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Meanings of besotted in English
Synonyms
Examples for "wet"
Examples for "wet"
1
In the wet season serpents are common in the neighbourhood of Pará.
2
Nancy ran for the maid; for tablets of aspirin; for wet handkerchiefs.
3
It was misting; the streets gleamed wet and wan beneath the lamps.
4
The water flows here only in the wet part of the year.
5
Towards morning it rained; the whole of the following day was wet.
1
Hayward said that in the longer term, oil market fundamentals remained tight.
2
Security for the senator will be tight in view of recent violence.
3
If you're experiencing similar problems, hold tight the functionality is coming soon.
4
However, political polarization in the country would make it tight, he said.
5
Access to the region remains tight, with no foreign journalists allowed in.
1
May 20:-Requiresspoon-feeding; sleeps well; remains always in bed in stiff attitudes.
2
But the process was marked by stiff political and trade union opposition.
3
My body is stiff after a long day working on the house.
4
Extending that to banks, however, is likely to stir up stiff opposition.
5
Despite the stiff penalties, illegal gambling has grown exponentially in recent years.
1
A Chinook can carry 28 combat-loaded troops, a U.S. military official said.
2
Our American society is loaded with a false sense of cultural competence.
3
The great wagons are being loaded again with tents, weapons, food, gear.
4
The Withings is loaded with great features, and has undeniably great software.
5
THAILAND: Transport plane loaded with food and medicine was sent to Yangon.
1
In one second, the girl's heart smashed to a million billion pieces.
2
It was carried quite some way, they say, and smashed to sticks.
3
There may be magnificence in the smashing; but the thing is smashed.
4
Ilkay Gundogan smashed home the penalty to put City firmly in charge.
5
Gates were smashed and rioters set 15 factories on fire, he said.
1
The weather was hot enough, however, to wish you were getting soaked.
2
A sign of respite for water-soaked central and lower North Island residents.
3
He tried to induce the pigeons to take peas soaked in alcohol.
4
And it didn't stop until the good vibes had completely soaked in.
5
For seventeen hours the world has been soaked in the poisonous ether.
1
And right now, pretty much everybody on the inside is really super-pissed.
2
Had he briefly been undead, or was he simply one pissed-off chimp?
3
We weren't thinking, okay? Mike told the two pissed-off ladies before him.
4
What's pissing off the pissed-off girl? He looked almost happy, prattling on.
5
He had to hold the other guy up, he was so pissed.'
1
His name and image are plastered on a variety of different products.
2
Now plastered all over Manticore's news media for untold millions to watch.
3
Protesters plastered city squares with posters depicting the detainees as political prisoners.
4
The house is sparsely furnished and the floor is not yet plastered.
5
People visible inside the store, indistinct images behind damp-streaked and sign-plastered glass.
1
Within minutes the place was a smoke-filled den of tipsy Sherlock Holmses.
2
The shoemaker in tipsy silence was the only one who followed him.
3
They paid her tipsy compliments; they leered at her over the dinner-table.
4
It was late at night in the UK, and she was tipsy.
5
She recognised her as one of the children with the tipsy father.
1
The planks bent and gave, and sea water sloshed in the hold.
2
You're a doll, she said as she sloshed off toward her target.
3
Mathias flumped onto a banquette and sloshed liquor on his expensive robe.
4
She tipped the glass and some of it sloshed over the rim.
5
A curl of seawater sloshed over the concrete and doused my shoes.
1
You'll know the secrets of my potty training by this time tomorrow.
2
Going potty is one of the most natural things in the world.
3
Everybody in it is potty, but I'm beginning to understand about it.
4
And father and mother and Charles and Aunt Auriol are all potty.
5
His characters - wayward and potty - peter out with no explanation.
1
Water slopped over the edge of the bath and onto the linoleum.
2
Bene. She nodded violently as the man slopped water on the window.
3
The old man gave a start, and slopped some of the coffee.
4
He put out a hand to turn the knob and slopped himself.
5
A bird-duffer and a half-slopped chirurgeon also met seemingly unrelated accidental ends.
1
She went into the bathroom and soused her head in cold water.
2
Then, in a moment, up flew his heels and over he soused.
3
They returned with what speed they could, and thoroughly soused their bonfire.
4
A soused rainbow trout starter was ornamented with beetroot and black lime.
5
You get soused like this every night, or is this a special occasion?
1
Skylan stared at her in alcohol-fuddled bewilderment, unable to comprehend her words.
2
His fuddled brain was not equal to grappling with such a catastrophe.
3
The wine was mixed too strong, so there were many fuddled heads.
4
For the mist had one strange property: it fuddled one's sense of direction.
5
The mind becomes completely fuddled with the heterogeneous patchwork of entirely useless information.
1
His ex-wife espoused a cockeyed fiscal philosophy that made very expensive sense.
2
His cockeyed version of the Story of our Country for one thing.
3
In the end he left the post standing cockeyed in the stream.
4
We'll put it this way, to start: Something cockeyed is going on.
5
Graphic: China's GDP: slower and more slippery Real growth rates are similarly cockeyed.
1
His grandfather was crocked, his father too, and he's as bad.
2
Mulholland's crocked himself, and won't be able to turn out for the concert.
3
I prefer a crocked Messi to anyone else fully fit.
4
Fowke had dragged through the campaign with a crocked knee.
5
Then he crocked up, nerves and that sort of thing.
1
This priceless if rather pixilated footage is from height of mambo mania.
2
The pixilated blur of Alban jumping made a bright line behind her eyelids.
3
Meanwhile, mildly pixilated characters gaze absently at them and sometimes make enigmatic remarks.
4
A page of links on Satan and Satan-related topics sprang to pixilated life.
5
Ethan's face appeared on her screen, slightly pixilated but still familiar, still handsome.
1
Maybe she had a pretty good idea her roommate would come home tiddly.
2
Two hundred and fifty years of oom-pah-tiddly-oom-pah biting the dust.
3
The giveaway was their raised voices; they sounded tiddly.
4
Now, now, I'm not blaming you-notthe least tiddly-wink
5
I rejoice to say that this is a sequestered spot into which Hi tiddly hi ti, etc.
1
I take a big swig of beer, wishing I could just go blotto.
2
No more bartending-thetemptation to drink would've kept me blotto-nomore pogoing to punk bands.
3
What do you want to get blotto for?
4
She wasn't exactly blotto, but she had evidently laid a good foundation for a first-class jag.
5
The party broke up, and Ina and I stayed behind to finish the wine and get blotto.
1
The man sitting next to Ford was a bit sozzled by now.
2
The government claims concern, but has it colluded with the drinks industry to get us sozzled?
3
The whores were called Nell and Marie Jeanette; they were lightly sozzled on gin and pig's blood.
4
That journalist fellow of William's-he'ssozzled.
5
Not twenty feet away, a gin-sozzled old woman slaps her elfin pigeon-chested husband hard against his sparse-haired skull.
1
To tell you the truth, I'm just a bit squiffy.
2
I leave feeling squiffy, but also having learned something.
3
I didn't take particular notice of what he said, because he was a bit squiffy.
4
We could relax and get squiffy together.
5
I remember the last time I was squiffy I sang all the way home that old nursery hymn:
1
All I know is that she didn't look pie-eyed to me when she left.
2
We both got pie-eyed; I was all liquored up, and I guess she was, too.
3
Indeed, this joyous musical brinkmanship seems most evident on those occasions when the musicians sound wholly pie-eyed.
4
Unless pie-eyed, you cannot hope to grip.
5
Most of the crowd was pie-eyed by this time, anyhow, and would fight at the drop of a hat.
1
You won't have a tiddley?
2
Tom much enjoyed playing Tiddley Winks, and I think would have gone on happily till midnight.
1
Hang me if I wasn't blind drunk at the end of it.
2
She was so blind drunk that she was taken to the hospital.
3
When the British drink they get blind drunk and violent, he says.
4
Everybody was blind drunk-butthey all got over it except HIM.
5
I'd like to see David Beckham play football that brilliant when blind drunk.
Usage of besotted in English
1
General Moore had made a vain attempt to rouse the besotted men.
2
She wormed out of the besotted wretch the secrets of our Order.
3
She's doing too good a besotted-fangirl impression not to be playing him.
4
However, it seems like these two are beyond besotted with each other.
5
At the bottom of the Abyss they are feeble, besotted, and imbecile.
6
They were greedy, and, in their besotted avarice, they killed the goose.
7
The heavy, besotted look was gone, the dull eyes were lighted up.
8
The King was besotted, and no impression could be made upon him.
9
Eventually Marilyn departs, leaving a bewitched and besotted Colin in her wake.
10
I have planned everything,- Ihavesettled everything already with their besotted master.
11
The old man was already besotted; now, he was bordering on obsession.
12
Are you a fool, or have you grown besotted in your age?
13
He was besotted with her, but she did not care for him.'
14
How infinite is her trust, and what a besotted ingrate I am!
15
I could well understand why so many young men became besotted with her.
16
Once upon a time, I was completely and utterly besotted with American politics.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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