Cambridge Dictionary

2021-03-05 17:00:05 Dastard, noun.

/ˈdastəd/

Definition (dated, humorous): A dishonourable or despicable man.

Examples:

1. The German player also seeks to reinsure the treaty by tying in the Swedish matter because he cannot rely on Russian compliance simply because the deal is good for both countries; that is, he must protect against fools as well as dastards.
2. You're one of those estate agent dastards - bumping up house prices beyond the reach of young working couples.
3. Victor Fisher, on hand outside the hall, charged the dissenting delegates with being ‘dastards and cowards, some of whom… were the paid agents of the enemy, and.., traitors not only to their country but to civilisation.’
4. Then, her mind was filled with an intense hate, a hate for the dastards that abducted her crewmates.
5. I had found the body underneath the floorboards, but I had yet to find the dastard that placed it there.
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2021-03-05 10:00:00 Adhere, verb.

/ədˈhɪə/

Definition (adhere to • no object): Closely follow, observe, or represent.

Examples:

1. The account adhered firmly to fact.
2. In numerous poetry collections, books of essays and fiction that followed, he closely adhered to this view of an unfettered aesthetic - not yoked to any ideology or dogma.
3. The association also holds cat shows and judges them based on how closely they adhere to the standards.
4. The play strikes me as an attempt to recreate a winning formula, adhering rather too closely to the mould of its last show, Hatched.
5. The script adheres pretty closely to the basic plot of the 1949 book, which imagined a totalitarian state where even the thoughts of its subjects are controlled by an all-seeing Big Brother.
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2021-03-04 21:00:00 Take a back seat, phrase.

Definition: Take or be given a less important position or role.

Examples:

1. In future he would take a back seat in politics.
2. Yet the majority of the book emphasizes dinosaur osteology, systematics, and the fossil record; paleobiology takes a back seat to this important foundation.
3. But she piled on the pounds after the birth of her son, George, nine months ago and singing took a back seat as her confidence dwindled.
4. The role of the citizen is taking a back seat to decisions being made about our communities and the environment.
5. Was love more important than wealth or did romance take a back seat to social climbing?
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2021-03-04 17:00:10 Wettie, noun.

/ˈweti/

Definition (Australian, New Zealand • informal): A wetsuit.

Examples:

1. She straddles her board, facing out to sea, the water filling her wettie and growing warm against her body.
2. If you are a man, wear shorts over the wettie.
3. He says he needs this diet to prevent freezing in his wettie.
4. Pete sighed and retrieved his wettie out of the back and I stared out at the weather.
5. I didn't even have a wettie, due to my lack of faith in the wind.
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