Sentence examples for pillock from inspiring English sources

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pillock

noun

A stupid or annoying person; simpleton; fool.

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Mr Berlusconi made a similar statement during the last electoral campaign when he said that those who did not vote for him was a coglione (a pillock).Barrie Spicer RomeSIR – Italy is facing a "perfect storm" of a suffocating euro in a stalemated political environment.

During a Q&A, Hook was invited to name the "biggest pillock" he'd ever met during his days as a regular at the legendary Hacienda Club in Manchester.

Oh, and if you're a pillock then I'll deal with this mercilessly in my next column... do I hear a tenner anybody?

For me, there is little more vexing than being accosted by a grinning pillock wanting to chew my ear off about rainforests just when I'm looking to blow a load of cash on some overpriced tat.

For the rest of us, it is entirely possible to observe that Lord Carey, for instance, is a pillock, wazzock and berk of the first order without showing the faintest signs of wanting to smash his windows or shepherd his children into a gas chamber.

A twinky (two incomes, nanny and kids), perhaps; a woopie (well-off older person), a snag (sensitive new-age guy), or maybe even a pillock (paltry income lots of kids)?

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There's the ill-advised gents' fedora (you don't look like Don Draper: you look like a homeless Secret Squirrel) and the generally lovely ladies' wicker trilby, but score points here for the perennial party-pillock favourites – the Mushroom, Jester and Viking.

It also helps matters that 6 Music isn't run by self-aggrandising pillocks on speed dial to major-label pluggers, all plump on long lunches in Soho and with a bad case of ADHD.

The advertising industry has inflicted upon us some strange and irritating tropes over the years but surely none is worse than the knuckle-dragging pillocks that dominate the sports betting landscape.

Describing the Eurocrats as "pillocks", he praised Margaret Thatcher and inverted one of her best known sayings.

Not only that, they can fast-travel away from any annoying pillocks who decide to play The Crew primarily as a way to cause grief to other players.

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