(a.) Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(2) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
(3) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(4) Recognition of the distinctive morphology of MH and the performance of ancillary studies on cytologic preparations should facilitate the rapid diagnosis and early treatment of this aggressive disease.
(5) Ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma has distinctly different clinical behavior compared to serous carcinoma and should be regarded as an aggressive epithelial histologic type.
(6) Carcinomas exhibiting atypical behavior are characteristically undifferentiated and aggressive.
(7) In Study 4, attributional biases and deficits were found to be positively correlated with the rate of reactive aggression (but not proactive aggression) displayed in free play with peers (N = 127).
(8) This excess in diagnosis comprises, in particular, the ductal type, primarily its most aggressive forms.
(9) This documents the inhibitory role which lithium can play in several examples of animal aggressive behavior including pain-elicited aggression, mouse killing in rats, isolation-induced aggression in mice, p-chlorophenylalanine-induced aggression in rats, and hypothalamically induced aggression in cats.
(10) In the total sample, PEI factors and negative nominations were more stable than positive nominations, and PEI Aggression and Withdrawal scores were more stable than negative nominations.
(11) However, the typically deep invasion of the former tumors and their histologic features indicate that they are highly aggressive neoplasms.
(12) In Japan, particularly, there is a feeling that they were built less out of need than as another outlet for the aggressively proactive concrete industry.
(13) This experience, comparable to that reported by others, suggests that aggressive treatment in the terminal phase of CML is justified only as part of a prospective and well-controlled study.
(14) Three experiments in person perception were conducted to investigate the conditions under which naive observers label an actor as aggressive and to ascertain how this label affects the reactions of the observers to the actor.
(15) These changes in the isozyme pattern of PK in aggressive fibromatosis may act as another argument to place them in the category of malignant fibroblastic tumors.
(16) Response to a single, 5-mg dose of methylphenidate was compared in aggressive and nonaggressive attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) children using objective measures of inattention, impulsivity, and activity level.
(17) Factors contributing to a more aggressive form of carcinoma are unclear and require further study.
(18) Age at diagnosis (greater than or equal to 60 years vs less than or equal to 60 years), total number of involved sites, tumor bulk (mass size greater than or equal to 10 cm vs less than 10 cm), serum LDH (greater than or equal to 500 Units) and prompt achievement of complete remission following intensive combination regimens appear to be the most important variables predicting for cure in aggressive lymphomas.
(19) By and large, male and female rats react similarly to treatment with serotonergic drugs stressing the consistent role of 5-HT in different forms of aggression.
(20) These findings suggest that community differences in levels of violence are perpetuated as Zapotec children learn community-appropriate patterns for expressing aggression and continue to express these patterns as adults.
Litigious
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation.
(a.) Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious.
(a.) Of or pertaining to legal disputes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Savile referred to himself as "Litigiousness", given his willingness to take people to court, telling police: "Now if you're Litigiousness, people get quite nervous actually because for somebody that don't want to go to court, I love it."
(2) The differences are established in the manifestations and course of litigious-paranoid disorders of psychogenic personality-related origin and nonpathological querulousness.
(3) The letter to Carusone hints at Trump's litigious past, urging him to "look no further than former Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin, who just last week found herself on the wrong side of a $5m judgment in favour of Mr Trump after falsely stating in the press that the Trump-owned Miss USA pageant was both "fixed" and "trashy".
(4) A bit of a reality check on how litigious Americans actually are would help us get there.
(5) Finally, in the light of present day litigious trends, the question of the propriety of the policy is posed.
(6) This is partly because we practice in a generally more litigious society, but also because we only look superficially at negligence.
(7) The discussion will stress current knowledge regarding trauma and parkinsonism, and it will also review the issues of the possible role of the current litigious society's influence on determining a role for trauma in Parkinson's disease.
(8) All I ask is that she be happy about her sexuality, in spite of an unauthorised biographer (one of the few sources from where tabloids can still borrow potentially litigious information) enabling the Sun to out her with all the horny indignity of a rejected ex-lover.
(9) It also protects the investigator from embarrassing and potentially litigious situations.
(10) In the litigious sense, any deviation from optimal, ideal care or any unusual observations, such as unusual or atypical fetal heart rate patterns, are often causally linked to the adverse outcome.
(11) This being a story about powerful, litigious people, it was composed in befittingly genteel terms; the pair are described as having a "friendship".
(12) Eulex officials have pointed to an explosive fallout Bamieh had with a previous employer, the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service, in a bid to portray her as habitually litigious.
(13) In our increasingly litigious society there is persistence of an attitude that posttraumatic headache (or other injuries) will either improve or disappear following resolution of a claim.
(14) With changing social mores and more sophisticated consumerism, increasing litigious tendencies within the general population and a more informed public, there is a parallel increase in malpractice lawsuits related to this complication.
(15) In an attempt to better prepare students for dental practice in a litigious environment with cost-containment pressures, quality assurance requirements, and increased patient expectations, the New Jersey Dental School has begun planning and implementing various programs to teach students and faculty ethics, jurisprudence, and risk management.
(16) So we're really not all that litigious, yet we continue to be treated with kid gloves as though all it will take is a scraped knee for us to be on the phone to our lawyers.
(17) When stakeholders and customers of the bank are at risk of losing hundreds of millions or billions of pounds, situations can become very litigious and those are very scary numbers to be litigated," he said.
(18) This opened the floodgates for litigious celebrities.
(19) An excessive intensity and length of querulousness, as related to the objective value of the psychogenesis, the more pronounced trend to litigiousness manifestations, progressive loss of their relation to situational cues, aggressive traits in behavior, are all characteristic of litigious-paranoid disorders.
(20) Courts, administrative agencies and doctors are occasionally but stubbornly confronted with reproaches and viciously hostile attacks by habitual litigious grouchers and fault finders to whom court judgements or counsels are purposeful personal insults.