(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.
Lilt
Definition:
(v. i.) To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop.
(v. i.) To sing cheerfully.
(v. t.) To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
(1) All O157 serogroup isolates (n = 9) were hemolytic, and 89% (8 of 9) were LILT positive.
(2) Lu, who declined to give her full name for fear of reprisals, has a short bob haircut, a round face and soft, lilting voice that belies an undercurrent of outrage.
(3) During this performance Gaga will perform the title track from her forthcoming album ARTPOP and utter a line that sums up everything her fans love about her and her critics detest: "My art-pop could mean anything," she coos over a lilting electronic throb.
(4) The culture secretary's tone was softer than usual, devoid of lilt.
(5) With less demand for big-screen expressions of either cathartic angst or romantic wish-fulfilment, we have instead witnessed a kind of gay cinematic present-mindedness in small-scale, naturalistic, bittersweet titles such as Weekend , Keep the Lights On and I Want Your Love ; and a willingness to explore grief, so often deferred through the years of struggle, in the likes of Last Address , Tom at the Farm and Lilting , a forthcoming feature starring Ben Whishaw as a man in mourning obliged to deal with his late partner's mother.
(6) With his black cowboy boots and a lilting accent that seems to hint at the South, he looks an unlikely visionary for urban Detroit as he describes vegetable plots, fields and greenhouses, all the while wielding a hefty stick to keep away stray dogs and looking at burnt-out houses sometimes used as crack dens.
(7) It was with the appearance of the retired merchant navy man Norman, however, with his lilting Scottish accent and homemade "skateboard" presentation platter (it must be seen to be believed) that an entire nation fell in love.
(8) The children and the quartet, as a small chamber orchestra, play a lilting performance of "Autumn", 13 Stations of the Cross as backdrop.
(9) The opening film will be the European premiere of Hong Khaou's Lilting , which stars Ben Whishaw as a man in mourning for the death of his lover Kai.
(10) Sitting in the bar beforehand, Kate is dressed in Adidas tracksuit and trainers, every word she says doused in her south London lilt.
(11) Our common enemies remain economy-trashing financiers and poverty-paying bosses, whether they speak in an Edinburgh lilt or with the Queen’s English.
(12) Howson briefly joins us, sinking into a chair in the corner and addressing my questions in an undemonstrative West Yorkshire lilt.
(13) As am I. I could spend the rest of this piece delighting you with the wonders of the People's Republic of Cork – our smiling, clever, children, gentle lilting voices, our rolling hills but I'm going to assume you already know all this.
(14) The voice is strong, with a vaguely mid-western lilt.
(15) It's a beautiful voice with its educated, New England lilt of a kind that barely exists anymore.
(16) Songs, such as Gil's anthem Domingo no Parque (Sunday in the Park), had a lilting nonchalance, lent by the bossa nova style (a mix of African-Brazilian samba and cool jazz) they had inherited - and superseded.
(17) • I Am Divine is out on 18 July, Lilting is out on 8 August, and Pride is out on 12 September.
(18) While the video is kind of dull, the song is another quietly arresting slither of emotional pop, De la Torre’s hushed vocal sighing its way through a chorus of: “All I wanted was a man to be true, but that isn’t you.” Subtler and more refined than a lot of pop music at the moment, it even ends with a lilting whistling solo – and there simply aren’t enough of those.
(19) Twenty-seven nonhemolytic isolates were tested for enterotoxigenicity; of these, 45% (12) were LILT positive.
(20) Of all hemolytic isolates tested, 59% (10 of 17) were LILT positive.