(superl.) Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
(2) MPs including Chuka Umunna, Stephen Doughty and Kate Green won the backing of 101 MPs, including 49 Labour rebels, for their amendment to the Queen’s speech, which called for the government to abandon the idea that “no deal is better than a bad deal” in the Brexit talks.
(3) It is what made American librarians into such doughty defenders of private reading.
(4) Among the confirmed events are a debate in January, in Berlin, featuring the writers Claire Tomalin, Toby Litt, Louise Doughty, Philip Hensher, Denise Mina and David Nicholls.
(5) The Rangers were the first to strike at the Staples Center Wednesday night, care of Benoit Pouliot (on the breakaway, off an uncharacteristic mistake by Drew Doughty) at the 13:21 mark of the first period.
(6) LA defenseman Drew Doughty and 18 others on his team have combined 64-2 in these decisive encounters.
(7) Then there's Roger Federer up against the doughty Tommy Robredo, who beat the world No4 at the US Open last year.
(8) An Officer and A Spy beat books including Louise Doughty’s Apple Tree Yard to win the CWA prize and is, said the organisation , an example of “masterly storytelling” and an “outstanding, beautifully written novel [that] transforms actual events into an edge-of-the-seat thriller”.
(9) Setanta's investors include venture capitalists Balderton Capital and Doughty Hanson and investment bank Goldman Sachs.
(10) Prof Julie Doughty, lecturer in law at Cardiff University, who is being funded by Nuffield to research transparency in the family courts, said current measures did not go far enough.
(11) There are signs of life: Labour’s education spokeswoman Kezia Dugdale has proved a doughty campaigner, in some areas, particularly when challenging the legal loan sharks circling over ever-struggling families, though she seems reluctant to say the least.
(12) Sham on that Doughty... That means we have some wide-open four-on-four hockey for two minutes, and all of that open ice favors the speed of the Rangers.
(13) During a stadium tour at Stamford Bridge his father telephoned to say that Nigel Doughty, the former Forest chairman, had died.
(14) Now Doughty turns around, fires and Lundqvist makes the stop - there may have been a deflection there but the Swede was on it!
(15) The Iron Lady You need an actor to do charming, doughty and steadfast?
(16) In the UK, the doughty chair of the public accounts committee, Margaret Hodge, investigating Google for tax avoidance has denounced the firm as "devious", "calculating … and manipulating".
(17) 1.57am BST Rangers 0-1 Kings, 01:12, 1st period But wait, now Drew Doughty thrusts his stick up at Stepan, and he goes for cross-checking, so there goes their man-advantage.
(18) • by Chuka Umunna MP, Phil Wilson MP, Madeleine Moon MP, Maria Eagle MP, Liz Kendall MP, Stella Creasy MP, Wes Streeting MP, Mike Gapes MP, Kate Green MP, Lord Michael Cashman, Anne Coffey MP, Ian Murray MP, Rushanara Ali MP, Karen Buck MP, Stephen Doughty MP, Stephen Timms MP, Lord Spencer Livermore, Catherine McKinnell MP, Lord Peter Hain, Tulip Siddiq MP, Peter Kyle MP, Ruth Cadbury MP, Bridget Phillipson MP, Pat McFadden MP, Ann Clwyd MP, Thangam Debbonaire MP, Chris Bryant MP, Andy Slaughter MP, Daniel Zeichner MP, Alison McGovern MP, Darren Jones MP, Kerry McCarthy MP, Ben Bradshaw MP, Clare Moody MEP, Seb Dance MEP, Luciana Berger MP, Lord George Foulkes, Catherine Stihler MEP, David Martin MEP, Jude Kirton-Darling MEP, Mary Honeyball MEP, Paul Brannen MEP, Richard Corbett MEP, Julie Ward MEP, Derek Vaughan MEP, Lucy Anderson MEP, David Lammy MP, Lord John Monks, Meg Hillier MP, Adrian Bailey MP and Lady Meta Ramsay
(19) Replays show that Doughty's shot was deflected off of Dominic Moore.
(20) Her professional profile on the Doughty Street Chambers website has been changed from Amal Alamuddin to Amal Clooney.
Doughy
Definition:
(a.) Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Report of a patient who discharged water and doughy stools since birth.
(2) He was sloppy and careless, never more so than when Cunningham, a blown-up cruiserweight more than 3st lighter and years past his best, detonated a right hook on his exposed chin that sent his doughy form crashing to the canvas in the second round.
(3) Doughy consistency of the mass and quadriceps atrophy are other features.
(4) Multiple irregular ulcers, doughy infiltration of the bowel wall, multiple nodules and diffuse polyposis of the colon are classic patterns of secondary lymphoma of the gut.
(5) Of course, you need good bread, not the remains of a doughy, sliced loaf – those are only good for the ducks.
(6) Patient 2 developed 30 min after a similar dive painful, doughy swellings and redness over the upper ventral half of the thorax and both upper arms.
(7) Erythrodermic mastocytosis is a rare variant of diffuse cutaneous mastocytosis in which the skin becomes red, thickened, and lichenified and has a doughy consistency with multiple small papules on its surface, giving a leathery appearance to the skin.
(8) Abdominal pain and tenderness were the commonest clinical findings; "doughy abdomen" and a mass in right iliac fossa were uncommon.
(9) At the time of cementing of the femoral component, the medullary canal had been plugged with a bolus of bone cement and then filled with doughy Simplex-P methylmethacrylate in a retrograde fashion using a cement gun.
(10) Especially once the nation has watched video footage of a five-year-old Boris with soft doughy thighs negotiating a rubber boat down a river.
(11) Fermentation produces a white doughy paste – around 22,000 tonnes of it every year.
(12) In the fixated prosthetic group (eight rabbits), a 1.5-cm3 doughy bolus of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) was used to cement the prosthesis firmly.
(13) If Canadians are God's doughty people – and some of them these days his doughy people too – they were stoically out to enjoy themselves.
(14) The conformation of wheat gluten proteins in their functional hydrated solid state (doughy state) has been studied for the first time using attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy.
(15) The skin felt doughy and swolen on palpation but there was no oedematous pitting.
(16) The crisp-shelled burger buns are slightly doughy and absorbent and mould themselves around the contents.
(17) Group 1 received a bolus doughy Simplex polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) cement injected into the proximal tibia through a drill hole.
(18) Group I received a bolus of doughy Simplex polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) cement injected into the proximal tibia through a drill hole.
(19) One pair of siblings had subcutaneous tissue of doughy consistency and another pair had bladder hypertrophy.
(20) Of course, the tour is punctuated by stop-offs at two of Muia’s favourite pizzerias for a doughy, cheesy, refuel.