(a.) Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.
(a.) Extreme; excessive.
Example Sentences:
(1) He warned of the “devilish” intentions of the US, even as he reaffirmed his support for Iran’s negotiating team.
(2) She says she saw the girls' "devilish twitching" and "committing impudences".
(3) eneath the jokes, the headline fodder, the superstitions and devilish charm, there is another side to Cellino.
(4) Robbie Brady breezed past the right-back Emre Can to send a devilish cross into the six-yard box and Mignolet punched the ball out as far as Jake Livermore.
(5) Yet there the four sat piously deploring "complexity" in a tax system that keeps adding volumes to the code just to chase down their devilish loopholes.
(6) We are doing all we can to bring Peter Greste home.” The prosecution closed its case in Cairo on Thursday, accusing the three journalists of making a “devilish pact” with the Muslim Brotherhood, who were ousted from power by the Egyptian military in July 2013.
(7) Perhaps this devilish bait-and-switch enables us to understand better what political talk of “aspirations” for the masses really mean.
(8) Since then, in truth it has been a bit of a slog with consistency devilishly hard to come by.
(9) Their debut full-length, Hell on Heels , found them giving voice to third-generation bartenders, drug-addicted housewives and devilish gold-diggers.
(10) And you sense that if you put so much as a full stop in the wrong place, some devilish voice from hell will exclaim ' Muahaha....we got you ! '
(11) 3.08pm BST 8 min: This time City work the ball cleverly on the left, Kolarov playing a neat one-two with Toure and fizzing a devilish low ball into the six-yard box.
(12) Recorded at the new Paisley Park studio he had built in 1986 on the outskirts of Minneapolis, Sign was devilishly eclectic, travelling from the doom-saying title track - an unsettling mix of hypnotic electro rhythm, bluesy guitar and fragile, semi-rapped lyric - to the Philly rhapsody of 'Adore' via the frantic power pop of 'I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man'.
(13) But that was the least of the pain inflicted on Brunt by Zaha, whose speed and devilish dribbling tormented the left-back from start to finish.
(14) Devilishly cunning new legislation in 19 key US states, designed to place obstacles between voters and the ballot boxes most likely to affect those who vote Democrat, may eventually swing it for the Republicans.
(15) Stylish, devilishly expensive – the perfect bag in which to carry around statistics about third world debt.
(16) Two years later came The Destroying Angel – a much darker piece, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe; a nightmarish series of encounters for a young seminarian with a devilish character and magic mushrooms.
(17) What if by some devilish miracle the great 1920s iconoclast H.L.
(18) Like every other globally traded commodity foodstuff, quinoa is devilishly complicated and prone to tragedy.
(19) Howard had to leave his line to block Dembélé early on, after Sylvain Distin's loose back pass and Rose's run and devilish cross nearly found Adebayor.
(20) What also gets overlooked sometimes is the devilish way they work to get the ball back when they lose it.
Reprobate
Definition:
(a.) Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.
(a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved.
(a.) Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct.
(n.) One morally abandoned and lost.
(v. t.) To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject.
(v. t.) To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The biotin and its attached streptavidin and radiolabel can be removed under mild conditions and the blot reprobed with a different antibody using an identical protocol.
(2) Replacing radioactively labeled probes by nonradioactive ones and detection by chemiluminescence instead of colorimetry allows a nonhazardous handling and offers the possibility of easily reprobing filters in Southwestern analysis.
(3) Repeated strippings and heterologous reprobings resulted in loss of target DNA from UV-immobilized nylon membranes as compared to baked nylon membranes.
(4) Thirty-three of sixty-one flies reprobed with an Endotrypanum probe were positive.
(5) The recurrent dacryocystocele was reprobed and the abnormality was resolved.
(6) DNA from the cDNA-positive cosmid clones was transferred to nylon filters and reprobed with cDNAs to identify restriction fragments that were expressed in these tissues.
(7) How did the Republican party allow that reprobate to hijack it?
(8) Northern blots reprobed with H1t-specific oligonucleotide showed that H1t mRNA remained prominent when TH2B mRNA started to decline after 8-12 days of coculture.
(9) A first technique allows to detect zinc- and DNA-binding proteins immobilized on the membrane; a second (a modification of Southern-Western blotting) makes it possible to detect DNA-binding proteins followed by immunological reprobing.
(10) He whips out his smartphone and records the scene, documenting the offence, and confronts the suspected reprobate with a voice which can boom across a street: “Hey!” California drought shaming takes on a class-conscious edge Read more Corcoran is a drought-shamer.
(11) New probes, based on sequence that lies beyond other restriction sites, are then synthesized, and the membranes are reprobed to reveal new sequence.
(12) Analysis with direct beta counting was also shown not to interfere with the successful reprobing of stripped dot blots with either unique sequence or total genomic probes.
(13) In the longer term the Conservatives only get away with supporting universal values like the rule of law and human rights while also condemning non-white foreigners, immigrants and benefit scroungers, because they are always silently whistling that none of the values we supposedly uphold apply to these reprobates.
(14) Many specimens among 37 other serum samples showed greater or lesser degrees of homology to different probes, as demonstrated by reprobing of samples fixed to nylon membranes.
(15) The hybridized nylon membranes could be stripped of probe and reprobed at least 6 times without loss of signal strength.
(16) These conceptions and their cultural influences incidentally inform us about one of the origins of the reprobation of onanism, as well as one possible way, among many others, for traditional thinking to explain the clinical enigma of depressive syndrome.
(17) (As told in the 1950 World Cup 'final' MBM from And Gazza Misses The Final , written by the excellent Rob Smyth and some other reprobate.)
(18) The Southern blots were reprobed with a cloned fragment of the STA2 glucoamylase gene of S. diastaticus.
(19) If the trailer is any indication , this final series will see the various gangsters and reprobates of the prohibition era attempting to legitimise themselves as businessmen.
(20) Repeated cycles of oligomer probe synthesis and subsequent reprobing permit rapid sequence walking along the genome.