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Definition of eye-rolling in English: eye-rollingnoun ˈʌɪrəʊlɪŋ mass nounThe action of rolling one's eyes, typically as an expression of exasperation, disbelief, or disapproval. there's been plenty of eye-rolling and head-shaking over the pronouncements Example sentencesExamples - He welcomed eye-rolling from onlooking reporters.
- Their threats to get into Gleneagles and "turf them out" are more likely to provoke eye-rolling and sniggering than real fear.
- People who ask me how it's going are met with groans, eye-rolling, whining about the taffeta that resides where my brain once did.
- Other speakers spoke hopefully of a world organized into small confederations, eating food grown locally, a vision that understandably inspired eye-rolling from some of their fellow protesters.
- It's only a matter of time until post-punk or new wave invoke eye-rolling, but don't give up on the genre just yet.
- Otherwise, the movie is hindered by a few story inconsistencies and some instances of typical audience eye-rolling.
- "He's just a politician and he's fighting for his rights," he said reasonably, allowing himself only a little eloquently exasperated eye-rolling.
- Slip the maligned term 'street theatre' into any conversation and you are guaranteed comic eye-rolling and wincing memories of zany clowns on stilts and wacky jugglers.
- Even suggesting tentatively that she might like to empty the dishwasher can cause serious eye-rolling.
- There's been plenty of media eye-rolling about the California recall, but much of the coverage actually contributes to the wacky atmosphere it vaguely decries.
- You can imagine the eye-rolling I got.
- No amount of eye-rolling was going to convince my captors that I really didn't need to participate.
- Permission for eye-rolling granted.
- There would be lots of eye-rolling, heavy sighs and throat clearing, but rarely any argument.
- If eye-rolling made a noise, you wouldn't have been able to hear yourself think.
- At least we now know those dark sunglasses function largely to shield the public from frequent bouts of eye-rolling.
- Watching the faces of the diggers in the background, I caught a lot of grinning and eye-rolling.
- Also, as always, the pretty girls and cops are on my side, most of them barely able to conceal their eye-rolling.
- You can hear the groans and see the eye-rolling, can't you.
- "This'll have to do, I guess," I said theatrically, all sighs and eye-rolling.
adjective ˈʌɪrəʊlɪŋ Causing someone to roll their eyes in exasperation, disbelief, or disapproval. the lines are delivered with eye-rolling attempts at whimsy and satire Example sentencesExamples - You missed the latest in a series of obtuse, eye-rolling interviews by the high school cheerleading squad that calls itself the news media.
- The Boyfriend in a Coma drama in the early episodes in particular is over the top, but it is played with such sincerity that it is mostly heart-warming rather than eye-rolling.
- The jokes are hit-and-miss, but the scenes that work are incredibly funny and help compensate for moments when the satire falls flat or for the occasional eye-rolling one-liner.
- There's an overwrought narration, some eye-rolling attempts to depict travel and time passage including pages being ripped from a calendar and a reasonable amount of sex.
- There's nothing even remotely new or original here - in fact, the whole damn thing reads as a list of the most cliched, eye-rolling nonsenses in film.
- They may have been trying to be clever but it provided a moment of surely-unintended, eye-rolling comedy in what was supposed to be a grisly, dark horror film.
- Usually if a horror film takes itself too seriously it winds up being an eye-rolling embarrassment full of unintended laughs.
- She arrived for her GL photo shoot in pink sweats and flip-flops, with no makeup and no eye-rolling diva demands about a restricted diet or off-limit topics of discussion.
- The comedy has some funny bits but relies on too many eye-rolling cliches for laughs.
- Their love grows, and not in a Hollywood way, with fabricated scenarios and eye-rolling misunderstandings.
- Even at their worst, the celebrity panel made for a thousand eye-rolling moments.
- It's one of the great eye-rolling moments of life in New York: as subway riders try to jam onto a crowded train at rush hour, the conductor makes an announcement telling them to stay on the platform because "there's another train right behind this one."
- It held my interest despite several eye-rolling scenes in which characters say and do things that NO one would say or do in real life.
- During the discussion about me adapting to the therapist's suggestions, my wife made an eye-rolling remark about me being reluctant to change.
- Not a lot of realism but enough realism to avoid the eye-rolling moments induced by previous attempts on the franchise.
- I suspect that for people like Chris and me, who spent the 90s in the software business and heard this kind of eye-rolling stuff on a daily basis, this is especially hard to take.
- For all the talk about his poise and command, he really is given to making some eye-rolling statements.
- There is a fine line between sweet glorious cheese and eye-rolling, forehead-slapping idiocy.
- Such eye-rolling preciousness appears often enough to make the record a maddening listen.
Derivativesadverb It's invariably going to be some eye-rollingly awful piece of quasi-mystical silliness. Example sentencesExamples - The coincidences and chain of events that lead our three travelers to their crossroads never feel eye-rollingly contrived, but rather inspire more of a sense of realization, more of a "So that's how they meet!" reaction.
- Although their witty banter comes off as eye-rollingly bad in the advertising, it actually works within the context of the film, once you get settled into it.
- Besides the snipey (though often clever) captions aimed at celebrity fashion faux pas, surgery mishaps and social gaffes, and the occasional writerly witticism, most mag content verges on the too serious or eye-rollingly earnest.
- One of the many reasons I enjoy his show is because - to put it in eye-rollingly pretentious terms - he has grasped the redefinition of the information stream.
Definition of eye-rolling in US English: eye-rollingnoun The action of rolling one's eyes, typically as an expression of exasperation, disbelief, or disapproval. there's been plenty of eye-rolling and head-shaking over the pronouncements Example sentencesExamples - "He's just a politician and he's fighting for his rights," he said reasonably, allowing himself only a little eloquently exasperated eye-rolling.
- No amount of eye-rolling was going to convince my captors that I really didn't need to participate.
- You can hear the groans and see the eye-rolling, can't you.
- Their threats to get into Gleneagles and "turf them out" are more likely to provoke eye-rolling and sniggering than real fear.
- Also, as always, the pretty girls and cops are on my side, most of them barely able to conceal their eye-rolling.
- If eye-rolling made a noise, you wouldn't have been able to hear yourself think.
- Even suggesting tentatively that she might like to empty the dishwasher can cause serious eye-rolling.
- It's only a matter of time until post-punk or new wave invoke eye-rolling, but don't give up on the genre just yet.
- "This'll have to do, I guess," I said theatrically, all sighs and eye-rolling.
- Permission for eye-rolling granted.
- People who ask me how it's going are met with groans, eye-rolling, whining about the taffeta that resides where my brain once did.
- Otherwise, the movie is hindered by a few story inconsistencies and some instances of typical audience eye-rolling.
- At least we now know those dark sunglasses function largely to shield the public from frequent bouts of eye-rolling.
- Other speakers spoke hopefully of a world organized into small confederations, eating food grown locally, a vision that understandably inspired eye-rolling from some of their fellow protesters.
- Slip the maligned term 'street theatre' into any conversation and you are guaranteed comic eye-rolling and wincing memories of zany clowns on stilts and wacky jugglers.
- There's been plenty of media eye-rolling about the California recall, but much of the coverage actually contributes to the wacky atmosphere it vaguely decries.
- He welcomed eye-rolling from onlooking reporters.
- There would be lots of eye-rolling, heavy sighs and throat clearing, but rarely any argument.
- You can imagine the eye-rolling I got.
- Watching the faces of the diggers in the background, I caught a lot of grinning and eye-rolling.
adjective Causing someone to roll their eyes in exasperation, disbelief, or disapproval. the lines are delivered with eye-rolling attempts at whimsy and satire Example sentencesExamples - I suspect that for people like Chris and me, who spent the 90s in the software business and heard this kind of eye-rolling stuff on a daily basis, this is especially hard to take.
- There's nothing even remotely new or original here - in fact, the whole damn thing reads as a list of the most cliched, eye-rolling nonsenses in film.
- The Boyfriend in a Coma drama in the early episodes in particular is over the top, but it is played with such sincerity that it is mostly heart-warming rather than eye-rolling.
- The jokes are hit-and-miss, but the scenes that work are incredibly funny and help compensate for moments when the satire falls flat or for the occasional eye-rolling one-liner.
- It held my interest despite several eye-rolling scenes in which characters say and do things that NO one would say or do in real life.
- She arrived for her GL photo shoot in pink sweats and flip-flops, with no makeup and no eye-rolling diva demands about a restricted diet or off-limit topics of discussion.
- You missed the latest in a series of obtuse, eye-rolling interviews by the high school cheerleading squad that calls itself the news media.
- There is a fine line between sweet glorious cheese and eye-rolling, forehead-slapping idiocy.
- During the discussion about me adapting to the therapist's suggestions, my wife made an eye-rolling remark about me being reluctant to change.
- Their love grows, and not in a Hollywood way, with fabricated scenarios and eye-rolling misunderstandings.
- Even at their worst, the celebrity panel made for a thousand eye-rolling moments.
- It's one of the great eye-rolling moments of life in New York: as subway riders try to jam onto a crowded train at rush hour, the conductor makes an announcement telling them to stay on the platform because "there's another train right behind this one."
- Not a lot of realism but enough realism to avoid the eye-rolling moments induced by previous attempts on the franchise.
- The comedy has some funny bits but relies on too many eye-rolling cliches for laughs.
- Such eye-rolling preciousness appears often enough to make the record a maddening listen.
- There's an overwrought narration, some eye-rolling attempts to depict travel and time passage including pages being ripped from a calendar and a reasonable amount of sex.
- Usually if a horror film takes itself too seriously it winds up being an eye-rolling embarrassment full of unintended laughs.
- For all the talk about his poise and command, he really is given to making some eye-rolling statements.
- They may have been trying to be clever but it provided a moment of surely-unintended, eye-rolling comedy in what was supposed to be a grisly, dark horror film.
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