(a.) Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(2) This must mean that many same-sex contacts are by people who do not consider themselves gay or bisexual.
(3) It also pledged support to a veterans’ group that rejected a request by a gay, lesbian and bisexual group to march in the St Patrick’s Day parade in Boston.
(4) There were no significant differences in the adrenal weights of males or females, but females reared by bisexual pairs had larger absolute and relative adrenals than females reared in populations.
(5) The levels of specific antibodies were much higher in bisexual infection than in unisexual infection and closely related to the intensity and duration of infection.
(6) There was no acknowledgement in the agreement of the “deep pain these decisions will cause, nor any concern for the pastoral care of [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and intersex] Christians,” she said.
(7) Rates of victimization of and attitudes towards lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals at a well-known national liberal arts college were reported and compared to other institutions.
(8) The accumulating process and concentration ratios of ingested blood meals in the larvae and nymphs of Amblyomma testudinarium, Haemaphysalis campanulata, H. concinna, H. formosensis, H. hystricis, H. kitaokai, the bisexual and parthenogenetic strains of H. longicornis, H. megaspinosa, and Ixodes persulcatus on rabbits and Argas japonicus on chickens were comparatively investigated.
(9) Paterson added in the letter, published on the PoliticsHome website : "However, the government is rightly committed to advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and has already taken action to do so by allowing those religious premises that wish to carry out civil partnerships to do so, erasing historic convictions for consensual gay sex and putting pressure on other countries that violate the human rights of LGBT people.
(10) datch dattch A location-based app that seeks out lesbian and bisexual women nearby.
(11) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(12) Leaked Home Office documents show bisexual asylum seekers being asked degrading questions during hours of interrogation by Home Office officials – questions that included: "What is it about men's backsides that attracts you?"
(13) The AIDS epidemic is discussed in terms of its effect on general sexual attitudes and behavior of homosexual and bisexual men, then, in particular, on the issue of control over one's sexual behavior.
(14) The authors report on an anti-hepatitis C virus antibody (HCV Ab) prevalence (6.9%) in 622 homo-bisexual males from Northern Italy, voluntarily attending an HIV and STDs screening program in the period 1984-89.
(15) Symptoms of bleeding, almost always harmless skin or mucosal bleeding, were found in 45% of patients with a history of intravenous drug abuse and in 18% of the homo- or bisexual men.
(16) It turns out he is a member of the EDL's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender division, which has 115 members.
(17) Most of the cases in the U.K. have occurred in homo- or bisexual men, and the pattern of disease in the U.K. closely follows that of the epidemic in the United States.
(18) Transmission of HIV in many Caribbean countries has followed the pattern of initial predominance among homosexual and bisexual males, with the infection subsequently spreading into the heterosexual community.
(19) Of these, 13 were intravenous drug abusers, 13 were homosexual or bisexual, six were haemophiliacs, two were homosexual intravenous drug abusers and one was a heterosexual contact of a drug abuser.
(20) Over one third of the bisexual women reported having been involved in prostitution.
Sissy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) That has raised the possibility that their removal was sanctioned by the new heads of military intelligence, Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi and Mohamed El-Assar, in order to avert a greater challenge to their authority in later months.
(2) A decade later the story of his abduction at the hands of General Pinochet's troops was told in 1982 by film-maker Costa-Gavras in Missing , an Oscar-winner starring Sissy Spacek and Jack Lemmon.
(3) Tantawi's replacement, Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi, was formerly the head of military intelligence.
(4) The composer Charles Ives, for instance, spent his whole career in a sort of cringe, fearfully anticipating the accusation that to make music was a “sissy” activity.
(5) Now led by Mance Rayder (Ciaran Hinds), the self-styled King-Beyond-the Wall, the Free People look poised to descend on the sissy south in season three, in a campaign perhaps modelled on Bonnie Prince Charlie's raids into the heartland of the effete sassenachs of yore, or the Vikings marching on Stamford Bridge.
(6) The society I come from is still very patriachal and men are expected to be above women, and anyone who comes in with new ideas about equality is seen as a “sissy”.
(7) "O ld age," as Bette Davis said , "is not for sissies."
(8) Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said on Tuesday his country deeply regretted Regeni’s death and intended to “transparently” continue its “full cooperation” with Italy to resolve the case and bring the culprits to justice.
(9) Then you had somebody like Sissy (Papiss Cissé) he was the next goal scorer with something like eight.
(10) The new Morsi-appointed defence minister is Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
(11) Morsi replaced Tantawi with the head of military intelligence, Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi.
(12) Sissy Spacek in the movie version of Carrie, Kathy Bates in Misery, Tim Curry in It and Danny Lloyd in The Shining.
(13) Sissy Vovou Before they will release €7.2bn in aid that Greece needs to pay public-sector salaries and pensions and repay €1.6bn in IMF loans, those lenders want further reforms to the pensions system, including penalties to put people off taking early retirement and more cuts to even the lowest pensions.
(14) The magazine polled readers for their choice, and the winner was Egyptian general Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who didn't make the top 10 of Time's final list.
(15) The particular corner is not just any corner in the city – as Carlos Monsiváis describes it in La Mano Temblorosa de una Hechicera: “San Juan de Letrán was, back then, not a mere street, it was the center of life in the capital, of the life that was worth living (…) there began and ended the world of the prohibited, of that which only had a place in the sobremesa of solitary men (…) In that street walked drivers and politicians, hookers and women of high society, machos and sissies … I think it was in San Juan de Letrán where gays started coming out of their holes to start moving about, unhindered, and go after whomever allowed it.” As a young man Novo, later considered one of the major poets of the Contemporáneos generation (the Mexican modernist poets), lived a double, liminal existence between his family’s regime of typical gente decente and the forbidden underworlds of homosexual men in the still highly reactionary 1920s.
(16) Recently, trailblazers like Sissy Nobby and Big Dipper took the risks that made it easier for others to follow.
(17) The most important aspects of the questionnaire dealt with six "childhood indicators" of later adult homosexuality: (1) interest in dolls, (2) cross-dressing, (3) preference for company of girls rather than boys in childhood games, (4) preference for company of older women rather than older men, (5) being regarded by other boys as a sissy, (6) sexual interest in other boys rather than girls in childhood sex play.
(18) If they think they will come across as a nit-picker or a ‘sissy’, it’s far rarer.” Stephen Burrell, 27, is a PhD student at Durham University researching domestic violence prevention work with young men.
(19) Replacing Tantawi is the head of military intelligence, Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi – one of the generals who defended the use of "virginity tests" against female protesters in March 2011 – with El-Assar as his deputy.
(20) Bette Davis was right when she said: “Old age is not for sissies.” In later life, after a break-up or death of a partner, you can’t go off to work, or anywhere much, to distract yourself from thoughts of what you have lost and miss.