(n.) One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.
(n.) One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lisbeth Salander is a violent and emotionally uncommunicative tattooed and much-pierced goth who grew up in care, and has had serious mental health issues.
(2) Sorrentino, who won the best foreign language film Oscar for The Great Beauty, has worked with English-speaking actors before, having cast Sean Penn in his goth-rocker road movie This Must Be the Place , which was selected for the Cannes film festival.
(3) Megan Carpentier: I hoard SPF 70 like liquid gold I’m white even by the standards of white people: not only did I earn the nickname Caspar growing up (long before I went goth, thanks for asking), but in the summer of 1998, which I spent studying in Munich, three random Germans stopped me on the streets over July and August to ask if I was feeling okay because I was so pale.
(4) Results of a recent study (FRITSCH and GOTHE 1979) have lent support to the hypothesis that immunosuppression can be induced by an inhibition of antigen processing by macrophages through a membrane-stabilizing effect of the chemicals under investigation.
(5) With bands such as the Banshees and the Bunnymen opting for lavish orchestrations, Bush now seemed less like a throwback to pre-punk times and more like a sort of posh auntie to the goths.
(6) Snow, one of the 280 SuicideGirls, explained the scene to the Boston Globe : "There's punk, goth, alternative - everyone is involved in music and arts.
(7) Following that came the superior Tommy Heavenly6, for which she adopted a goth-lite style and made rollicking 90s-style alt-rock.
(8) She looks pale and withdrawn; the only evidence that she's Charli XCX , spiky goth-pop starlet, are the six-inch platform Buffalo trainers hanging from her feet.
(9) As well as offering thousands of looks that could transform a suited dandy into a health goth and back again, there are also boutiques in the basement that will bleach your hair, wax your bottom, even pierce and tattoo you if you wish.
(10) The This Must Be the Place award for potentially dubious goth-rocker act In 2011, Sean Penn's Robert Smith-alike in the Paulo Sorrentino drama got tongues wagging and heads shaking.
(11) Even those pantomime granddad goths, Black Sabbath, got their first number one album after 46 years .
(12) Even today, Smith bristles slightly at the term "goth", not because he dislikes the term, but because "it's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band … we were like a raincoat, shoegazing band when goth was picking up."
(13) Looks a little groovier than her responsibilities might suggest: partial to uniformly black, goth-ish attire, and red patent boots.
(14) "When I started writing with her," Green says, "I realised there was something almost goth about her … There's something kind of haunted or grave about her delivery."
(15) Eternal Cannes bridesmaid Pedro Almodóvar, too, went home empty handed for The Skin I Live In, as did Paulo Sorrentino's goth-odyssey This Must Be The Place, which had been tipped to win an acting award for Sean Penn as a washed up rocker.
(16) Betty Harris, rather half-heartedly dressed as Mary Wollstonecraft in a modest outfit from M&S (I think of Wollstonecraft as more of a goth), said: "This is the problem in a nutshell – when I looked up Mary Wollstonecraft in a dictionary, it said: 'See under Godwin.'"
(17) The Animentals range from the depressed Goth penguin Pingoth to the highly unstable Furball.
(18) Our neighbouring north London branch, Gothic Valley , is the WI's first goth group, though you don't have to be a goth to join.
(19) This Must Be The Place (2011) starred Sean Penn as an ageing Goth rocker and met with a lukewarm reception.
(20) At 15 he became a goth for pragmatic reasons – he had a series of goth girlfriends.
Vandal
Definition:
(n.) One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.
(n.) Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.
(a.) Alt. of Vandalic
Example Sentences:
(1) "The problem in the community is that the elderly who live on their own on ground floors are frightened to open the windows because of vandalism and burglary," he says.
(2) There could be no doubt who these deliberate vandals were, either: unelected members of the House of Lords, and the 48% of the country who failed to vote for Brexit.
(3) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
(4) Will Francis, director, Vandal London Facebook Twitter Pinterest Will has worked with a variety of global brands including Net-a-Porter, Samsung, Spotify, Microsoft, Warner Music and Nike Foundation to innovate in social media, something he’s been doing since his days as editor of MySpace in the mid-late noughties.
(5) They know the truth, as we did on Saturday, that the march really could be the start of a fightback against economic and social vandalism.
(6) Vandals have spray painted the word “evil” across a far north Queensland mosque – an act the local mayor describes as deeply saddening.
(7) "We must make sure that those who want to advertise [with] women's images in the city can do so without fear of vandalism and defacement of billboards or buses showing women," he has said.
(8) Clegg also defended the right of local authorities to consider evicting the families of vandals and looters but stressed that the issue had to be dealt with carefully and sensitively.
(9) A cost-benefit analysis indicated that potential savings, primarily in reduced vandalism but also in reduced police and fire costs, greatly exceeded the cost of mounting the program.
(10) In response to Rousseff's promises and concerns about the vandalism that followed clashes with police, the organisers plan to set new guidelines for the protests.
(11) In the micro-economics of obscure music promotion the vandalism of a cloth cyclops dispenser could be the point at which your break-even point disappears over the event horizon.
(12) The chief of public security said that such acts of vandalism did not come under the definition of freedom of expression protected by the law.
(13) Cemetery remains exposed through vandalism or natural phenomena are frequently brought to the attention of law enforcement agents or medical examiners.
(14) There’s no graffiti, no vandalism and scarcely any crime.
(15) I can already feel it piling into the garbage segment of my political memory, so that one day in the future, Javid’s oaths will have become I, the undersigned, do hereby promise to defend John Major’s cones around Theresa May’s racist vans , protect them from the vandalism of ridicule, because that is the British way; to tolerate views you disagree with, including this stupid oath.
(16) Being a toddler, she toddled a bit; she knocked over a bottle of Dettol spray, and in a staggering act of pre-school vandalism, broke the nozzle.
(17) This violence and vandalism is disgraceful criminal behaviour.
(18) Public school vandalism was investigated with a sample of students in 7th through 12th grade.
(19) "This behaviour was criminal behaviour," said Johnson of the recent riots – but in the past his attitude to vandalism has been more nuanced.
(20) They have been reviled as vandals, hooligans and lunatics.