featherbed

How To Use featherbed In A Sentence

• Nor that so many New Labour ministers moved effortlessly from government to work for the same companies their own privatisation efforts had so lavishly featherbedded. The corporate grip on public life is a threat to democracy
• That would set a fire of public opinion against the BBC being featherbedded - a big amplification of the Jonathan Ross-type complaints about wasting OUR money. OPEN THREAD
• His body had been hard as a rock and yet as comforting as a featherbed. A Different Light
• Political corruption and featherbedding in Harrisburg is your classic dog-bites-man story, and frankly it’s too bad more of the General Assembly hasn’t been sent to jail for “business asusual.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett Subpoenas Identity of His Critics, for a Criminal Probe
• His world was the big old square wicker perambulator, the dark walls of which hemmed him in on three sides, the fourth consisting of his featherbed, beneath which, throughout the summer, he lay unresistant. Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
• Political correctness is vast featherbedding trades union of pygmies, runts, and dullards, devoted to timeserving until their pension kicks in. Archive 2007-09-01
• I never knew before what an uninteresting thing a featherbed is – when you are obliged to hold it in your arms. Melbourne House
• Unlike the BBC it is not state-sponsored and receives no licence fee; it is not bound to objectivity by a Charter that in return for a pledge of objectivity gives it its increasingly anomalistic and untenably privileged position (in this era of multi-channel broadcasting) of being featherbedded by what is in effect a poll tax on every household in Britain with a television set. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• He was now going to a home provided by benevolent persons as a kind of featherbed to catch the falling workhouse boy. Essays in Rebellion
• As time went by, he became increasingly irritated by the rampant featherbedding he discovered.