He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once.
Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. The maintenance of national security in general and the conduct of intelligence work, in particular, is not the Cold War era, cloak -and-dagger myth which is continuously advanced by the popular media. President Trump is trying cloak fair housing under this guise of keeping the suburbs safe from' those low income people', it's almost as if President Trump's assuming that all black people live in low-income house or that low-income housing is just for black people.
It is a very cynical thing to say, but I believe that this whole attack is essentially just an environmental cloak that is being put over what is really a deep political agenda, what I've never experienced in the past is where there has been very deliberate misinformation about this project that is being published in an effort to get very rapidly a very emotive social media response.
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Term » Definition. Word in Definition. Princeton's WordNet 2. Wiktionary 0. Night hid her movements with its cloak of darkness.
Webster Dictionary 0. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women Etymology: [Of. Freebase 0. Chambers 20th Century Dictionary 0. Matched Categories Cover Covering. How to pronounce Cloak? Alex US English. David US English. Outsets and onsets! They left the house under cloak of darkness. Secrecy and privacy. The river is often cloaked in mist in the early morning. Hiding and disguising. The agents operate under a cloak of secrecy.
The deal was cloaked in secrecy. Examples of cloak. Audiences, after all, paid to watch kings and princes perform on the stage and to watch boys don the personae and - literally - the cloaks of majesty. From the Cambridge English Corpus. More signicant was what the gift of cloaks symbolized: the restitution of respect and honor to the father-in-law lost by the son-in-law's immodest behavior and his deance of elders.
Nobles wore elaborately adorned cloaks made of maguey as well as cotton, and decoration was as impor tant as the type of cloth in terms of social distinctions. The discourse on literacy thus both ruptures the pre-war gender system at the same time that it cloaks these ruptures in the service of restoring the gender statusquo.
The production of a novel or any textual object is a complex process, and its very complexity is often cloaked by ideals about the solitary, unitary author. They simply merged back into what was often a chaotic social cauldron in which anonymity cloaked, to the point of invisibility, those who lived a transient existence. Everything was cloaked by the dense fog. Our fears have allowed the doctors to act with imperious authority, cloaking their lack of knowledge in our greater ignorance.
From the Hansard archive. Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3. Does he not accept that a redundancy is a redundancy however it may be cloaked and garbed by his statement? English Language Learners Definition of cloak Entry 2 of 2.
See the full definition for cloak in the English Language Learners Dictionary. Nglish: Translation of cloak for Spanish Speakers. Britannica English: Translation of cloak for Arabic Speakers. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!
Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of cloak Entry 1 of 2. Definition of cloak Entry 2 of 2. Choose the Right Synonym for cloak Verb disguise , cloak , mask mean to alter the dress or appearance of so as to conceal the identity or true nature. Examples of cloak in a Sentence Noun Their plans were shrouded in a cloak of secrecy. Recent Examples on the Web: Noun In addition to that cloak -and-dagger incident, the rapper made a rare appearance in court last month to testify in the lawsuit.
First Known Use of cloak Noun 13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Verb , in the meaning defined above.
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