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cheney

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for cheney.

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For every Dick Cheney there are probably a thousand parents who will ostracize or disown their gay children.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cheney gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

noun

A placename.

noun

A number of places in the United States:

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cheney.

noun

A surname.

noun

A placename.

noun

A number of places in the United States:

noun

A city in Sedgwick County, Kansas.

Example sentences

1

For every Dick Cheney there are probably a thousand parents who will ostracize or disown their gay children.

2

My personal favorites are Cheney on the MTA and the paper about a lisp architecture based entirely on destructive operations.

3

Dick Cheney blasted a colleague right in the face and the guy was able to apologize for getting shot the next day.

4

Check out practically any Dick Cheney interview to see that tactic used ad nauseum.

5

I'm not sure if the left means to praise Dick Cheney for changing his mind on homosexuality, or mock him for changing his mind because he's a right winger.

6

Very often these people will call for Bush, Cheney et al.

7

I'm not from the JVM world, but indeed a generational collector can be a huge boon, particularly if they use a Cheney style collector for the nursery.

8

I'm hoping that the White Nerds may be able to bring peace through the likes of Zuckerberg connecting everyone rather then Bush / Cheney and similar's savage wars.

9

I have a hard time believing that the cost of a TLS lookup and a couple of writes per freed object is more expensive than a Cheney scan for objects in the nursery.

10

The Dick Cheney example is one of pure politics, which is a prime example of where the discriminatory views from the right become equally disgusting to people on the right when they're the victims of said discrimination.

Quote examples

1

Cheney will soon announce from Camp David that the United States will have to work the “dark side.”...

2

Ah, but try wearing a "Bush/Cheney 04" t-shirt and see what kind of reaction you get.

3

Dick Cheney turns to a minion and says "I want to fuck up dombili's life.

4

I guess you're Dick Cheney then, since you call them "our" secrets.

Proper noun examples

1

I worked for General Dynamics on the A-12 Avenger II program[1] that was cancelled by Dick Cheney.

2

This reminds me of Dick Cheney's stance on homosexuality.

3

Most of the evil in the world is not due to top of the pyramid arch villains like the CEOs of the banks that screwed us all, Dick Cheney, the head of the NSA, or even Hitler.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use cheney in a sentence?

For every Dick Cheney there are probably a thousand parents who will ostracize or disown their gay children.

What does cheney mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is cheney?

cheney is commonly used as noun.