What's the difference between peaky and pesky?

Peaky


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a peak or peaks.
  • (a.) Sickly; peaked.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At atrioventricular transition level, the P wave was peaky or diphasic.
  • (2) Despite the promise of a layered saga involving communism, the IRA and betting syndicates, not a great deal happens in Peaky Blinders .
  • (3) Yeah, ha ha, the cheeky peaky blinders are leeching an extra grand and a half out of buyers just for accepting their offer on a property.
  • (4) Nothing too serious, maybe just a bit of a bad back or one of those newly invented illnesses which make you a bit peaky for decades – fibromyalgia, or ME … I think we should all pretend to be disabled for a month or so, claim benefits and hope this persuades the authorities to sort out the mess."
  • (5) Historical gangster epic Peaky Blinders was a double winner at the Bafta TV Craft Awards ceremony on Sunday night, where the BBC also took home awards for its Doctor Who specials commemorating the show's 50th anniversary and the special award for Strictly Come Dancing.
  • (6) In addition to Peaky Blinders' 1920s gangland epic, the BBC also has Quirke, an Andrew Davies adaptation of the John Banville novels.
  • (7) The players were more interested in keeping up to date with Peaky Blinders, Keane reckoned, but with reports of Hull City being interested in O’Neill, they really should be.
  • (8) Peaky Blinders Sam Neil either shoots Grace or himself.
  • (9) Peaky Blinders Its producers will be wary of any "British Boardwalk Empire" comparisons, since calling The Hour the "British Mad Men" weighted expectations unflatteringly.
  • (10) Peaky Blinders Steven Knight is a writer with an unusual knack for coming up with quirky ideas that go improbably big: he created Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
  • (11) Were there space I’d detail the show’s many other flaws – Andy Nyman’s Stella Street caricature of Winston Churchill, the phrase “we are family” uttered more times than at a Sister Sledge convention – but there isn’t, so let’s leave it at this: the show’s a right Peaky Blunder.
  • (12) In the past year BBC2 has produced excellent new British drama with series such as Peaky Blinders and The Fall (both re-commissioned for 2014).
  • (13) Peaky Blinders takes place in Birmingham, 1919, and Cillian Murphy stars as Tommy Shelby, leader of the eponymous gang, so-called because they carry blades in their caps.
  • (14) BLINDING LANRE BAKARE Being a Peaky Blinders fan isn’t easy.
  • (15) Knight again exceeded expectations in 2013 with Peaky Blinders, an idiosyncratic gangster drama set in Birmingham in 1919, which, through its title, introduced to common knowledge the legend of a gang who secreted razor blades in the peaks of their caps.
  • (16) The resulting activity densities along the small bowel were peaky and the overlap between the two labels in the border zone was minute, indicating that the intestinal contents were transported in isolated portions with only minor exchange of luminal contents between adjacent regions.
  • (17) The gang, known as the Peaky Blinders, were the inspiration behind the BBC2 drama of the same name.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest PEAKY GWILYM MUMFORD I’ll give Peaky Blinders this: it has style.
  • (19) Peaky Blinders, a hit with audiences when it aired last year, won an award for its director, Otto Bathurst, and photography and lighting craftsman George Steel.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fun, brutal, stylish … from left, Paul Anderson, Cillian Murphy and Finn Shelby in Peaky Blinders.

Pesky


Definition:

  • (a.) Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an intensive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Finally, there is that pesky matter of public debt, which is still 90% of eurozone GDP.
  • (2) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.
  • (3) If anyone in Macclesfield wants, for a small fee, I will come round to your house, lift the pesky varmint out of the bath with finger and thumb and fling it out of the window.
  • (4) I'd known I was a girl since I was four, if you'll excuse the cliche, but everyone told me I couldn't be, because of a pesky penis between my legs.
  • (5) Stokes sent a downward header towards the far corner from seven yards but the pesky keeper again meddled, diving full length to push it to safety.
  • (6) 7.55pm BST 8 min: Bayern are determined that they will prevail but pesky Dortmund just keep disrupting their attempts to build moves.
  • (7) The fate of the American car industry, that pesky stimulus package, impending financial and ecological doom.
  • (8) However, the same pesky proprietary screws are present, and it's never a joy to encounter fused (read: expensive to replace) displays.
  • (9) Hopefully users will be able to finally do away with pesky pins and iTunes passwords.
  • (10) They want to get round the pesky one-person-one-vote principle that democracies anachronistically cling to in the face of economic reality.
  • (11) And all because those pesky London house prices mean having room for a baby is a pipe dream.
  • (12) A lot of women have the idea that IUD, IUS and also injectables can affect future fertility in the long term, and there is really no evidence for that.” Mumbled misinformation aside, long-acting reversible contraception has a trump card, as one IUS-using friend put it: “Once it is installed in your body, you can’t not take it, so it gets rid of that pesky human error.” It’s a thought that has struck policy-makers, too.
  • (13) Once you start measuring a citizen’s worth and standing by their financial muscle, women will be disadvantaged, with their pesky career breaks and maternity leave entitlements.
  • (14) Unusual among grains, quinoa has a high protein content (between 14%-18%), and it contains all those pesky, yet essential, amino acids needed for good health that can prove so elusive to vegetarians who prefer not to pop food supplements.
  • (15) Yet the coalition's reflex response remains to defend the City against the pesky meddling of Brussels.
  • (16) There’s the constant traffic belching fumes that linger in the humid air; the uneven sidewalks that have a pesky habit of vanishing halfway along the street; the sheer distances to cover in this elongated, ever-expanding metropolis.
  • (17) Interviewed this morning about the interim report of Sir Howard Davies's Airports Commission , the London mayor sputtered with frustration at Britain's inability to get its act together and keep up with its international rivals: "You go to Hong Kong, they're flying every hour of the day and night," he said, forgetting to mention that in the Chinese territory decisions can be made without too much regard to the pesky demands of voters on the flightpath.
  • (18) He's still a pesky and dangerous playmaker, although his effectiveness of late has been sapped by a knee injury that the Spurs certainly will exploit.
  • (19) The old joke that the BBC would be an efficient, well oiled machine if it were not for the pesky programme makers, seemed to be taken seriously at the top.
  • (20) On interest rates, the Bank of England still has the pedal to the metal, and George Osborne has made sure the housing market is perky verging on pesky .

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