hackneyed the hackneyed environs of
Hogwarts (Guardian blog)
half-baked His answers were evasive,
mantra-like platitudes and half-baked, baseless statements meant to
resonate in the empty chambers of the minds of anyone who found him credible.
Bonnie Greer on Nick Griffin, Oct 24 09, Times
half-baked modernist sculptural mannerisms
nicked from already half-baked Moores and Hepworths (Guardian, 21 February 2009)
half-digested
gestural gimmicks Allen Watsky on Jewish music
hamfisted Gurn, a stolid Scotsman, has been
spying on the amazing infatuation developing between James (betrothed to Effie)
and a beautiful sylph, and is trying to spread the news with ham-fisted urgency."
The Guardian
hand-wringing (liberal)
hanging
baskety "the flagstone and decking, hanging baskety, towpathy canal
sort of fashion so loved by town planners." Maureen Lipman Guardian
September 16, 2005
harrumphingHarrumphing boffins with
comedy hair ... it's all terribly Theatre in Education. Sarah Dempster,
Guardian July 16, 2007
hideous Hideous Buildings Planned for Sheffield
high
altitude (theorising, discussions)
high gibberish quotient Jeremy
Treglown
high-minded
interpretive tinkering on the part of jazz and classical musicians
hollowed out religious
narratives translated into pseudo science The Atheist Delusion John Gray
Guardian Mar 15 08
horribly
dressed in identical outfits Elizabeth and Margaret as children Guardian July
21 07 Horribly dressed and mannered people who dared to discuss "social
issues" and politics. Web
horrid
(absolutely horrid) The
mullet, that horrid hairdo that won't die. Web
horrorific Arrgghh... the tiger looks so
alive!! Indeed these people had a strange, morbid, disturbing, horrorific
taste... (Web comment on pix of animals stuffed and turned into furniture)
hovery Waiters at Gauthier Soho “a little hovery” Guardian Sept 10
humiliating: Watching sign-language interpreters translating & pantomiming humiliating teenage poetry live is hilariously awesome. @jesserobbins
hushed, Dimbledonian
reverence Peter Wilby, Guardian Sept. 24 07
