(n.) One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Mauritian Creoles, the frequency of the Z + 2 allele was greater in Type 2 diabetic subjects than in control subjects (23.8% vs 8.9%, p = 0.008), and the frequency of the Z allele was lower in Type 2 diabetic subjects (60% vs 75.6%, p = 0.03).
(2) The group, which does not speak Creole, relies on a young local fixer to select beneficiaries, disburse funds and keep records.
(3) More men in the rural area expected help in old age from their sons (10.1%) rather than their daughters (6.1%), despite the fact that a popular proverb exists, especially among the Creoles, that sons are for the mother while the daughters are for the father.
(4) "But there's some Creole in there, and he makes his own language up as well.
(5) From days 21 to 28 after a synchronization treatment (progesterone + PMSG), ten Creole heifers and ten FFPN heifers were checked for oestrus and sampled for blood every 3 h to assay plasma LH levels and every day from that oestrus to the following one to assay plasma progesterone content.
(6) Defoe has been coming here every year since he was a baby, he even speaks the local French-based creole with family - and fellow players.
(7) Significant differences (P less than .01) were found in the frequency distributions of three IGHG (GM) haplotypes and the frequency of IGKC*1 in these data and data from Creole populations of Belize and St. Vincent.
(8) Among the hemolytic tests, the crucial B system analyses indicated that 1) the Creole-like animals were more similar to Longhorns than were the controls; 2) the three groups were different from each other; 3) the three groups were not mutually exclusive.
(9) "There's a Sierra Leonean saying that you don't walk into someone's house with your two long arms," he explains, and then translates it into Krio – the Sierra Leoneon creole he learned growing up: "Yu no for go na pass in us wit you long arm."
(10) The high prevalence of abnormal glucose tolerance in Indian subjects is consistent with studies of other migrant Indian communities, but the findings in Creole and, in particular, Chinese subjects are unexpected.
(11) Rectal temperature (RT), respiratory rhythm (RR), plasma cortisol and prolactin (PRL) levels and haematocrit were measured at noon in male Creole goats during their habituation to shade, during sudden exposure to sunlight and then while they were kept outdoors.
(12) 1.1.1.14) was studied in liver, kidney and gonads of Zenaida auriculata auriculata (golden pigeon) and of Anas platyrhynchos (creole domestic duck) from South American faunes.
(13) In the French quarter they have an interpretation of Creole cooking that incorporates ingredients such as garlic, rosemary and olive oil with Indian recipes.
(14) 300 samples of serum (in seven age-groups) from the "creole" population of french Guiana were tested for antibodies to the four human herpesviruses (HSV, VZV, CMV and EBV).
(15) Creoles had the highest mean value of systolic and diastolic blood pressure and the highest prevalence of hypertension whilst Muslim Asian Indians had the lowest values both in men and women.
(16) Prevalence of hypertension was investigated in Mauritius in 2362 men and 2712 women among Hindu and Muslim Indian, Creole and Chinese ethnic groups aged 25-74 years.
(17) However, he does not seem to consider the possibility that the new nation state could be institutionally very different from the model of the colonial state, or the creole, mestizo state that came after it.
(18) Everything is French-Creole inspired, with my own seasoning and recipes.” Cathy finishes her cup and heads back to work.
(19) The mean age was 55.1 years and the range 24 to 89 years; 45.8% of cases came from the Creole population.
(20) You mix that Negro with that Creole make a Texas bama” – an insult that, perhaps, only Beyoncé was ever capable of reclaiming.
Immoral
Definition:
(a.) Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s immoral.” On Twitter, Harris has occasionally mentioned his background when debating these matters.
(2) It is socially very divisive, it is stigmatising, it is subtly slanderous and it is immoral.
(3) The public would consider such schemes "completely and utterly and totally immoral" and those involved in devising and marketing them were "running rings around" tax officials, she said.
(4) Whatever the dogma, opposition to it is not just wrong, it is immoral.
(5) Fishing news Barcelona chairman Sandro Rosell says Arsenal were "immoral" to poach their youth player Jon Toral: "We don't like it that clubs come in with offers of money just before boys turn 16.
(6) People who campaigned against controls were conducting an immoral campaign.
(7) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
(8) It’s not illegal and it’s not immoral, but it’s probably best that we don’t talk about it at parents’ evening.’ Even at seven, she asked ‘But why is that a bad thing?’ And I said, ‘Well it’s not, but not everybody sees it that way.’” They moved to a new home, where both her neighbours and the school have been supportive and protective of her.
(9) Prominent physicians have recently stated that it is not immoral for a physician to assist in the rational suicide of a terminally ill patient.
(10) If you are a whistleblower like Edward Snowden, who tells the press about illegal, immoral or embarrassing government actions, you will face jail time.
(11) That, said the court today, "would make the whole trial not only immoral and illegal, but also entirely unreliable in its outcome".
(12) In the US, activists including the American Civil Liberties Union argue that it is immoral to claim ownership of humanity's shared genetic heritage.
(13) "Attempts to stop people communicating are in principle counter-productive and even immoral.
(14) Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, said Mandela was a "great man" who had made racism "not just immoral but stupid".
(15) The means test would have applied to cancer patients and stroke survivors, and was denounced by Lord Patel, a crossbencher and former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians, as an immoral attack on the sick, the vulnerable and the poor.
(16) One is that Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman empire in the early 19th century, denuded the Parthenon of much of its sculpture immorally, or even illicitly.
(17) He added: "These statistics show keeping aid promises is worth the world – and that breaking them should be deemed immoral."
(18) Profumo's confession and the Ward trial broke open the shell of the old establishment, exposing its immorality and incompetence.
(19) She felt the modern western world dealt badly with death – "the idea that mortality is a failure" – and that to waste time or use it without pleasure was "almost immoral".
(20) Walter wanders deeper into a world of which he previously knew nothing, deeper into immorality, but as the viewer you are always able to understand why he's doing it.