(n.) A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy.
(n.) One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.
(n.) That which is hoped for; an object of hope.
(v. i.) To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; -- usually followed by for.
(v. i.) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in.
(v. t.) To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of.
(v. t.) To expect; to fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
(2) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
(3) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(4) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(5) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(6) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
(7) I’m hopeful but I just can’t get over all my experiences in the past.
(8) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(9) HDAra-C in combination with anthracyclines is now considered to be a treatment which may afford some hope of a cure in a certain percentage of cases of adult acute non-lymphocytic leukemia.
(10) Many hope this week's photocalls with the two men will be a recruiting aid and provide a desperately needed bounce in the polls.
(11) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
(12) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(13) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
(14) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
(15) "For a better world, not only for the Iranian people but for the next generation across the globe, I earnestly hope that President Rouhani will receive a warm welcome and meaningful responses during his visit to the UN."
(16) "I hope that he has the sleepless nights I have had for the past five weeks because my son sustained horrific injuries."
(17) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.
(18) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
(19) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(20) A case is presented of deliberate chewing of the flowers of henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the hope of producing euphoria, and an account is given of the poisoning so produced.
Hypocrite
Definition:
(n.) One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a republican I, like Mr Corbyn, would be a hypocrite to sing this.
(2) Therefore, according to this view all high-ranking Libyan officials were intrinsically self-serving hypocrites.
(3) She said: “We felt it would be quite hypocritical [to have a church wedding] when it’s not really what we believe in.
(4) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(5) The hypocritical Greens remained absolutely silent while these projects were advanced, but now they feign an interest.
(6) Now he says it when he’s rich, he’s a hypocrite.
(7) But they are usually less accepting of hypocrites and liars, and especially those that challenge the establishment with such vehemence.
(8) This position is both morally bankrupt and hypocritical.
(9) For London's mayor had not only long refused to meet the RMT leader, but only a month before rather encouraged the public to misunderstand him by making hay with Crow's supposedly hypocritical cruise trip and accusing him of "holding a gun" to the head of the capital ?
(10) April's family had to endure the "spectacle of your hypocritical sympathy for their loss and of your tears", the judge told Bridger, saying any tears were motivated purely by self-pity.
(11) It's convenient to project that back on to someone personally and say they're a hypocrite.
(12) He will back Johnson’s assessment, while also saying it is hypocritical for the government to continue with arms sales to the region.
(13) But nothing in the photographs of Gaddafi wounded, dead, dragged through the streets, and finally on display, rotting in public, has been anything like as disgusting as the thoroughly hypocritical and self-deceiving international reaction to these pictures.
(14) Of course, this is totally hypocritical: their ideology is based on denying national statehood, so they are against establishing a Somali state.
(15) I wasn't attending to its meaning as I said it, and if I thought about it, I felt a hypocrite.
(16) Men in public life, meanwhile, are increasingly unsure whether it’s worse to embrace feminism (hypocritical bastard!)
(17) "I'm not a hypocrite, I'm not going to lie to people but if it was impossible I would say," he said, before defining the necessary "miracle" as "three wins and a draw."
(18) They and other ideologues in the extremist movement saw this lack of unity – rather than the US, "hypocrite, apostate" regimes in the Middle East or the supposed lack of faith of other Muslims – as their biggest problem, at least in the short term.
(19) Ed Balls's bluster is confused and hypocritical when the reality is he'd do it all again," Fallon said.
(20) Worse, it actually helps deflect anger from the Nigerian politicians robbing their own people to the “hypocritical west which acts holier than thou while helping steal our money”.