Vocabulary Word
Word: bloated
Definition: (unpleasantly) swollen or puffed as with water or air
Definition: (unpleasantly) swollen or puffed as with water or air
Sentences Containing 'bloated'
The polite rejection of the three lumps of bread and cheese had quite bloated Mr. Stryver with indignation, which he afterwards turned to account in the training of the young gentlemen, by directing them to beware of the pride of Beggars, like that tutor fellow.
A man with a bloated face opened the strong wicket, to whom Defarge presented``The Emigrant Evremonde.''
His bloated gaoler, who wore spectacles to read with, glanced over them to assure himself that he had taken his place, and went through the list, making a similar short pause at each name.
Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hill, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?
I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate-de-foie-gras.
The Nāga Generator creates a monstrous nine-headed Nāga which becomes so bloated with Galactic Empire's negative Karma its becomes a planet sized Octopus type Nāga.
He criticized the book's structure, writing that "the tale meanders hither and yon, in its bloated 'multilayered' fashion".
The site's consensus is that "While it might prove somewhat satisfying for devout sci-fi fans, "Pandorum"'s bloated, derivative plot ultimately leaves it drifting in space.".
Suspected causes of this are a decrease in ore grade as the mine's richer deposits were worked out, loss of skilled foreign management and engineering staff, a bloated labor force resulting from government employment efforts, and inadequate capital investment in the mine's equipment.
Netanyahu said Peres had told him the European and U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority had established a "bloated bureaucracy, with PA employees looking to the international community to meet their payroll".
Folbre views corporations as profit-obsessed and corrupt tyrants and often sees governments as bloated bureaucratic regimes that serve few and punish the poor.
In his review for "The Guardian", Tim Jonze said the song "aims for a 'Hey Jude' style singalong but – owing to its determination to have someone playing kitchen sink in the background – ends up as bloated as Oasis' 'All Around the World'." Dan Aquilante of "The New York Post" wrote a less-than-favorable review of "Born This Way" but complimented "You and I" and the "uniquely earthy quality" that Lange brought to the album.
In contrast Nigel Andrews found the characters to be clichéd archetypes of the criminal underworld, such as the "homosexual chauffeur, bloated tycoon, glamorous mistress", describing the film as "perfunctory".
In the opinion of About.com's Chad Bowar, "At War with Satan" is at the same time "highly ambitious" and "bloated", but the song was "so over-the-top and so dramatic that it somehow worked" and made the album "an overlooked metal gem".
"Time" criticized its "brutal, bloated car-chase sequence pilfered from Friedkin's nifty "The French Connection"", and called it "a fetid movie hybrid: Miami Vile".
Hundreds of bodies were floating in the waters and bodies bloated beyond recognition were consigned to mass pyres.
Niki de Saint-Phalle created bloated and vibrant plastic figures.
Calliphora nigribasis was found at the fresh stage and Compsomylops verena was usually found at the bloated stage.
The bloated staffing, number of offices and poor deals meant that money was being haemorrhaged and as the world woke up to the reality that the web was not a licence to print money, the cash fast ran out.
Eating became extremely difficult as unburied corpses became bloated and putrid.
Darren Franich of "Entertainment Weekly" pointed out a flaw in Dale's reasoning that the group needed to remove the zombie from the well without contaminating the water: "I'm not sure how a couple months of bloated pustular ichor-seeping zombie flesh wouldn't have contaminated the water, but I suppose you can just boil that out."