(n.) The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
(2) Four brain smears from dogs which died of dumb rabies were positive for Negri bodies while two brain smears obtained from dogs which died of the furious form of rabies were negative.
(3) The court heard that MP responded to Nimmo's message of "Dumb blonde bitch" with the message "That's dumb Dr blonde bitch to you".
(4) At the moment, most of our electricity and gas meters are dumb, analogue devices: they record your consumption and someone comes round periodically to take a reading.
(5) We now show by immunoelectron microscopy that Fab fragments of a desmin-specific monoclonal antibody mixed with the rod lead to dumb-bell-shaped structures.
(6) On admission, a dumb-bell type huge tumor with the destruction of the orbital roof was demonstrated on CT scan and MRI.
(7) The non-solid bacilli were further classified on the basis of their morphology to the following forms:-- (a) short but evenly stained (b) indented (c) beaded (d) dumb-bell shaped (e) coccoid and (f) fragmented.
(8) In an ideal world, such findings might be interpreted as smart women making smart choices, but instead it seems that this research is just adding fuel to the argument that women who don't have children, regardless of the reason, are not just selfish losers but dumb ones as well.
(9) Large granules, 160 nm in diameter, already reported in the ITP (KEMALI 1977a), are also shown as well as tiny flat mixed with large flat dense core vesicles of dumb-bell shape.
(10) Critics accused the BBC of dumbing down when Kirsty Young replaced Sue Lawley as host of Desert Island Discs, while t he dismissal of Ed Stourton from the Today presenting team was executed shambolically , with the presenter learning his fate from a rival news organisation rather than his bosses.
(11) As in canine rabies there are furious and dumb forms of the disease.
(12) Charlie Hebdo was launched by a group of "non-conformists" who had previously run a monthly called Hara Kiri (whose subtitle read: "dumb and nasty").
(13) He might have been born with a silver spoon and declared bankruptcy four or five times but he is not dumb.
(14) A GST on fresh food is an exceptionally dumb strategy in the midst of an obesity crisis | Catherine King Read more Labor said that much of that money would go towards compensating lower income earners, leaving little money for other services.
(15) Dumb rabies and cysticerci in dogs being sold to people in rural communities pose potential public health hazards.
(16) In a blog published on Friday afternoon entitled "My teenage mistakes" , Weldon said his year-long flirtation would have remained the embarrassing stuff of his youth had he not a few years later done what he described as a "dumb thing" and boasted about his past in an Oxford student newspaper.
(17) Mitt's now trying to rebut the "Let Detroit go bankrupt" line o argument, which is dumb.
(18) The internet of things is the idea of creating a home where everything is connected to the internet, creating “swarm intelligence” from individually dumb devices.
(19) Gove launched an all-out attack on the "educational establishment", claiming it suffered from "defeatism, political correctness and the entrenched culture of dumbing down".
(20) "We will tackle head-on the defeatism, the political correctness and the entrenched culture of dumbing down that is at the heart of our educational establishment."
Speechless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.
(a.) Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Oh my goodness I am truly speechless,” Aduba told Good Morning America .
(2) Axel Schäfer, European affairs spokesman for the Social Democratic party (SPD), said: “Like many other politicians in Germany I am speechless at what stupidity nationalism can trigger in seemingly intelligent people.
(3) During three month periods, the patient progressively became somnolent, speechless and immobile.
(4) Stewart Regan, SFA chief executive "I am speechless at the news of Gary Speed's death.
(5) To provide a luxurious pension was never the aim of the state pension.” When I relay his comments to Dr Ros Altmann, who worked on pensions policy with the No 10 policy unit, is the UK government’s former older workers champion and a governor of the Pensions Policy Institute, she is left briefly speechless.
(6) The cutting of mobile libraries leaves me speechless.
(7) The x-rays, scans, medication, food, cleaning staff, porters that have been given to me because I’m British leave me speechless.
(8) Of course I agreed, but I frequently find myself left speechless when observing countries with the fewest resources revealing some of the best social work practices.
(9) The actress was rendered speechless by the second win – one of the more unexpected of the night.
(10) Five months after head injury, when he was first admitted to us, he was stable with signs of oligokinesia, katatonic posture, speechlessness, rigid muscle tones and positive cog-wheel phenomenon.
(11) Mick Fett, who helped organise the event, said the film had left him speechless.
(12) The patient was observed immediately upon admission to the hospital, and he was noted from the outset to have wakeful speechlessness.
(13) As I look back at all the developments to date, I’m simply speechless,” he said.
(14) BBC host Graham Norton was left speechless by a particularly risque display from Poland's entry Donatan and Cleo.
(15) The speechless patient presents a unique challenge to the clinician working with neurologically impaired adults.
(16) For this laryngectomee, the VoiceBak is truly speech for the speechless.
(17) Tottenham Hotspur’s Dele Alli says he was left “speechless” by his maiden England call-up , just five months after playing in League One.
(18) When it was revealed that she had made it to next week’s final, Birtwhistle said: “I am speechless.
(19) Patients may be rendered speechless because of many conditions, including cancer surgery, stroke, cerebral palsy, cervical cord and head trauma, neuromuscular paralysis, and intubation for respiratory failure.
(20) American Indian sign, used as a gestural communication system for the speechless, served the daily life needs of patients with a variety of deficits, many with unfavorable prognosis for oral speech rehabilitation.