(adv.) In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.
(adv.) Lovingly; with tender care.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urinary excretion of PGF2 alpha was not affected by atenolol.
(2) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(3) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
(4) alpha 1-Adrenergic agonists, phenylephrine and norfenefrine, did not affect the synthesis.
(5) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
(6) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(7) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(8) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(9) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
(10) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
(11) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
(12) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(13) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(14) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
(15) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
(16) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(17) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
(18) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
(19) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
(20) The pH gradient measured with dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione and acetylsalicylic acid was very small in both bacteria at a high pH above 8, and was not affected significantly by the addition of CCCP.
Cutesy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It was time to branch out a little, and if it took Zooey Deschanel to push me off the cliff of cutesy little dresses and into the world of more adult dressing, well, question not the means but welcome the result.
(2) The clothes are at the forefront of Shibuya fashion, taking cues from the park sandpit, the urban divebar and grandma's wardrobe, and reworking them into a cutesy package for teenagers.
(3) In previous outings, conversation prints and skater skirt shapes could have been seen as cutesy, but this season's dresses had no-brainier ease that also came with a Beckham-branded complexity and sophistication.
(4) So I carved the – sickeningly cutesy – pet name she'd given me.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Other late-night shows always seemed to find it harder to take on Trump at all – Jimmy Fallon took on a significant amount of criticism for having the candidate on The Tonight Show for a cutesy interview late in the campaign , while Saturday Night Live has been struggling to play catch-up since the ethical lapse of Trump’s bland hosting gig late last year.
(6) Clearly, the early word that Romney would offer "zingers" was a misdirection, as he avoided most cutesy or canned lines.
(7) This combination of cutesy characteristics is impossible to resist.
(8) The current posture from Abbott and the Coalition is not all smoke and mirrors and cutesy politics.
(9) He knew the darker side and what it means to have demons,” Gilliam said, adding that Williams helped to turn the scenes from “cutesy” on the page to something much darker.
(10) The two most likely, however, are JJ Abrams's spy drama The Undercovers, a Hart to Hart for the 21st century starring Britain's Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and the cutesy rom-com Love Bites, Working Title's first production for US television .
(11) Cutesy euphemisms are used, like wine o’clock and mummy petrol.
(12) At times it’s in danger of veering into annoyingly cutesy Kids Say the Funniest Things territory, but then the kids are often as funny as the adults.
(13) Cutesy graphics and a nagging chiptune soundtrack made this under-the-radar game one of the most appealing Android releases of 2014 so far: easy to play, but difficult to put down.
(14) When Poehler self-deprecates, she doesn’t do it in a charming, cutesy-wootsy way, but rather an honest way, and then counters it with some self-pride and self-awareness.
(15) But why can't someone write a female equivalent of, say, the mock-biopic Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, so Anna Faris could expand on her scene-stealing Britney Spears impersonation from Just Good Friends with a potted send-up of half a century of girly music, instead of being stuck in cutesy fluff like The House Bunny?
(16) 5 Rose Cottage, Mojandita, Otavalo As the name might suggest, this Andean resting spot is part-British owned, which also shows in the country-garden flowers and cutesy cabins.
(17) We’re taking a slightly more disciplined approach now: no building in the cluster should be trying to shout down its neighbour.” For the past year – since the departure of chief planner Peter Rees, who had a thing for towers with quirky profiles and cutesy nicknames – Richards and his team have been developing a 3D digital model that visualises the invisible planning constraints in the City.
(18) It's a seductive mix of cutesy visuals and extreme blood-splattered chaos.
(19) Some names are a bit cutesy for my liking, but then same-sex couples do not have the thousands of years of precedent to follow, as straight couples do.
(20) Then, like now, I split my time between the brutalist centre of Corby, and a handful of the smaller towns and villages that seem to exist in a different world: Thrapston, Irthlingborough – and Oundle, the cutesy settlement built around the public school of the same name (and, weirdly, the one-time home of Billy Bragg, who wrote his enduring classic A New England at No 15 North Street, two minutes from the short stay car park).