[
UK
/blˈaɪtɐ/
]
NOUN
- a persistently annoying person
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a boy or man
there's a fellow at the door
he's a likable cuss
that chap is your host
he's a good bloke
How To Use blighter In A Sentence
- There is only so long you can ignore that kind of behaviour, even knowing that the little blighter has a bowl filled to the brim with tasty kitty treats in the kitchen.
- So, it was with some trepidation that I offered to expose myself to a department of the snotty-nosed blighters little darlings, even with pay.
- It's good practice in the country to be generous with bird food once Winter bites; do it too early, though and the little blighters will forsake their job of keeping the bugs down.
- Here's what she should do: every time one of the little blighters starts acting up, simply threaten to show them one of Guy Ritchie's movies.
- The blighter stole my purse!
- Not much cop considering that the game requires a hefty one hundred of the little blighters to be meandering about at once!
- We're beggars and blighters and ne'er-do-well cads.
- Three of the blighters appeared in the past week, and the similarity of the respective plots was striking.
- Poor blighters, it'll be over before they know it.
- The dawn chorus starts shortly before 4 a.m. now, and I find it impossible to sleep on once the noisy little blighters have roused me.
