What's the difference between creasy and greasy?

Creasy


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of creases.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This isn’t a devolved matter, this is about when they come to our shores here, UK taxpayers and their ability to use UK services,” Creasy said.
  • (2) Although Creasy spent her 20s working as a researcher for Labour MPs, her roots lie in community work – saving libraries, youth groups and local cinemas.
  • (3) Creasy said Green “did not deny abortion has been discussed” in negotiations with the DUP.
  • (4) Labour's competition and consumer affairs spokeswoman, Stella Creasy, has been given special responsibility to lead a campaign against abuses by legal loan sharks, Miliband said.
  • (5) Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, north-east London, who has mounted a robust campaign against the payday lending industry , says she believes, on the basis of conversations with Wonga's management, that it is trying to be responsible, in good faith, but somehow hasn't understood the fundamental nature of the market it is dealing with.
  • (6) People such as Caroline Criado-Perez , Stella Creasy, and even our own founder and director, Laura Richards, all received terrible treatment from the police and the Crown Prosecution Service.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘If Corbyn meant peace and unity, he could stop dead all talk of deselecting MPs, and protect MPs such as Walthamstow’s Stella Creasy’ (pictured above).
  • (8) There is something unexpectedly old-fashioned about Creasy.
  • (9) Updated at 3.18pm BST 2.56pm BST Stella Creasy MP: "How would you reform our tax system?"
  • (10) Although Twitter has been criticised for its tardy response to the threats directed at Creasy and Criado-Perez, Whittingdale said he did not know enough about the case to be able to comment on it.
  • (11) Wonga has come in for criticism from Creasy and other opponents of high-cost lenders, which entice consumers with large advertising budgets spent on extensive TV, press and outdoor campaigns.
  • (12) Labour's Stella Creasy, too, was criticised by the Sun's political editor for debating Page 3 while wearing a PVC skirt .
  • (13) In some ways Creasy, who has a PhD in social psychology, is asking a bigger question.
  • (14) Asked by Labour MP Stella Creasy how he would reform the tax system, he suggested: "Have a rational system that's predictable and doesn't change very much."
  • (15) Today’s news will be welcomed as an early Christmas present for Britain’s legal loansharks,” said Creasy.
  • (16) But it was described by Stella Creasy, the campaigning Labour MP for Walthamstow, as an inadequate response.
  • (17) The HDHQ (Foulds, Caine & Creasy, 1960) was administered to 100 long-term prisoners as part of routine psychological assessment prior to their allocation to training prisons.
  • (18) Creasy, who has described such firms as as legal loan sharks , tweeted on Wednesday urging people to tweet Ant and Dec's official Twitter account and email the general inquiry email address of their agent to protest about the sponsorship.
  • (19) A Twitter troll who bombarded the Labour and Co-operative politician Stella Creasy with abusive messages has abandoned an appeal against his conviction.
  • (20) We also shared our findings with Stella Creasy MP, the shadow consumer affairs minister.

Greasy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Composed of, or characterized by, grease; oily; unctuous; as, a greasy dish.
  • (superl.) Smeared or defiled with grease.
  • (superl.) Like grease or oil; smooth; seemingly unctuous to the touch, as is mineral soapstone.
  • (superl.) Fat of body; bulky.
  • (superl.) Gross; indelicate; indecent.
  • (superl.) Affected with the disease called grease; as, the heels of a horse. See Grease, n., 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
  • (2) Ivanovic simply seemed to pull a muscle when he slipped on the greasy surface.
  • (3) We head off for breakfast at a greasy caff in London's West End.
  • (4) After allowing the 0.25% greasy ointment to take effect for 6 hours, about half of the dose applied to rats and three quarters of that applied to pigs could be removed from the application area (rejection rate).
  • (5) The tiny room, furnished with a battered old desk and greasy-looking mattress, resembles a monastic cell.
  • (6) Touch the soil, as Dughan did, and as his daughter did too at the sight of him, and it felt greasy, heavy, as if someone had poured cream onto loam.
  • (7) Immunization to provoke a persistent anti-melatonin antibody response at the winter solstice resulted in significantly increased greasy fleece weight, % cashmere yield, and mass of cashmere produced, but no change in fibre diameter in both sexes.
  • (8) The concentration and base in which a steroid is used influence this activity, and traditional greasy ointments are probably the most effective vehicles.
  • (9) The Jamaican lived up to his showbiz reputation as he made light of the greasy conditions and waved to the delighted crowd on his way to the blocks.
  • (10) Traditionally, such an outcome has felt beyond all realms of reason and possibility, with the notion that a decent sort of chap could politick his way to the top of Vatican's greasy poll more outlandish even than the idea that such a soul could take the White House.
  • (11) The Italian greasy spoon (now gone) sold overpriced, watery cappuccino, but was only yards from both Downing Street and the Treasury, and its interior, only dimly visible from the street, was small enough to deter eavesdroppers.
  • (12) The resistance of the virus was tested in vitro in a fluid medium of 50% Henk's balanced saline solution, 50% Eagle's medium MEM and a supplement of 10% normal calf serum as well as its resistance on artificially virus infected pig skin and greasy wool of sheep.
  • (13) The only art scene in Glasgow at the time was figurative painting: people with long greasy hair and moustaches who were like, "I could've been a shipbuilder, but I decided to be a painter instead."
  • (14) There was subjective benefit in hair growth and greasiness and a significant reduction in the semi-objective Ferriman-Gallwey index in nine of 10 subjects assessed for at least 9 months.
  • (15) We go back again and again for another greasy burger or indeterminate hunk of fish, knowing full well how bad it is for us.
  • (16) We rely on consumers information regarding the following properties of sunscreens: stickiness, oily shine, greasiness, discoloration, odor, and tolerance.
  • (17) The majority of complaints concerned the greasiness of mupirocin ointment.
  • (18) In the Middle East, where sport has over the past 15 years become increasingly important as a means of projecting soft power and building nationhood, involvement in bidding for events and climbing the greasy pole in international sports organisations has become a useful means of obtaining and retaining personal standing.
  • (19) The advantages of immediate wound closure in case of open leg wounds, as opposed to delayed repair or the use of greasy dressings, need no longer be proven.
  • (20) In both the twelve and four month studies the marked placebo effect of "youthful skin appearance", and on skin greasiness in the twelve month study, indicate that no reliance can be placed on patient judgement of skin texture and appearance.

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