(a.) Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sheep infection trials indicate that the PLD-negative C. pseudotuberculosis strain (Toxminus) is incapable of inducing caseous lymphadentis (cheesy gland) even at doses two logs higher than that at which the wild-type strain produces the disease.
(2) And an incredibly cheesy Budweiser advert uses the bond between a man and his dog to promote road safety.
(3) Protection levels as high as 95% and 97.5% were attained in broilers vaccinated subcutaneously and no undesirable lesions or cheesy masses formed under the skin in the back of the necks of broilers.
(4) It might sound like the stuff of cheesy softcore but the film is subtle, controlled and low on nudity – the trappings of decor are treated more fetishistically than women's bodies – and Weigert's performance anchors the action in psychological complexity.
(5) He hasn’t stopped eating ice-cream, milk shakes, Cheesy Wotsits and chocolate.
(6) It seems that dystopian worlds create more drama and while I wouldn't say the original film was cheesy, it was camp.
(7) When these two children were examined bronchoscopically the tracheobronchial tree was found to be filled with white, cheesy material.
(8) In 2001 the retro-futurist Discovery revived appreciation for the kind of glossy soft-rock and sentimental 80s pop that most bands deemed too cheesy. "
(9) I popped in for a nightcap but end up staying for two hours, serenaded by locals murdering everything from Japanese power ballads to cheesy Brazilian pop and Bohemian Rhapsody.
(10) It feels like an award in itself, and before you just brush that off as being as cheesy as it sounds, after having been in the business for 20 years, this is the closest I’ve gotten to my childhood version of ‘making it’.
(11) So, if the only indulgence that is viable, that is within budget, that will not mean you have to walk to work, is a Styrofoam container of cheesy chips, the answer is a thunderous "YES".
(12) Trundling on a cheesy tourist trail around the Italian capital (the Trevi fountain, the Spanish Steps), it tells four whimsical stories that never intersect, meaning that its most watchable stars – Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Roberto Benigni and Allen, appearing in one of his movies for the first time since Scoop, in 2006 – never interact.
(13) Like so much of what Cage says and does, this should be cheesy, but somehow it isn't.
(14) Some are stylistic and structural: a fondness for bifurcated storytelling; characters and actors that shift from film to film; a tip of the hat to the cheesy Thai TV of his youth.
(15) The moussaka (£8.50) is heavenly: crunchy and cheesy on top, and intensely savoury below.
(16) And that schmaltzy Bronner's experience wouldn't be complete without lashings of cheesy slogans.
(17) "I mean, my children sometimes have Cheesy Wotsits, but my children are perfectly thin because they don't have them all the time.
(18) Capital Radio's drivetime DJ Lucio has been named as the new presenter of the UK's commercial chart show, Hit 40 UK, and has immediately thrown down the gauntlet to BBC Radio 1 saying its chart is "dismal, bland and cheesy".
(19) Dialogue Young Guns does a generally enjoyable line in cheesy, quotable, tough-guy speak.
(20) The Bee Gees became cheesy, Chic became cheesy, and by the 80s disco was a dirty word.
Contrived
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Contrive
Example Sentences:
(1) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
(2) Here they led within 90 seconds against a team whose fragility has been all too clear this term, and still contrived to wilt almost apologetically.
(3) And I'll be catching several buzzy acts who I contrived to miss last year – Ivo Graham, Ursula Burns, Trygve (Squidboy) Wakenshaw, Phil Wang, Paul Currie.
(4) Rafael Benítez must contrive a way of picking this team up, as well as a starting lineup who are relatively fresh for Elland Road and a cup tie that once would have stirred the senses.
(5) When Grayson remarks to the men he meets that his transvestism allows him enough distance from maleness to view it as an observer, rather than bristle they nod, quietly ponder for a moment and then step back themselves, apparently accepting that maleness is such a weird contrivance that to look at it with critical eyes is Not Even A Thing.
(6) Capello's men have contrived to fail more severely than the line‑up beaten 4-2 by Uruguay in 1954.
(7) Support is provided by intercostal angiography, and by observations upon normal anatomy, the pathological anatomy of mature scoliotic spines and the anatomy of contrived scoliosis in normal spines.
(8) The natural and the contrived social experiments are reviewed as well as the issue of needed research on the effects of regulation on science and on the protection of privacy.
(9) Even after the Daily Mail's Jack Tinker (obituary, October 29 1996) contrived for Shulman's career as a theatre critic to be brought to an end in 1991, he continued to write a column for the Evening Standard on art affairs - until he was 83.
(10) Some patients find that the risk of a spontaneous attack is lessened following a self-induced seizure and can therefore contrive their fits to occur only in situations which are safe and convenient.
(11) Some contrivances in anastomosing a conduit were also proposed to achieve an excellent result.
(12) "It's more contrived in terms of 'good girl gone bad' or 'I'm so edgy – I'm twerking in this context.'
(13) Always a contrived fiction, this sequence juxtaposes a poignant fantasy of a fully fit presenter with the merciless world of hard news.
(14) A coded panel of 100 contrived dried blood spots prepared form well characterised anti-HIV-1 and anti-HIV-2 positive sera and an anti-HIV negative serum was distributed to eight testing centres.
(15) Despite papal fiction being such a crowded church, Harris, in Conclave , contrives a twist involving the number of cardinal-electors that seems to me completely new, showing that the genre still has possibilities.
(16) Although oral administration volume is limited in small animal model, enhancing its antitumor effect may be possible in clinical application by contriving the method of administration.
(17) Events went from bad to ridiculous for the Redbirds in the second inning, when Stephen Drew popped the ball up into the infield and catcher Yadier Molina and pitcher Adam Wainwright both moved towards the ball and then contrived to call each other off and watched the ball drop harmlessly between them.
(18) "We will dedicate our seventh goal to our wives, and the eighth to our dogs," quipped one player, while the manager, Jupp Derwall, promised that if his team contrived to lose he would "jump on the first train back to Munich".
(19) The tasks were presented in various ways: by means of a table-top simulation on which traffic scenarios had been contrived; by means of photographs of road situations; and by taking the children to real-world sites in the streets near their schools.
(20) The amendment left the government facing the prospect of scuttling its own legislation to give the tax office greater powers to stop global companies using “artificial or contrived arrangements” to avoid tax obligations.