Tourist officials stress that this summer's campaign is merely an effort to do "even better." Tourism still accounts for 6.5% of French GDP, and Paris, trading on its past glories, will remain a top holiday destination. Most visitors have long included snooty service in the real price of seeing the Louvre. If French officials want to inject new dynamism into the service economy, they will need more than a glorified phrasebook.
Strands of dark green snot dripped or hung from their nostrils—strands so long that they drizzled from their chins down to their pectoral muscles and oozed lazily across their bellies, blending into their red paint and sweat."The description emphasizes his point: Village life is dirtier and more unpleasant than civilized life—get real! Later he explains that the mucus, the byproduct of a snorted drug, is next to impossible to wipe off in a land without handkerchiefs or tissue paper. Nonetheless, this is not the kind of language that will soothe the troubled indigenous-rights activist.
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Experts skeptical as Obama creeps toward his nuclear-free utopia Ads Posted on Facebook Strike Some as Off-Key
By BRAD STONE
Advertisers on Facebook are a motley bunch. Some are Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble. Others are “not only creepy but off-putting,” says a media consultant.
One real gem is named "Oshaka-san no Hanakuso" (The Buddha's dried snot). It is made by air-drying leftover boiled rice, which is pan-fried until crisp and brown and then tossed in sugar and soy sauce. This is a cheap but delicious snack that goes perfectly with green tea.
I talked to a Wal-Mart mom, Betty Necas, 39, wearing sweatpants and tattoos on her wrists.
She said she’s never voted, and was a teenage mom “like Bristol.” She likes Sarah because she’s “down home” but said Obama “gives me the creeps. Nothing to do with the fact that he’s black. He just seems snotty, and he looks weaselly.”
mot·ley (mŏt'lē)
adj.
- Having elements of great variety or incongruity; heterogeneous: "Most Ivy League freshman classes are chosen from a motley collection of constituencies . . . and a bare majority of entering students can honestly be called scholars" (New York Times).
- Having many colors; variegated; parti-colored: a motley tunic.
- The parti-colored attire of a court jester.
- A heterogeneous, often incongruous mixture of elements.
[Middle English motlei, variegated cloth, variegated, probably from Anglo-Norman, probably from Middle English mot, speck. See mote1.]
bunchn.
- A group of things growing close together; a cluster or clump: a bunch of grapes; grass growing in bunches.
- A group of like items or individuals gathered or placed together: a bunch of keys on a ring; people standing around in bunches.
- Informal. A group of people usually having a common interest or association: My brother and his bunch are basketball fanatics.
- Informal. A considerable number or amount; a lot: a bunch of trouble; a whole bunch of food.
- A small lump or swelling; a bump.
- creeps Informal. A sensation of fear or repugnance, as if things were crawling on one's skin: That house gives me the creeps.
creep
intr.v., crept (krĕpt), creep·ing, creeps.
- To move with the body close to the ground, as on hands and knees.
- To move stealthily or cautiously.
- To move or proceed very slowly: Traffic creeps at that hour.
- Botany.
- To grow or spread along a surface, rooting at intervals or clinging by means of suckers or tendrils.
- To grow horizontally under the ground, as the rhizomes of many plants.
- To slip out of place; shift gradually.
- To have a tingling sensation, made by or as if by things moving stealthily: a moan that made my flesh creep.
- The act of creeping; a creeping motion or progress.
- Slang. An annoyingly unpleasant or repulsive person.
- A slow flow of metal when under high temperature or great pressure.
- A slow change in a characteristic of electronic equipment, such as a decrease in power with continued usage.
- Geology. The slow movement of rock debris and soil down a weathered slope.
- creeps Informal. A sensation of fear or repugnance, as if things were crawling on one's skin: That house gives me the creeps.
[Middle English crepen, from Old English crēopan.]
Verb[edit]
- To make uncomfortable or afraid; to give someone the creeps.
- That janitor who's always talking about blood creeps me out.
creepy
(krē'pē)adj. Informal., -i·er, -i·est.
- Of or producing a sensation of uneasiness or fear, as of things crawling on one's skin: a creepy feeling; a creepy story.
- Annoyingly unpleasant; repulsive: the creepy kids next door.
(ôf'kē', ŏf'-)
adj.
- Music. Pitched higher or lower than the correct notes of a melody.
- Being out of accord with what is considered normal or appropriate: a high-flown, off-key speech by a newcomer.
noun [U] INFORMAL
mucus produced in the nose
snotty adjective INFORMAL
covered with mucus from the nose:
You could have told me I had a snotty nose!
I don't want to use your snotty handkerchief!
snot
━━ n. 〔卑〕 鼻汁; いやなやつ.
snot・ty ━━ a. 〔俗〕 鼻水を垂らした; 〔俗〕 いやな.
snotty-nosed a. いやな.
snot・ty ━━ a. 〔俗〕 鼻水を垂らした; 〔俗〕 いやな.snotty-nosed a. いやな.
WordNet: snotty
Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words. The adjective has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant
Synonyms: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish
Meaning #2: dirty with nasal discharge
Synonym: snot-nosed
snooty
Pronunciation: /ˈsnuːti/
Translate snooty | into German | into Italian adjective (snootier, snootiest)
informal
showing disapproval or contempt towards others, especially those considered to belong to a lower social class:snooty neighbours
weaselly
IN BRIEF: Resembling a small mammal; In a manner that is deceptive or evasive.
pectoral
- pec • to • ral
- 発音
- péktərəl
- pectoralの変化形
- pectorals (複数形)
[形]
1 胸（部）の
3 胸部疾患の；肺病の.
pectoral muscles
胸筋.
胸筋.
- Get real！
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