(n.) A person who makes a business of taking care of people's hands, especially their nails.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tale of native American Pocahontas's love for an English captain in 17th-century Virginia and her journey to England, it made much of innocence versus colonial exploitation, contrasting the lush, wild vegetation of America with the manicured gardens of England.
(2) Some express nostalgia for the manicured city centre of the old days.
(3) Here's Bey and Jay, smoking a cigar in what looks like a well-manicured garden!
(4) There are three typical types of manicure: the regular polish; the gel or acrylic spatula-shaped talons beloved of the tabloid Wag; and the super-cool, bejewelled nail art more commonly seen in either east London or Japan.
(5) Whenever there's an alternative popular movement that grips the national imagination, left-ish commentators and journalists fight whitened tooth and manicured nail for public alliance to this season's worthy cause of resistance.
(6) The manicured lawns of Mill Waters sweep down to the Thames at Cookham, the Berkshire village where Stanley Spencer painted.
(7) Now, look at the art at the tips of our perfectly manicured hands!
(8) Night-time in Búzios is when its cobbled and immaculately manicured central area really comes alive.
(9) This manicured façade at Fifa, which made $1.3 bn from selling the global rights to the football World Cup, has now been shattered.
(10) The Wag style, with its manicured nails, high heels, huge false eyelashes and tiny dresses, is as feminised as it can possibly be – underlining these women's status as possessions, part of the package for footballers.
(11) When we came to London we finally went to the Blitz , and we thought, “This is it?” Because it was all so manicured and nice.
(12) Something I don’t generally depend on my manicure for, however, is warding off rapists.
(13) It is rare for me to stay out of the bar like I did last night but knowing that I had to get up at five in the morning, I decided for once to be sensible," he says as he sits in the basement of his Times Square Virgin Megastore waiting for yet another well-manicured American news anchor to show up and interview him.
(14) The snails collected by filter paper in an experimental area were marked with manicure and released in the same area.
(15) The institute is in the middle of a huge industrial estate, albeit the richest, most innovative and manicured industrial estate in the world, otherwise known as Silicon Valley.
(16) But in 2012, a whole wave of fearless gay New York rappers are stepping out and sticking two well-manicured fingers up to the notion that there is no room for them in hip-hop.
(17) Its two whitewashed, self-catering bungalows are just steps from the historic cobblestones but far enough away to give a sense of isolation while you lounge around in poolside in hammocks surrounded by manicured tropical gardens.
(18) Casas da Comporta, Alentejo Don't be fooled by the sleepy, slightly ramshackle air: Comporta is where Lisbon's fashion and media set come to get some sand between their perfectly manicured toes.
(19) Meanwhile, to reassure its foreign partners, the UAE has built the world's greatest labour camp, complete with manicured cricket grounds, a chess centre, a multilingual library with works by Ayn Rand and Barack Obama, the UAE's first multi-denominational prayer hall, film screening rooms, tug-of-war competitions, a coffee shop and landscaped grounds.
(20) I loved my manicures and pedicures, and driving around in my BMW and I believed that life wouldn't be OK without a just-out-of-the-oven croissant and a cup of Earl Grey tea in the morning.
Sinecure
Definition:
(n.) An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
(n.) Any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service.
(v. t.) To put or place in a sinecure.
Example Sentences:
(1) And once in the top job, there is little incentive to change anything: mandarins, says Gumbel, "can't be fired … at worst they're 'put in a cupboard', meaning shunted off to a low-profile job or a comfortable sinecure".
(2) More likely, he’ll continue his oleaginous slide into a six-figure sinecure at a place like the Heritage Foundation, where regular-Joe conservatives punting $35 donations to “stop Obamacare” can fund his farting out four blog posts per month.
(3) I had always assumed that everybody had always assumed that Andy’s former job as “UK trade envoy” was merely some sinecure designed to get the Queen’s second son between golf courses without any boring little people making a fuss about who was paying for the helicopters.
(4) This is a development institution for the planet, not a sinecure for allies of whoever is sitting in the White House – even when it is Mr Obama.
(5) According to BlackBerry, it certainly wasn't a sinecure - not at all.
(6) Patten had treated the job as a sinecure, "and nothing you have said has changed my perspective".
(7) The current holder of this well-paid and undemanding sinecure, Sir Alex Allan, tried to convince the select committee that he would be proactive and would not be sidelined.
(8) But also, because he leads a government that must provide sinecures for Liberal Democrat as well as Conservative MPs, and because an outright election victory looks increasingly unlikely, he can't buy their affection or hold out the prospect that they will be rewarded if only they delay gratification.