How To Use betise In A Sentence
- He will commit in one meal every betise that a senllion fresh from the plow-tail is capable of, and he will continue to repeat those faults. American Notes
- (Nanfang Daily) Yet another piece of bêtise: A plastic goods factory took advantage of the summer vacation to hire youth workers, including many of whom are under 16 years old.
- One small corner of the shelving housed dozens of CD-ROMs, floppies and manuals, but the rest of the space was taken up with literally hundreds of alphabetised A4 manila folders, coloured name tags on all of the top right-hand corners. It's October, 1956.
- I can bite till my fingers bleed when I get like that but very luckily just then I had a flash of genius I realized I never had alphabetised the freezer had I? Incendiary
- After a couple of hours of mindless surfing, I've found a few more most excellent weblogs to add to my soon to be alphabetised side bar!
- Our nameplates arrived for the communal office door today, alphabetised by the handyman who put them up, which thus avoided the catfight my new officemates and I had promised each other over who would get the top position.
- As it is I'm a little ashamed that I sat down and created my own categorised, alphabetised index for it, confirming that I am now a real dorky librarian. Pistachio, yoghurt & cardamom cake, with lime syrup
- It took me 45 minutes to alphabetise my references this morning.
- Individual entries are now barely worth documenting, and the phenomenon is best appreciated in bulk through websites such as the Daily Mail Oncological Ontology Project and Kill Or Cure, with its alphabetised list: from almonds, apples and artificial light; through horseradish, hot drinks and housework; to wasabi, water, watercress and more. The Daily Mail cancer story that torpedoes itself in paragraph 19
- You give it up! — for what? — for a betise, for an absurd scruple. The History of Pendennis
