(n.) One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.
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Raiser
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb).
Example Sentences:
(1) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(2) This modernist structure is just a curtain-raiser for what is to come.
(3) These are three questions an educational change agent should ask before choosing a role as specialist, problem solver, consciousness raiser or advocate.
(4) But the curtain raiser to the games retained the bragging rights in terms of peak audience – the most people tuned in at any one time – with a five-minute high of 26.9 million against the closing event's 26.3 million at 9.35pm.
(5) He will know that that is because it is also the first time a chancellor has had to drop the biggest revenue-raiser in his budget within two days of announcing it.
(6) There had, though, been an earlier eyebrow-raiser when the official word went out before kick-off that Yaya Touré had been “rested” for this one.
(7) I like home comforts, but then I want to be this hell-raiser – but I want my porridge in the morning.
(8) Four change agent roles--specialist, problem solver, consciousness raiser, and advocate--are identified and described.
(9) Sure, the American president seemed a tad unsure how to say the name of his guest – whom he greeted as Ter-raiser – slightly reinforcing the White House’s earlier failure, in a briefing note, to spell the British prime minister’s name correctly , dropping the “h” and thereby suggesting Donald Trump was about to receive Teresa May, who made her name as a porn star.
(10) We send the January King seeds to a plant raiser who sows them in April and grows them to a small plant.
(11) Once awareness raisers are in place within the community, more people will approach their GP for assessment.
(12) The last decade of predominantly La Niña conditions has offered a bleak curtain raiser for things to come.
(13) The halo is the right direction and we need it.” While Nico Rosberg beat Lewis Hamilton to win the curtain raiser in Melbourne, Alonso’s incredible crash, which the Spaniard unsurprisingly said was the biggest of his career, has dominated the post-race agenda.
(14) That is cutting off the skills pipeline we need for future success.” The new international comparisons study, carried out by Callum Lee and Lucy Minyo of BOP Consulting for the federation, is part of The C.Report, a survey of the CIF’s first year of work which is intended as a curtain-raiser to further studies of levels of foreign investment and sponsorship of the arts.
(15) It's only in the 1950s that literature portrays insanity as a consciousness raiser: From having negative connotations, it suddenly has positive ones.
(16) Between 19 and 27 September 1987, a cluster of outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness occurred among persons who had attended a museum fund-raiser in Wilmington, Delaware and an intercollegiate football game in Philadelphia.
(17) Labour claimed Hunt's apparent attempt to exclude scenes celebrating the work of NHS nurses from Danny Boyle's much-praised Olympic curtain-raiser showed he did not support its core values.
(18) He was responsible for the establishment of the University of Virginia, in which his versatility was manifested as architect, builder, and fund raiser.
(19) Two red cards in the DC game and a host of eyebrow-raisers from the ref prompted DC boss Ben Olsen to complain afterwards : The referees were lousy.
(20) It also is necessary to ensure that all people involved with service provision are adequately selected, trained, and briefed and that the needs of the refugees take precedence over those of the fund raisers and politicians.