(a.) To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of.
(a.) To escape from; to avoid.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is a man who eschews personal publicity and interviews, prompting him to be once described as Britain's answer to the late Howard Hughes, though his love of a night out proves he is no recluse.
(2) In line with his modest and humble public image, Francis exhibits a strong taste for Italian neorealist cinema, which eschewed Hollywood razzle-dazzle and told morally powerful stories set among the working class.
(3) While each is moving forward to develop strategies and programs suited to its circumstances, all eschew the bunker mentality that comes to mind in tough times.
(4) He sais: This is the key proposal and it eschews the learning from all other governance models outside those of the Plc.
(5) First off, unlike Bob Bradley, Klinsmann has favored a 4-3-2-1 Christmas tree formation that eschews width for possession.
(6) LGBT-friendly cities, hotels, restaurants and clubs: readers’ travel tips Read more Some 60,000 people descend on the spa town of Lisdoonvarna every year in September and October, eschewing dating apps and Match.com for a more traditional, personal approach.
(7) A native Chicagoan and Harvard graduate, Garland excelled in private law but chose to eschew fat salaries for the less lucrative but arguably more exciting world of public criminal prosecutions.
(8) Curettage with examination of curettings or documentation of falling hCG can be used to prevent unnecessary laparoscopies in patients undergoing spontaneous abortions and can make possible definitive diagnosis and medical treatment of EP completely eschewing anesthesia and surgery.
(9) Eschewing the usual political reactions, Mensch issued a press release.
(10) Without legislation to back this up, however, too many will eschew their moral responsibilities.
(11) The current assumption seems to be that the world can have a rising population, ever-higher per capita meat consumption, devote less land to food production to help hit climate change targets and eschew the advances in science that might increase yields.
(12) Secondly, the problems concerning usage of embryologic terms can be easily circumvented by eschewing all embryologic considerations in naming these malformations.
(13) This essay eschews reductionist, dualist, and identity-theory attempts to resolve this problem, and offers an ontology--"monistic dual-aspect interactionism"--for the biopsychosocial model.
(14) Most of Chibana's music eschews the sanshin and other traditional instruments, but his background looms large, he said.
(15) Opinion polls suggest Obama's campaign promise to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan remains popular among the US public, but his last-minute decision to eschew military intervention in Syria and apparent impotence in the face of Russian aggression in Crimea are giving growing ammunition to conservative critics who say US deterrence has lost credibility and will herald a new era of instability in the world.
(16) He could even eschew both sides and sit his party on the crossbenches.
(17) David Alexander, analyst at retail researcher Conlumino, applauded Primark’s strategy of focusing on “one corner of the USA, eschewing prime locations like Manhattan, to ensure that it meets consumer expectations in the States head-on before rolling out nationwide”.
(18) And beautiful Beyoncé tells us that since becoming a mother, she eschews big primping routines, opting for "no make-up, just sunglasses and lip gloss".
(19) It's impossible to imagine, say, a believable political drama coming out this autumn that eschews ferocious use of Twitter; anything scheduled for spring that doesn't foreguess the next big "phone thing".
(20) The film-maker has already signalled he will eschew the CGI-generated environments seen in the unloved prequel series of movies in favour of real sets.
Forfeit
Definition:
(n.) Injury; wrong; mischief.
(n.) A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life.
(n.) Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.
(n.) Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
(n.) To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.
(v. i.) To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
(v. i.) To fail to keep an obligation.
(p. p. / a.) In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
Example Sentences:
(1) She rather fearlessly implied that "women who make lots of money from illicit sex" should forfeit the right to freedom of expression.
(2) Chasing public opinion by way of focus groups and a distorted view of what will translate to electoral success didn’t serve Labour well in the election, where they disastrously forfeited an entire country to the SNP, and many of their cabinet members lost seats.
(3) Roger Kirkby: Best delay ever was the disco demolition at the White Sox game in between a double header, White Sox forfeited the second game 9 - 0 If a team ever did this, but with Bruce Springsteen albums, I would become their biggest fan.
(4) A confirmed Ukip policy is that anyone found to have fought for Islamic State overseas should forfeit their citizenship and not be allowed to return to the UK.
(5) However, while we might be drinking less, the shift in our priorities comes with a forfeit.
(6) Furthermore, all competitive results obtained by the athlete from 29 July 2010 onwards are disqualified, and all related titles, awards, medals, points and appearance money are forfeited.” Cakir-Alptekin won Olympic gold in the 1500m in London, and then took the title at the European Championships in Helsinki later that year.
(7) The work is unpaid and the experience of uncertain value, but failure to complete a placement means forfeiting benefits.
(8) It would also underline that true rehabilitation of offenders requires remorse and repentance as otherwise the punishment has not served it’s underlying purpose; it could be argued that the offender has not really paid the full price for their crime and so forfeits their entitlement to rebuild their life without restriction.
(9) "After reading about John Terry's 'strip penalties' training forfeits at Chelsea (as well as several other clubs' internal motivational techniques) , I wondered if there are any more random examples of club forfeits?"
(10) Saif has forfeited the goodwill and trust he gained over the past five years.
(11) In some of the strongest passages, derided as class war by the Conservatives, he claimed Cameron's record had forfeited the right to be regarded as a one nation prime minister.
(12) Finally, indications are given for the necessity to examine possibilities of curtailing expenditures in the present preventive medical care program, or in some of its branches, without forfeiting the efficiency of the preventive measures.
(13) The risk was that the companies would forfeit their bonds once the mines were finished and leave taxpayers with massive clean-up bills.
(14) The right of return for Palestinian refugees "is sacred to us and we will not forfeit it", he said.
(15) Byers claimed he had persuaded Adonis to have gone easy on National Express after it prematurely forfeited its East Coast mainline franchise.
(16) Reasonable use” sounds … well, reasonable, but a “use it or lose it” clause incentivizes profligate use: if you don’t use your historic water allocation in a beneficial way, you forfeit your water rights, Gray said.
(17) Should pensioners forfeit perks or Labour impose a higher corporation tax?
(18) We politicians forfeited our right to lead this debate – we could have done that next week by voting on the bill, but we chose not to, we chose to put it to the people, so that means we need to find a reasonable set of words that everyone can accept and then we should back off and get out of the way.
(19) But once he forfeits control of Air Force One, Marshall is suddenly disempowered.
(20) They were injured by radical Islamic terrorism, an evil that is at war with the people of America, that is at war with freedom-loving people across the globe.” Repeating a common charge against Obama regarding semantics as much as policy, Cruz added: “We need a commander-in-chief willing to utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ because it is the Islamists who embrace this extreme political and theological philosophy that … will murder or try to forcibly convert anyone that doesn’t share their extreme view of Islam.” Cruz continued: “I call on Congress to pass the Expatriate Terrorist Act, legislation I’ve introduced that says that any American who goes and takes up arms and joins Isis to wage jihad against the United States of America, that by doing so they forfeit their American citizenship.