(n.) The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.
(n.) Delay or procrastination.
(n.) Entertaining discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's as good a precis of this game so far as you'll read, courtesy of Matt Dony: "Watching this game is like flicking back and forth between, say, Barcelona vs Spain, and QPR vs Sunderland circa their last dalliance with the Premier League.
(2) Where we already have the electoral numbers, our political vengeance has been merciless against the GOP; witness California after its electoral dalliance with anti-immigrant policies or Mitt Romney’s disastrous 2012 campaign .
(3) Putin has long been rumoured to have had a series of dalliances with much younger women, and there has been speculation that he fathered a child with a former Olympic gymnast.
(4) It has been clear for some time that the dalliance with Labour is over and that the financiers were about to come out in their true colours.
(5) His dalliance during the 1990s with Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir has left a lasting enmity with many leaders in the Dinka community, South Sudan's largest tribe, from which Kiir hails.
(6) She grew up in a Wellington suburb, and wanted to be an actor from the age of six; after a brief dalliance with university, she headed to drama school.
(7) Although MI5 had known about Profumo's dalliance with Keeler for many months, the first politician to learn about it was John Lewis, the former Labour MP for Bolton, who mistakenly thought Stephen Ward had seduced his wife.
(8) This was no brief dalliance: Hitchens was a member for many years, leaving in his mid-20s.
(9) Was it OK that, as Linda McDougall recalls , he occupied the medical room at the Look North studios for his dalliances with "lady friends" or that "he was one of those people who had his hands all over you and all over any female that came in".
(10) Dominic Fifield Florian Thauvin’s three Premier League starts after a £12m move from Marseille probably drew the line under Newcastle’s dalliance with the French market, particularly as he ended the season back at Stade Vélodrome on loan.
(11) Did Flavor Flav's dalliance with reality TV (4) dilute Public Enemy's potency?
(12) He said that his novels were not selling any more and were not getting any better, though at least one, Consider the Lilies (1968) is still very funny and readable (the others are Path of Dalliance, 1963, Who Are the Violets Now, 1966, and A Bed of Flowers, 1971).
(13) It's seen most clearly in France, where privacy law often interferes with news organisations' ability to publish information about the dalliances of politicians.
(14) Nespresso's velvety crema and its darkling thimble of ristretto daily give me the illusion I am a sophisticated continental, living in caffeinated leisure at a pavement cafe where only lovely things – passionate dalliances, superb cakes – are on today's menu.
(15) But as well as a place for such dalliances, it was also "a bordello, a whorehouse", with clients making use of the four or five hotel rooms above the bar, according to Mizrahi.
(16) After tennis, he became infamous for his rightwing political views, including a dalliance with the National Front.
(17) Some high calibre movement and slick one-touch stuff from a forward clearly being fast forgiven for that summertime dalliance with Arsenal prompted Liverpool fans to sing: "Luis Suárez; he can bite who he wants."
(18) Super-injunctions have been granted to footballers and to a married actor who is said to have paid for sex with a prostitute who previously had a dalliance with Wayne Rooney.
(19) This was indirectly confirmed by official North Korean documents recently: when Jang Song Taek was purged in December 2013, the indictment mentioned both his fondness for private rooms in the expensive restaurants and his dalliances with women.
(20) It even promoted a growing welfare state under Chamberlain and postwar Butskellism , a dalliance that did not fundamentally alter under Thatcher, Blair or Cameron.
Illicit
Definition:
(a.) Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The typology developed in two previous surveys of illicit heroin products is applicable to many of the samples studied in this work, although significant changes have occurred in the chemical profile of illicit heroin products from certain geographical regions.
(2) Despite 50 years of criminalisation, illicit drugs are now the third most valuable industry in the world, after food and oil.
(3) An epidemiologic background appropriate to "serum" hepatitis, either transfusion (one bout) or illicit self-injection (46 bouts), was associated just as frequently with serologically non-B episodes as with identified type B disease.
(4) While there has been some unevenness in the extent to which successful risk reeducation has occurred, it is nonetheless dramatic compared with prior health educational efforts, and especially so given the exceptional sensitivity of the sexual and illicit drug using behaviors at issue.
(5) In view of recent reports demonstrating that illicit cocaine use may cause rhabdomyolysis, we reviewed the collective experience of a university-affiliated medical center to identify patients with cocaine-induced rhabdomyolysis.
(6) According to research and advocacy organisation Global Financial Integrity , nearly $1tn in illicit financial flows—the proceeds of crime, corruption, and tax evasion—flows illicitly out of developing countries every year.
(7) She rather fearlessly implied that "women who make lots of money from illicit sex" should forfeit the right to freedom of expression.
(8) By definition, illicit drug use is delinquent behavior.
(9) Newly admitted patients from two comprehensive drug abuse programs in the Baltimore area were queried concerning frequency of illicit methadone use and availability of illicit methadone for a 3-month period prior to their admission.
(10) If it agrees, the process of review could take until spring 2012, delaying implementation of the act even further, while content companies assert that illicit filesharing is costing UK businesses £400m annually in lost sales.
(11) Subjects (n = 108) who volunteered to participate in a study in which they expected to smoke marijuana were asked, as part of a screening procedure, to rate the harmfulness of a number of illicit drugs including marijuana.
(12) We have not turned the tide on the ease with which money can be shifted out of developing countries.” There are lots of ways to get money out of a country undetected but the easiest is through trade misinvoicing, which is the overpricing of imports and the underpricing of exports – and accounts for 77% of all illicit financial flows.
(13) Over 23 per cent of these samples were found positive for a drug other than methadone and 80 per cent of these positives were attributed to illicitly used drugs.
(14) A sample of 499 young adults in which illicit drug users were overrepresented were surveyed.
(15) Forty-four percent of the sample had comorbid substance use on admission, with marijuana and stimulants accounting for the majority of illicit drug use.
(16) Cocaine users tend to use other illicit drugs (particularly marijuana) and to be cigarette smokers and heavy drinkers much more frequently than nonusers.
(17) Research on their potential should not be curtailed because of fear that they will be subject to illicit abuse.
(18) The aggressive teenagers differed from the non-aggressive subjects firstly in their alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug consumption, and secondly with respect to other deviant behaviour, such as stealing, running away from home or violent victimization.
(19) In North America and Europe, certain legal highs were more widely used than traditional illicit drugs among younger age groups.
(20) The observation in the previous survey that unrelated samples of illicit heroin possess unique chemical profiles has been confirmed by the present results.