(a.) Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head.
Example Sentences:
(1) England will not delude themselves that this match, and with it the series, was lost because of a single piece of sharp practice by Sachithra Senanayake – or even, if they take a more self-critical approach, one moment of doziness from Jos Buttler and a separate breakdown in communication between the wicketkeeper and Chris Jordan.
(2) Even economists weren’t dozy enough to miss that the fact that the same pound paid for Britain’s imports, meaning that after devaluation it bought fewer goods, and therefore domestic prices would go up.
(3) Peculatities of background electrical activity of some projection regions, the I somatosensory (field 53), and I and II auditory (fields 22 and 52, respectively), visual (field 17) and associative cortex (field 5), were studied in chronic experiments, performed on unanesthetized dozy cats.
(4) This isn't the dozy, middle-aged PBS that Seiken shocked into YouTube action.
(5) For those who believe in the survival of the fittest, the only surprise was that this apparently lumbering, dozy and sexually inadequate species had clung on for so long.
(6) "It is excellent that the OFT has announced this investigation – at last, dozy officialdom is waking up to the abuses in leasehold, ranging from small-scale Rackmans to huge corporate players.
(7) They are charming and decorative and have fulfilled my hopes that they would prove more lively and adventurous than my two dozy, stick-in-the-mud, non-laying Marans hens.
(8) My grandmother gave him hell when we got back because I was still dozy.
(9) It is an island without law.” **** Dozy had not set out to find gold in 1936; his goal was to scale the region’s highest glacial peak.
(10) We need to invest in ensuring that data [will] be there for everybody to use.” Poor monitoring renders millions of elderly people worldwide 'invisible' Read more Speaking last month at the first Africa open data conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Dozie Ezigbalike, chief of the data technology section at the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa, said giving people access to information would allow them to hold their governments to account.
(11) Still dozy, clutching her sheets and blankets, they would head for the cold stairwell.
(12) But Lescott soon made up for that by exploiting equally dozy defending by Southampton , guiding the ball into the net from close range after a corner by Veretout.
(13) Everton 1-2 Swansea City: Premier League – as it happened Read more Even so it was a surprise when they took an early lead through some unforgivably dozy home defending.
(14) During the 4,800-metre ascent, Dozy noticed an unusual rock outcrop veined with green streaks.
(15) The department of health was dozy, with Frank Dobson and then David Blunkett in charge.” A senior civil servant, now retired, who worked in the department for transport but asked not to be named, said that cost-benefit studies of a switch to diesel were done by government but climate change was “the new kid on the block” and long-term projections of comparative technologies were not perfect.
(16) The front, for example, is a twee, unnecessary Nigel Waymouth photo of Drake the Homely Folkie sitting moon-faced and dozy-eyed pouring over a Spanish guitar and fronted by a pair of “bumper”-styled brothel-creepers.
(17) And it really does not work with dozy policymakers.
(18) A lack of segregation, caused by the Football Association of Ireland reselling tickets in English sections to Irish fans, and a security operation that was not just complacent but outright dozy, did not help either.
(19) In 1936, Dutch geologist Jean Jacques Dozy climbed the world’s highest island peak: the forbidding Mount Carstensz, a snow-covered silver crag on what was then known as Dutch New Guinea.
(20) Next, Daniel Libeskind proposed the Spiral , a large, jagged, teetering addition to the V&A whose aim seemed to be to startle Exhibition Road out of its doziness.
Sleepy
Definition:
(n.) Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep.
(n.) Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion.
(n.) Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
(n.) Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aside from snoring, excessive daytime sleepiness was on average often the first symptom and began at a mean age of 36 years.
(2) Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by sleepiness and episodes of cataplexy.
(3) Nominees: Sticks and Stones, Maroon Productions for Channel 4 Charlie and Lola "I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed", Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Children's Breakthrough Award - Behind the Screen Jonathan Smith - Make Me Normal, Century Films for Channel 4 "The jury said that this year's winner had directed a moving and inspiring documentary which forced the audience to consider the impact of autism and Aspergers syndrome and how it can impact on the lives of those it affects."
(4) The main disabling symptom of narcolepsy-cataplexy is shown to be the unrelenting excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) based upon controlled studies of socioeconomic effects and the poor response to treatment.
(5) We conclude that there is a heterogeneous subpopulation of patients with sleep disorders whose symptoms of daytime sleepiness will show no treatment-related improvement in daytime symptoms if they are evaluated only by the MSLT.
(6) At the same time we evaluated the effect of DGAVP on mood, alertness or sleepiness in a double-blind placebo-control design.
(7) It is the most preponderant finding among patients referred to diagnostic sleep laboratories, particularly among patients complaining of excessive daytime sleepiness.
(8) Before undergoing a polysomnographic examination, 123 patients filled in a questionnaire inquiring about fatigue and sleepiness while driving a vehicle as well as accidents during the past three years.
(9) Danger signs of stridor and abnormal sleepiness were poorly recognised (sensitivity 0-50%) by the health care workers, as was audible wheeze.
(10) "The business department stopped being a sleepy backwater and became a great office of state," he said.
(11) The authors describe the clinical picture of a case with a peak-wave stupor in a 16 year-old patient where the main clinical expression of this disorder was behavioural sleepiness.
(12) Migration has turned a sleepy town with a population of 31,000 in 1872 into today's megacity of 21 million, the ninth-biggest city in the world and South America's wealthiest and most important economic hub.
(13) The results indicate that a moderate dose of ethanol significantly increases physiological sleepiness during early morning hours even in individuals that are relatively alert at these times.
(14) Anxiety trait (Spielberg State Anxiety Trait) did not correlate with sleepiness, but higher anxiety scores were significantly associated with poor performance.
(15) Feelings of sleepiness, lasting several hours after waking, were more common after thiopentone than after etomidate.
(16) However, the EEG scores strongly suggested that volunteers were more sleepy at 8 h after nitrazepam in comparison to placebo or midazolam.
(17) The late nap was more efficient in reducing sleepiness during the last 5 h of the experiments (23.00-04.00).
(18) When the effects of age and time of day were partialed out, PLR data suggest that increased sleepiness as measured by MSLT is significantly correlated with increased parasympathetic activity (r = -0.60, p less than 0.01) and not with decreased sympathetic activity (r = -0.24, not significant).
(19) REPEATABILITY: scores were high, ranging from 0.92 to 0.99, for all symptoms except flushing (all grades 0.91), nausea (all grades 0.90) and sleepiness (severe, 0.82) (method of Bulpitt et al).
(20) These were unrelated to such factors as age of delivery, percentage weight gain, the baby's sex or birth weight, alcohol consumption, smoking, a history of migraine or allergy or other symptoms occurring during pregnancy such as sleepiness and lack of concentration, irritability, loss of interest in job or nightmares.