(a.) Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.
(a.) Opposite.
(a.) In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.
(v. t.) To oppose; to resist.
Example Sentences:
(1) There fore, the adverse effects may be induced by such quartz or silicon compounds.
(2) The following is a brief review of the history, mechanism of action, and potential adverse effects of neuromuscular blockers.
(3) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
(4) The AL plus EA produced significantly greater adverse effects than with SFO plus EA.
(5) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
(6) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(7) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
(8) Only an extensive knowledge of the various mechanisms and pharmacologic agents that can be used to prevent or treat these adverse reactions will allow the physician to approach the problem scientifically and come to a reasonable solution for the patient.
(9) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
(10) One thousand singleton low-risk pregnancies were cross-sectionally studied at 36-40 weeks gestation with continuous-wave Doppler ultrasonography in order to assess its usefulness as an antepartum monitoring technique for the identification of fetuses at risk of developing an adverse outcome.
(11) The relatively high concentrations of desethylchloroquine and bisdesethylchloroquine found during chronic treatment show the need for more information about the therapeutic value and adverse effects of the metabolites.
(12) Urinary incontinence present between 7 and 10 days after stroke was the most important adverse prognostic factor both for survival and for recovery of function.
(13) Long-term treatment with agents that stimulate the beta-receptor (prenalterol and pirbuterol) has not proved to be useful in the treatment of chronic heart failure; moreover, prolonged treatment with beta-agonists (dobutamine and pirbuterol) may adversely affect survival.
(14) Since ASA has a greater potential for adverse effects, paracetamol is increasingly preferred to ASA, particularly in children.
(15) When a product is selected for a patient, consideration should be given to necessity, efficacy, adverse effects, and cost-effectiveness.
(16) The presence of prostatic invasion either into the stroma or involving prostatic ducts and acini only had no adverse effect on outcome.
(17) Oocytes obtained by laparoscopy were compared with those obtained under ultrasonic guidance to determine whether CO2 exposure had any adverse effect.
(18) It is mentioned that the lack of a valuable status for industrial physicians may adversely affect the evolution of training programs in Switzerland.
(19) Alternatively, the data presented herein strongly suggest that diets containing conventional quantities of fat, in which saturated fat is replaced by unsaturated fat and dietary cholesterol reduced, would result in the desired reductions to total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations without the adverse effects of increased postprandial glucose and insulin concentrations, increased fasting and postprandial total and very-low-density lipoprotein triglyceride concentrations, and decreased fasting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations.
(20) "I have to say that it is my expectation that they probably can be, because the data that we have to date is unlikely to show an adverse impact."
Repugnant
Definition:
(a.) Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sir Philip Green has interesting tax arrangements but far from being labelled morally repugnant in a Mexico TV studio, he has got a government review to head up," she said.
(2) For example, the Basics Card is touted as an innovative policy when in fact it offers repugnant flashbacks to last century’s mission days when Aboriginal people had their bank accounts controlled by the state.
(3) George Galloway and moral repugnance in the same sentence: whoever would have thought it?
(4) He has previously sparked controversy by questioning the existence of "homophobia", suggesting that some people find same-sex relationships "distasteful if not viscerally repugnant" and arguing that there are "different degrees of culpability" in rape cases.
(5) She added: "Repugnant as it was that the aggressor should gain anything from his aggression, this seemed an acceptable price to pay.
(6) While the bathroom law is controversial in itself, many express concern that the loss of the right to sue in state court for transgender discrimination is equally repugnant.
(7) Still the Vatican turns a blind eye to this most repugnant and damaging of all sexual practices, the suffering little children whose priests come unto them.
(8) The party denounced Smith as "repugnant" after a book by the most recent incumbent as MP in Smith's Rochdale seat, Labour's Simon Danczuk, detailed repeated crimes by the late Liberal politician and drew similarities with serial sex offender Jimmy Savile.
(9) Ruling initially accepted by foreign secretary, Robin Cook, but a "feasibility study" ordered into the potential return June 2004 UK government tries to block return of islanders through two orders in council, royal decrees which declared no one had right of abode May 2006 The high court overruled the orders in council, describing their use to expel an entire population as repugnant 2007 Foreign office appeal rejected
(10) A fairly solid insistence that they did not followed from anonymous officials soon enough, but the effect was not what it would have been if a crisp, immediate and unambiguous denial had come straight from the lips of the chancellor, who has called tax avoidance “morally repugnant”.
(11) Cameron's problem is that the changes he has already introduced have been greeted with deep repugnance by many on his own side.
(12) A genuinely tolerant state will often be called to protect opinions which are both wrong and repugnant to the majority.
(13) If you’re going to be leader of the free world, you have to be able to accept criticism, and Mr Trump can’t.” Trump, who as a young man obtained deferments and did not serve in Vietnam , also faced criticism from the families of 17 Americans who died in war, who in an open letter asked him to apologize to the Khans and other families of fallen soldiers for comments they said were “repugnant, and personally offensive”.
(14) "What seems to me repugnant about what happened is that the prosecutors' duty was to seek justice and the truth.
(15) So I think when something is so morally repugnant to so many people, why should tax dollars go to this?” I think a lot of people, even a lot of pro-choice people, are upset by these videos Rand Paul The legislation up for a vote on Monday would bar federal aid to Planned Parenthood and shift the money to other healthcare providers.
(16) "Oddly, [Cameron] did not take the opportunity to condemn as morally repugnant the tax avoidance scheme used by Conservative supporter Gary Barlow, who has given a whole new meaning to the phrase Take That.
(17) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, speaking before the suspect was released, condemned the attack as gruesome, saying it would be repugnant if the attacker turned out to be a person seeking asylum in Germany.
(18) To those like the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, it was proof that "to force comrades, with methods repugnant to human dignity, to accuse themselves of imagi nary betrayals and sign letters in which even the syntax seems to be that of the police, is the negation of everything that made me embrace, from the first day, the cause of the Cuban revolution: its decision to fight for justice without losing respect for individuals".
(19) There is nothing intrinsically repugnant to human rights in sex work if you exclude violence, deceit and the exploitation of children.
(20) But when we find the killer's motive as repugnant as his action, we put our fingers in our ears.