(n.) One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
(a.) Murderous; cruel; barbarous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cutthroat trout had higher relative enzyme activities than rainbow trout from deposition of eye pigment to hatching.
(2) Using a densimeter technique, a kinetic analysis was made, employing both entrance and exit studies, of the permeability of erythrocytes of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri), German brown trout (Salmo trutta) and cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki) to glycerol, ethylene glycol, thiourea and urea.
(3) And it wasn’t so long ago that I tied Midnight In Paris to a chair and went all Mr Blonde on it with my cutthroat razor.
(4) Electrophoretic variation observed in muscle A group lactate dehydrogenase in Snake Valley cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki subsp.)
(5) His other screen appearances have been as varied as Robin Hood, Horne and Corden, Skins and Hollywood movie Cutthroat Island.
(6) These taxa show considerable genetic divergence at 42 structural loci encoding enzymes; the mean Nei's D between the rainbow trout and the two species of cutthroat trout is 0.22.
(7) Pathologic conditions associated with exposure to endrin were found in the gill, liver, pancreas, brain and gonad of cutthroat trout.
(8) Of 10 cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki) examined, there were metacercariae present in six.
(9) We examined the developmental rate of hybrids between rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) and two subspecies of cutthroat trout: westslope cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki lewisi) and Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki bouvieri).
(10) More than one million lake trout, an invasive introduced species, have been removed from Yellowstone Lake, with the park stating there are now signs that cutthroat trout are beginning to reappear.
(11) Comet, the UK's second largest electrical specialist after Dixons, has struggled to make headway as supermarkets and online retailers such as Amazon targeted the cutthroat market.
(12) The 70-day interpolated LE50 values (exposure concentrations of glochidia that killed 50% of the fish) for kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka kennerlyi), cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki), Atlantic salmon (S. salar), steelhead trout (S. gairdneri) and coho salmon (O. kisutch) were 17,500, 29,000, 35,000, 57,000, and 105,000, respectively.
(13) There is an immediate bite and we haul in a small, beautiful cutthroat trout, bearing the telltale red streak under its chin.
(14) The traditional two week "flop and drop" Mediterranean holiday has been hit by cutthroat competition which has slashed margins.
(15) Little voice Nick Clegg likes to cast himself as the nice man who's also a hardman, but his conference analysis of where the other parties were failing was less cutthroat than sore throat.
(16) This paper describes an homologous radioimmunoassay for coho salmon vitellogenin that demonstrates parallel cross-reactivity for plasma vitellogenin of all Pacific salmonids tested (chinook, chum, coho, pink, and sockeye salmon, and cutthroat and rainbow trout), but not for Atlantic salmon or two nonsalmonids: common carp and sablefish.
(17) The newcomer to the capital's cutthroat machinations, who launched his party a year ago, beat the former chief minster of the city, a veteran of the ruling Congress party who had dismissed his challenge as "not even on our radar".
(18) The taxonomic status of the Snake Valley cutthroat trout was reviewed.
(19) There has also been progress on protect native cutthroat trout in Yellowstone.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A cutthroat trout caught in Upper Redfish Hours later I’m woken by the cold tent skin touching my face.
Unscrupulous
Definition:
(a.) Not scrupulous; unprincipled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
(2) Free speech has protected hate speech, and opponents of censorship have consistantly defended the rights of unscrupulous populists and incendiarists.
(3) A health committee meeting in Sacramento, the state capital, on Wednesday turned into a tense showdown between lawmakers seeking to argue that the science is unequivocally on the side of universal vaccination, and activists accusing them of being in the pocket of unscrupulous big pharmaceutical companies.
(4) That would be a nice box-ticking exercise for an unscrupulous council and dodgy developers and a big two fingers for concerned environmentalists.
(5) A lot of the problems hark back to these unscrupulous brokers who didn’t have any real interest in education.
(6) However, many fear that candidates are focusing on fraud in an unscrupulous attempt to set the ground for complaints if they lose, and risk discouraging voters and discrediting the entire election process along the way.
(7) Milliken, author of a report on rhino-horn consumption in Vietnam , also expressed concerns about the end-user market: "One wonders if unscrupulous dealers in these markets will not simply employ some means to 'bleach' them to back to a 'normal' appearance and continue raking in high profits."
(8) MPs accuse Sir Philip Green of being an 'unscrupulous chancer' Read more “I think if Philip had assisted us, we could have saved BHS.” Chappell said that Green called in £35m of debt owed to Arcadia after finding out that BHS was trying to reach a rescue deal with Sports Direct, thereby blocking the deal.
(9) "It seems to be used by younger kids who don't have access to illicit substances, like those who can't afford cocaine and are being targeted by unscrupulous dealers," Winstock said.
(10) I am not saying that all wellness programs are surveillance programs, but what we are seeing with the current status of the law, they do have that potential for unscrupulous employers to use them as a way to check on their employees and investigate the health of their employees.” Optional versus affordable The employers and the various companies behind the wellness programs point out that all wellness programs are optional.
(11) Limited opportunities for safe and regular migration drive would-be migrants into the hands of smugglers, feeding an unscrupulous trade that threatens the lives of desperate people.
(12) Often, they had been recruited by unscrupulous agents in their home countries who then demanded repayment of loans and found them jobs on far lower wages than promised.
(13) When he’s cornered, Johnson accuses others of his own vices, as unscrupulous journalists always do.
(14) They have agreed to tackle unscrupulous labour contractors who may traffic children, and collectively report grievances to government agencies and the police.
(15) In the popular memory, it goes back at least as far as the 18th century, when unscrupulous Polish nobles betrayed the country by allying themselves with Catherine the Great.
(16) Its most enthusiastic supporter was the coup plotter James Goldsmith, one of the most unscrupulous asset strippers of that time.
(17) That is not the fault of migrants – it’s the failure of government.” He blamed unscrupulous employers and government spending cuts for the impact of immigration on the public.
(18) And he also fears that some of the more unscrupulous operators might use this issue as “another excuse” to persuade hirers to take the firm’s expensive extra insurance.
(19) An insider in the tobacco industry has revealed some of the unscrupulous tactics it is using to avoid new restrictions governing the marketing of cigarettes that come into force next month.
(20) The Mail on Sunday said highly sensitive information including customers’ earnings, savings, mortgages, health issues and insurance policies ended up in the hands of unscrupulous brokers.