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accosted

/uh-kaw-stid, uh-kos-tid/US // əˈkɔ stɪd, əˈkɒs tɪd //

遭到讪笑,搭讪,讪笑,讪笑着

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Heraldry.

    • : represented as side by side: two dolphins accosted.

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Examples

  • Days later, supermodel Kate Moss accosted Bieber at another party in Ibiza, giving him a dressing down over his behavior.

  • Several characters accosted us with intentions even former White House junior hosts could recognize as suspect.

  • However, according to the police, Hembling was arguing with two or three people, not being accosted by a “mob” of any size.

  • The young lawyer was returning to her townhouse near Regents Park with her boyfriend when she was accosted soon after dark.

  • The doctors were accosted by local settlers, and the Arab doctors and their families were subjected to racial harassment.

  • It was not the first time by several he had thus accosted her; and to give her her due, she was always civil to him.

  • It was the man with the bluish cheek scar who had accosted him after the triple-killing in that office building.

  • It sometimes happened during our journey that I was accosted by some one or other when unobserved, in places where we stopped.

  • We accosted the friend, feeling instinctively that she was framed of softer stuff, and asked her if the path were a private one.

  • No sooner were we inside the railings than Mr. Kipling was accosted by a military policeman.