with Michael Howard, the signoff weather forecast – took hold.
(7) He dressed up as Santa Claus He made both managers wear festive hats He replaced the pre-match coin toss with a Christmas cracker What japes He gave every mascot a mince pie Lionel Messi was born in which city?
(8) Actually, the Mill just threw in that last one for japes.
(9) Where once there were pub japes, there are now spreadsheets.
(10) Farewell to the awful swotters, dirty tinkers and jolly japes: Enid Blyton's language is being dragged out of the 1940s by her publisher in an attempt to give her books greater appeal for today's children.
(11) Elise Andrew is "overwhelmed" and "blown away" when she looks at the Facebook page she created as a jape and which has nearly 7 million likes and more than 3 million "talking abouts" and fans including evolutionary biologist and writer Richard Dawkins and TV host Bill Nye, "the science guy".
(12) It was to mark the beginning of the final flowering of his career, during which he wrote three of his finest plays, including The Late Middle Classes and, latterly, Japes.
(13) Not to mention a fart machine and perpetrator of other mad, pointless and preposterous one-time-use pranks, japes and wheezes.
(14) Gray confidently and, as it turned out, inaccurately, predicted that Japes would be his last play.
(15) But behind the jokes and japes lies an unpleasant party founded on fear, one that exploits the anxiety of older voters and is proving to be a profoundly corrosive influence on British politics.
(16) Mulberry had fun with storybooks, English boarding school japes and a pooch on the catwalk wearing the label's most luxurious dog-wear to date, a sheepskin-trimmed and padded parka jacket; Anya Hindmarch themed her collection on Quality Street wrappers, provided a tea trolley and rode a bicycle.
(17) asks JUSTIN SPENCER, whose caps lock button appears to have been glued down by a colleague as part of some hilarious office jape.
(18) This, though, is the light stuff: university japes, boys being boys.
(19) Let's preserve the mystery and say only that what Richard did falls outside the category of jolly japes.
(20) When he brought George W Bush to the constituency in 2003 , the US president’s twin black Sikorsky helicopters had to land in a nearby field, before Dubya alighted for the jape of seeing how a British leader lived.