(superl.) Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.
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Example Sentences:
(1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(2) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
(3) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
(4) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
(5) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
(6) "Seller reports are key to identifying bad buyers and ridding them from our marketplace," says eBay.
(7) Botswana, Kenya, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have also been badly hit.
(8) We are better off in.” Out campaigners have claimed that the NHS could be badly hit by a decision to stay in the EU.
(9) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
(10) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(11) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(12) On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
(13) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
(14) It's bad enough that they're so thin,” said Kilbourne.
(15) "I am in a bad situation, psychologically so bad and confused," one father said, surrounded by his three other young sons.
(16) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
(17) Another five years of Tory rule with all the terrible consequences that will have is bad enough.
(18) We suggest that sick districts can be affirmed on the basis of the total amount of fluoride intake, the prevalence rates of dental fluorosis, bad incomplete teeth, milk-teeth and the mean output of urinary fluoride between 8 and 15 years of age.
(19) Two hundred forty-six fetuses had at least one abnormal biophysical profile variable with the risk of bad outcome, for a single abnormal variable, ranging from 8% (body movements) to 100% (tone) and increasing from 14% (any variable abnormal) to 63% (all variables abnormal).
(20) This is bad constitutional reform, but it is a reform anyway.
Overripe
Definition:
(a.) Matured to excess.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even Jack Straw is trying to close down some of its overripe practices.
(2) Although this method should be devoid of side effects, certain risks have been reported due to the possible fertilization of an overripe ovum.
(3) they are caused by seasonal pre-ovulatory overripeness ovopathy (SPOO).
(4) In addition, overripeness may also lead to chromosomal abnormalities and to babies with Down's syndrome.
(5) The eight criteria which have to be met before a condition can be said to be caused by overripeness ovopathy are shown to be satisfied.
(6) It has been suggested that delayed ovulation and luteal phase defect are the pathogenetic factors responsible for the anomalous postconception bleeding and that these etiologically interrelated phenomena are closely associated with the occurrence of overripeness of the ovum.
(7) An asynchronism of several hours between the stage of development of the largest and large cohort follicles is observed; overripeness of oocyte cumulus complex (OCC) is revealed.
(8) The degenerative changes that characterize overripeness are conducive to the occurrence of chromosome and anatomic anomalies in the fertilized ovum.
(9) Possible consequences of preovulatory overripeness of the ovum include occult and early spontaneous abortions, a wide spectrum of chromosomal defects, various developmental anomalies, including those of the brain, and gestational abnormalities.
(10) The tested nutrients were distilled water, overripe fig fruits, guinea pig blood, sucrose solution and alternative meals of blood and sucrose.
(11) The theory of the fertilisation of an overripe ovum due to a delay in fertilization, and more recently the aging of the sperm.
(12) In addition, conception occurring at the time of seasonally alternating patterns of ovulation and anovulation, the seasonal overripeness hypothesis, is subject to alterations associated with ovopathology.
(13) In experimental animals, it has been shown that when coitus is delayed for several hours after ovulation, the oocyte becomes overripe and degenerates.
(14) Topics discussed include nosologic problems, epidemiology, etiology (chromosomal, monogenic, teratogenic), and pathogenesis (hematoma formation, other vascular mechanisms, overripeness ovopathy).
(15) Seasonal Preovulatory Overripeness Ovopathy (SPOO) is one explanation for seasonal variations in the occurrence of congenital anomalies.
(16) Future research should better be directed to causes of preovulatory overripeness ovapathy (OO) other than seasonality.
(17) Therefore we suggest that the preovulatory oocyte overripeness is one of the mechanisms of congenital malformation.
(18) Makes 1 tart 5 overripe avocados, peeled and destoned 300g organic raw cacao 300ml agave syrup 2 tbsp coconut oil 1 tsp salt 1 vanilla pod For the base 250g walnut 200g prunes (soaked overnight) 1 For the base, blitz the prunes and walnuts together.
(19) Pathological changes of either the pregnancy or the products of conception may be caused by preovulatory overripeness, and can be expected in conceptions which occurred at times of changing endocrine patterns, such as puberty (high-risk teenage pregnancies) and menopause (high-risk older maternal age pregnancies).
(20) Absence of ovulation is conducive to sterility, while delay of the follicular maturation process predispose to the development of an overripe ovum.