Balked
[bɔ:kt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Balk
Editor: Wilma
Examples
- Mr. Osborne dropped it with the bitterest, deadliest pang of balked affection and revenge. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Real affection, it seemed, he could not have for me; it had been only fitful passion: that was balked; he would want me no more. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Whatever Clara's intention had been in asking to be brought hither, it was balked by the presence of the soldiers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- How this fascination of the obvious has balked the work of the Commission I need not elaborate. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Wilma