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Meanings of tight in English
(Used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity.
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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
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
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.
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 tight in English
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.
6
He needed the van tight behind him for his idea to work.
7
Yes, supply is tight, thanks to war and political instability and under-investment.
8
The report comes amid an oil market that is already relatively tight.
9
Sabine gripped the large paper in her right hand, balling it tight.
10
Even the South African tight five have been given instructions to attack.
11
One thing's for sure: Washington is still tight-lipped on the baby issue.
12
However, in typically tight-lipped fashion, Apple has yet to confirm its plans.
13
For good? The question produced an odd, tight sensation in his windpipe.
14
The overall result is targeted stepwise tight glycemic regulation using insulin boluses.
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Aoki's hand on his thigh, almost painful; his jeans far too tight.
16
Mr Brownlee also remained tight-lipped about legal protection of troops in Iraq.
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