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Jill


Definition:

  • (n.) A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jill McDonald, chief marketing officer at McDonald's for northern Europe, said today in one of her first public comments that she tackled the obesity crisis not just as a marketing executive but "as a mother".
  • (2) Ivanka Trump thinks she is in Beauty and the Beast: more like Macbeth | Jill Abramson Read more Later in the day, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said Trump was due to visit Siemens’ Technische Akademie, a vocational training college, and US architect Peter Eisenmann’s Holocaust memorial.
  • (3) In the end, Jill feels her decision was vindicated when her marriage broke up after she discovered he was having an affair.
  • (4) "It's very, very quiet," said Jill Cloke, owner of Upper Lynstone caravan and camping park in Bude, north Cornwall.
  • (5) Jill Treanor (@jilltreanor) Matt Damon joked as starts with golden globe speech he didn't give ... Before talking of his disbelief about lack of clean water January 21, 2014 Updated at 5.34pm GMT 5.24pm GMT Key event To summarise, the key message from the Pope is that Davos must make serious progress on fixing the economic system, and that business leaders must become more focused on fixing the world's problems.
  • (6) This week's victims, siblings Stuart and Jill, both love amateur dramatics.
  • (7) So I’m just really optimistic.” A Morning Consult poll released on Sunday put the four-way split at Hillary Clinton at 39%, Donald Trump at 37%, Johnson at 8% – he was at 9% in the same poll earlier in August – and the Green party candidate, Jill Stein , at 3%.
  • (8) Anna asks, practically hanging a bell round Jill's neck and herding her into a meadow.
  • (9) If local residential provision cannot, or indeed should not, be expanded quickly, "there has to be a really huge emphasis on quality rather than cost", argues Jill Sheldrake, director of social care at Together Trust, a charity that runs residential homes in the north-west.
  • (10) Paul Guard, who lost his parents Roger and Jill Guard , said nine people from his family would attend the service.
  • (11) First black senator elected in south since Reconstruction Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tim Scott smiles with his mother, Frances Scott, after winning his Senate race over challengers Jill Bossi and Joyce Dickerson in South Carolina.
  • (12) ‘Washington is offering no choice besides disaster’ Geno, 37, Pennsylvania, voting for Jill Stein I’m in that middle class suffering from decades of neoliberalism – involuntarily in debt, in a dead-end job because of health coverage and few options.
  • (13) During her pregnancy, it is likely the duchess will be attended to by the Queen's gynaecologist, who is currently Alan Farthing, the former fiance of the murdered television presenter Jill Dando.
  • (14) As USA was getting ready for a crucial semi-final against Germany this week, they were a little closer to their opponent than they would’ve liked: USA coach Jill Ellis said she almost walked into Germany’s meal room her first day in Montreal.
  • (15) Jill Treanor: Bank of England committee flags up housing market concerns 1.34pm GMT Photos: Protests in Athens School guards stand with their backs against policemen as they try to open a street.
  • (16) Rather, it's how women in authority – or, specifically, female bosses – are discussed, because English is incapable of dealing with this crazy female phenomenon, as demonstrated by the palaver following the sacking last week of Jill Abramson as the executive editor of the New York Times.
  • (17) A famed beauty, she went on to have a string of high-profile lovers, including Arthur Koestler, Cyril Connolly, Kenneth Tynan and Cecil Day-Lewis, who was married to her best friend Jill Balcon at the time.
  • (18) "[S]ome aspects of Jill's management of our newsroom" is how Sulzberger frames it .
  • (19) Jill Harth, woman who sued Trump over alleged sexual assault, breaks silence Read more After Access Hollywood host Billy Bush and Trump spend a few minutes making lascivious comments about actor Arianne Zucker, they meet the woman they were just objectifying.
  • (20) The company's chief executive for northern Europe, Jill McDonald, said the company was expanding despite challenging economic conditions: "Our continued focus on serving quality, affordable food and giving our customers a great experience is enabling us to keep investing in our business and creating jobs."

Jilt


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman who capriciously deceives her lover; a coquette; a flirt.
  • (v. t.) To cast off capriciously or unfeeling, as a lover; to deceive in love.
  • (v. i.) To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are now entire porn sites devoted to the "amateur" naked selfie and concerns have recently been raised that jilted lovers can seek their revenge by making explicit images of their ex publicly available online.
  • (2) Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth is a tirade of fury by two twentysomething journalists accusing baby boomers of selfish individualism.
  • (3) I became interested in marriage break up – the causes, signs and symptoms – and soon became fluent in separation jargon (the split, the broken home, marriage difficulties, the trial separation, the walk-out, the divorce, problems at home, the affair, problems in the bedroom department, the Dear John, the jilting).
  • (4) The Wedding Singer, in which he was a jilted groom performing 1980s pop hits and falling for Drew Barrymore, raked in $123m worldwide in 1998 and made a convincing case for him as a rom-com lead.
  • (5) The best was Jilted Generation by Ed Howker and Shiv Malik.
  • (6) She warns that our book, Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth , rallies "resentment against the sick and the elderly" and lines up pensions and the NHS for the chop.
  • (7) Jilted at the altar, First Choice went on to merge with the travel operations of Germany's Tui AG, creating London-listed Tui Travel.
  • (8) It portrays a driven and somewhat ruthless executive whose masterwork is a response to being jilted by his girlfriend and who is prepared to drop his closest friend, Eduardo Saverin, as he gets ahead.
  • (9) The problems of unstable and expensive housing, of poorly paid, temporary or for that matter non-existent jobs, and the irresponsible way in which Britain's public finances have been managed, are not illusory but affect the jilted generation most severely.
  • (10) The mass jilting of Labour by millions of voters was relatively recent, and limiting exile from power to one term is pretty rare in British politics.
  • (11) Rational self-counseling and psychotherapy can be effective in helping a jilted person work through periods of distress and may help to reestablish emotional well being and good mental health.
  • (12) Yet a jilted mistress or unpaid gangster would surely have just shot or stabbed him.
  • (13) Geraldine Bedell, editor of Gransnet, and Ed Howker, co-author of Jilted Generation: How Britain has Bankrupted its Youth, discuss whether a generational war really has broken out.
  • (14) Generation Rent have good reasons to feel like the jilted generation.
  • (15) Pass the hankies because that almost makes grown men weep, or holler for former favourites to be jilted.
  • (16) A cold-hearted miser bullied by ghosts into gaining a conscience has triumphed over a festering, jilted bride and an alcoholic, nihilistic barrister – not to mention the odd pickpocket and escaped convict – to be named the most popular Charles Dickens character.
  • (17) But the protest was a response to pent up anger of young people who feel they are being jilted at every turn.
  • (18) They are, as Guardian journalist Shiv Malik wrote, the Jilted Generation , who are set to be the first generation to do worse than its parents as far back as data goes.
  • (19) Yanukovych's decision sparked the biggest protests in Ukraine for almost a decade and sent relations between Europe and Russia into deep chill, as Brussels sees the Kremlin as bullying Yanukovych into jilting Europe in favour of joining a Moscow-led customs union.
  • (20) In 2014, Victoria became the first and only state to criminalise revenge porn, so called because of the prevalence of websites which made it easy for jilted lovers to post pictures or videos publicly that were intended for private use.

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