What does bentō mean?
Bentō means simple past and past participle of bend.
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/bɛnt/ · verb
simple past and past participle of bend.
Asked bluntly by Julie Webb of the NME whether he was “bent” in December 1974, Freddie answered evasively: “You're a crafty cow. […]”
He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
They were bent on mischief.
[…]in the ape posse, bent on vengeance, traversing landscapes clothed in snow and bristling with California red fir and silver pine, spooking human stragglers, and running across fresh graves as they search for the nameless colonel and try to piece together why the humans are killing each other.
Near-synonym: butthurt
She was bent about "certain kinds of people" having civil rights; she wanted to roll those back.
That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
Man, I am so bent right now!
Use bentō when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bentō means simple past and past participle of bend.
Common synonyms include disposition, predilection, proclivity, propensity.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Asked bluntly by Julie Webb of the NME whether he was “bent” in December 1974, Freddie answered evasively: “You're a crafty cow. […]”
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