Bedsit

It’s what the estate agent I rented it from euphemistically called a studio and what Mum and Dad unappealingly call a bedsit. ❋ Holly McQueen (2010)

On 5 January 2003, anti-terror police removed suspect items from a bedsit in Wood Green. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is also used as a slang/familiar word for a bedroom that looks more like a junk room where everything is on top of each other - also used for a miserable bedsit, a small, uncomfortable & untidy house. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Anthony has to travel one-and-a-half hours from the palace back to his one-room bedsit, because he can't afford any accommodation closer in. ❋ Unknown (2011)

What Kinnear portrays marvellously is a deeply rational intellectual seeking to cope with a world that makes increasingly less sense: his only recourse is a despair that leads him to hole himself in what looks like a student bedsit and then a subversivness that prompts him to hand out T-shirts showing a smiling villain. ❋ Michael Billington (2010)

The exhibition, which opens in February, and brings together works by Mondrian and Nicholson originally shown in the same galleries, examines a little-known period of Mondrian's life in the late 1930s when he lived for two years in a bedsit in Hampstead, north London, and socialised with Nicholson, his first and second wives Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and other avant-garde British artists. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In a north London bedsit, political turmoil is reflected in the maelstrom of a group of friends. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In fact, not knowing the place in question was Jacques 'flat, I thought poor Alexix was actually living not too far from your place, in a very messy room/bedsit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The play opens with two post-coital naked figures on a single bed in a dreary bedsit. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

Combining several functions in a single room is something Mr. Grenney is very comfortable with and his "bedsit" years have influenced the way he lives and decorates. ❋ Rita Konig (2011)

I don't think living in a bedsit in Durham would have been any good. ❋ Emine Saner (2010)

I dossed down in a bedsit in adjoining Marloes Road – catching a Greenline bus each morning for shifts on the Slough Observer – and Willie and I occasionally laughed and drank in the Princess of Teck local; that summer of 1962 we watched the Pakistanis at Lord's and had a memorable day together at the Wimbledon tennis. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The other area, a shabby bedsit, is inhabited by Andy's estranged sons, Jake and Fred, who pass their days playing fantasy games about father-figures. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the brief first act Leigh shows Jean, a Brummie girl who lives alone in a Kilburn bedsit, having joyless sex with a married man played by Daniel Coonan whose wife suddenly bursts in upon them. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I always think that if things ever go horribly wrong and I have to move into a bedsit, at least I'll still have a real piano that will fit. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Prescriptivism is a sophomoric mode of thought, the recourse to absolutism as the bolsters and barricades of an immature philosophy; it is a bedsit built of books, a safe haven in an uncertain world. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

His mobile number returned "unobtainable", his landline number had been reallocated and he had left his bedsit. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In Hampstead he moved into a bedsit on the same road as the Nicholsons, which he promptly painted white, and worked in a studio next door to Nicholson's. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"ooh your so much more normal than the last [tennant], he lived on a diet of [special brew] and [fish fingers] and only washed in a leap year" ❋ Spud (2005)

1st homeless guy:"[shall we] [rent a room] from bedsit bob?" 2nd homeless guy:"i'd rather [get a job]" 1st homeless guy:"i'd rather die" ❋ Harray Shipmonay (2008)