(n.) A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.
Example Sentences:
Moony
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the moon.
(a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.
(a.) Silly; weakly sentimental.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experience: I escaped from the Moonies Read more I don’t feel sorry for her.
(2) Pakistan Name: Moonis Elahi Offshore company: Olive Grove Assets Ltd Details: Elahi is a politician from a prominent Punjab dynasty.
(3) I have never regretted my time in the Moonies, but I’m relieved I found the courage to escape.
(4) Man on the Wire opens with cosmic chanting, like a prayer meeting between the Moonies and the MC5 on Mars.
(5) They were the Moonies, named after their Korean founder Sun Myung Moon , and they were operating from a farmhouse just outside Reading.
(6) After a spell in the Royal Marines, and a dalliance with the Moonies in Thailand, Gough spent nearly 20 years in his native Eastleigh, Hampshire.
(7) It's like being the one non-believer in a convention of Moonies.
(8) In Pakistan, Moonis Elahi, a politician from a prominent Punjab dynasty who was acquitted in a Pakistan court in 2011 of receiving payments in a corruption scandal, said he did not own offshore company Olive Grove Assets, listed to his name at the family residence in Lahore.
(9) A crucial test of a new religion is whether it transfers to the next generation after its founder's demise, and with the death of the Rev Sun Myung Moon, at 92 after suffering from pneumonia, the prospects for his Unification church – or "Moonies" – look poor.
(10) Still, it all felt like an enormous risk: I believed everything the Moonies told me, particularly the threat in the movement’s teachings that if you left, you exposed yourself to losing control of your life.
(11) Lords and their lobbyists • Lord Moonie sponsored a pass for Robin Ashby, the director general of the UK Defence Forum, who was once stripped of his parliamentary pass after press interest.
(12) But the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church – whose followers became known as "Moonies" – managed to shed the mantle of suspicion and ridicule to become a friend of political and religious leaders before his death in South Korea on Sunday, aged 92.
(13) Robin Ashby, a defence lobbyist who was stripped of his parliamentary pass for lobbying, has been given a pass by the former Labour minister, Lord Moonie.
(14) A 2012 investigation into Jang’s activities by Christianity Today claimed that documentary evidence indicated he was once “involved in” the Unification Church of the Rev Sun Myung Moon – whose followers became known as “Moonies” in the 1970s and 80s – and taught at one of its schools.
(15) In the increasing political row which erupted that year about the administration's support for the contras in Nicaragua, Kirkpatrick agreed to head a campaign organised by the Unification Church (the Moonies) to raise money for the anti-Sandinista rebels.
(16) Much of my time was spent travelling between Moonie centres along the east coast, preaching on the street corners of nearby towns and helping to establish new communities.
(17) She described how a female Trump supporter turned around, pulled down her trousers and “did a fully on moony”.
(18) The Moonies, the Manson Family, Jonestown, and the Scientologists?