(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.
Wasting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waste
(a.) Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(2) Muscle wasting in MYD may be explained by these abnormalities as well.
(3) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(4) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(5) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(6) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(7) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
(8) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
(9) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
(10) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.
(11) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
(12) Sagan had a way of not wasting words, even playfully.
(13) In the end, prisons are all about wasting human life and will always be places that take things away.
(14) It just seems a bit of a waste, I say, given that he's young and handsome and famous.
(15) Any surplus food left over goes to anaerobic digestion energy plants, which turn food waste into electricity.
(16) By its calorific value the mycelial waste is equal to brown coal or peat.
(17) The observed differences in Na excretion suggest that this aldosterone hypersecretion may be of pathophysiological importance as a protection against inappropriate renal waste of Na during the early phase of endotoxin-induced fever.
(18) Hyperbilirubinaemia in newborn infants is generally regarded as a problem, and bilirubin itself as toxic metabolic waste, but the high frequency in newborn infants suggests that the excess of neonatal bilirubin may have a positive function.
(19) The original agricultural wastes had captured CO2 from the air through the photosynthesis process; biochar is a low-tech way of sequestering carbon, effectively for ever.
(20) In March, the Tories reappointed their trusty old attack dogs, M&C Saatchi, to work alongside the lead agency, Euro RSCG, and M&C Saatchi's chief executive, David Kershaw, wasted no time in setting out his stall, saying: "It's a fallacy that online has replaced offline in terms of media communications."