(n.) Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury.
(n.) Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good.
(v. t.) To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
(2) One disadvantage of the EHL is that it lacks the fragment-collecting capability that the ultrasound lithotripter features.
(3) Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages.
(4) The diet dilution technique overcomes the major disadvantage of the graded supplementation method for determining the requirements of amino acids, namely that of the amino acid balance changing systematically in successive dietary treatments.
(5) This paper considers the advantages and disadvantages of the instrument together with indications for its use and reviews 118 patients who had 130 oral lesions removed with the CO2 laser.
(6) MCT TPN was found to have some disadvantages, especially with regard to nitrogen balance and plasma albumin levels.
(7) We conclude that acute ischemia induces a mechanical disadvantage which is greater than just the loss of contractile function by the ischemic segment.
(8) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(9) This suggests that there is little survival advantage or disadvantage in the combination of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and sickle cell anaemia.
(10) In this paper, the main advantages and disadvantages of the following three techniques, i.e.
(11) We discuss advantages and disadvantages of total randomization, of Zelen-type randomization procedures, of Efron-type procedures vs more classical blocking procedures to control the balance between groups, and of Simon-Pocock-type procedures vs more classical stratification for controlling possible biases in prognostic factors.
(12) This article will review the orthopaedic conditions wherein ankle arthroscopy has utility, the advantages and disadvantages of arthroscopy, and nursing considerations for preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative patient care.
(13) Changes in the fitness of harmful mutations may therefore impose a greater long-term disadvantage on asexual populations than those which are sexual.
(14) After considering the advantages and disadvantages of preclinical laboratory exercises, they conclude that the former still outweigh the latter.
(15) The right atrial route is considered to be preferable as a primary approach and has no disadvantages.
(16) These were people who had neither disadvantage nor biological risk factors.
(17) Since they were established they have been credited with changing the face of children and family services, identifying disadvantaged children and families and providing targeted support.
(18) This article describes one way of circumventing these disadvantages.
(19) Each case must be assessed on its own premises: the substitution need, the availability of a transplant, the long-term prognosis, and the advantages and disadvantages of a solution with autotransplantation versus solutions without autotransplantation.
(20) Methods, advantages, and disadvantages of electrometry on wounds are reported.
Feisty
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The movie, adapted from Mandela's autobiography, shows Madikizela-Mandela as a feisty young woman who falls in love with the struggle activist, only to be left to raise their children alone when he is arrested and jailed.
(2) I have met brave, feisty writers, publishers and translators here in Turkey who will take on this challenge and not be intimidated, but how many others will decide that this is not a risk that they want or are able to take?"
(3) She isn't the first wannabe pop girl with intimations of "edge" and "darkness" in her songs to emerge this year , although she might be the last (hello, it's November), but the question is: does she bring anything new to the feisty, lusty-voiced electro-girl genre?
(4) But axing Hazel Blears, the feisty communities secretary, would be more difficult.
(5) They weren’t exactly fashionable, but they were feisty, they were sexy – and I think it related to the fabric of the city.
(6) In fact, for feisty, you have drink one of those pints with a submerged shot glass.
(7) They say you cannot please everyone, but referee Michael Oliver succeeded in pleasing neither Roberto Martínez nor Garry Monk in this feisty encounter which belied the mid-table comfort Everton and Swansea currently enjoy.
(8) Goodness knows how spiky things might have turned had Cheick Tioté, Pardew’s feisty Ivorian midfield enforcer, not been injured.
(9) A few minutes around the corner is ORSO , a 2014 coffee “laboratory” serving feisty arabica and robusta from around the globe.
(10) And it was not long before she and feisty Hefina in a tour de force performance became spokeswomen for their community.
(11) When I'd met Zaria, just before her operation, I was struck by the energy of this funny, feisty, beautiful young medical student with a tattoo and bundles of raven hair.
(12) In a wide-ranging interview in Broadcasting House the day after the review was announced, a feisty director general admits that the recommendations, to be delivered early next year, are likely to lead to "narrower services".
(13) It described Gordon as feisty and outspoken but often "highly dependent upon the men in her life".
(14) As the train clatters downtown, I allow myself to feel feisty, and just a little bit fond.
(15) A Forsa survey shows that the SPD has gained three points from a week earlier to 29% after the selection of the feisty, plain-speaking 65-year-old.
(16) A feisty and inspiring young head was resolutely tackling the school's problems to give his pupils a better chance.
(17) McCain cracked jokes and gave a feisty performance as he endorsed Romney.
(18) Just think of the hoardings: feisty women with attitude, sporting magnificent fingernails and vaguely dressed as St Mary Magdalene, are seen tearing at Pontius Pilate’s face – someone like Nigel Havers, looking saucy.” Christ’s Jerusalem Monopoly “My kids have a Star Wars one,” the permanent secretary tells a minister irritably.
(19) And there was this feisty meeting with Brazil in 1970.
(20) He also writes a feisty blog for the Financial Times - a recent example was headed "Confessions of a crass Keynesian".