What's the difference between eugenic and stultify?
Eugenic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cloves; as, eugenic acid.
(a.) Well-born; of high birth.
Example Sentences:
(1) I’ve known them for over 10 years,” said Eugene Ward, 43, clutching a bag of water bottles and beer cans.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Baltimore Ravens NFL player Eugene Monroe.
(3) A gritty town battered by the decline of its lumber industry, it is mocked as hicksville by its rival, snootier neighbour, the university city Eugene, which Groening renamed Shelbyville.
(4) It is paradoxically concluded that those same social forces which helped bring about the birth of differential psychology and the entailing eugenics ideology prevented the latter from being accepted and implemented.
(5) Using 194 men representing 62 male homosexual couples and 81 heterosexual couples, three hypotheses were analyzed: (1) that jealousy measured by a standard attitude measure, the semantic differential technique, will significantly positively correlate with scores on a standard jealousy measure, Eugene Mathes' Interpersonal Jealousy Scale; (2) that men in heterosexual couples will have higher levels of sexual jealousy than men in homosexual couples; and (3) that sexual jealousy is inversely correlated with self-actualization personality.
(6) After my jaw was broken, I told Eugene I wanted to be part of the film.
(7) This is in stark comparison to the gruesome, vicious suffering that he inflicted on his two victims – and the lifetime of suffering he has caused their family.” Wood was executed for shooting to death Debra Dietz, his former girlfriend, and her father, Eugene Dietz, in Tucson in 1989.
(8) In that respect, the "I can't help myself" narratives become as unhelpful as gay cure narratives; indeed, they become the basis of gay cure "hopes", only this time based on eugenics rather than pseudo-psychiatry.
(9) It is essential, then, in order to lessen the tendency toward neurosis, that such women be treated with compassion, competence, patience and psychiatric care, and that they be made fully aware of surgical procedures and its consequences, as well as the advantages of eugenics.
(10) Nazi physicians under Hitler so discredited eugenics that no one dares speak of it openly any longer.
(11) Free resources on Guardian Teacher Network Some top tips for NQTs from positive behaviour specialist Paul Dix More top tips from NQT mentor Eugene Spiers Time-saving device – the Plenary Producer This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional .
(12) In part of her most important work, "Pivot of Civilization," Sanger's dissent from eugenics was made clear.
(13) "This investigation confirms the reality of eugenics in modern British medicine, in which some innocent human beings are deemed too inconvenient to be allowed to live," he said.
(14) "A prenatal test that is used to make a decision to terminate a pregnancy could effectively be a form of eugenics.
(15) Much has been written about the unusual but not unprecedented way in which Eugene was awarded the 2021 World Championships.
(16) Eugene Jaffe • Montana River Trust; Salford Capital Partners Inc • The BVI entity Salford, with disguised ownership, managed £750m of investments in Georgia and Serbia for the Georgian oligarch Badri Patarkatsishvili.
(17) There are highlights, among them the Foo Fighters' energising effect on a flagging audience, the noise the same audience makes when James Blunt appears - half cheer, half menacing low growl - and Madonna's unexpected duet with Eugene Hutz of thrillingly dissolute gypsy punks Gogol Bordello.
(18) During the next three decades, Lysenkoists regularly invoked the Soviet eugenic legacy to claim that genetics itself was fascist.
(19) Indeed, his 1914 satire on the fashion for eugenic family planning ( The White Hope ) was oddly prescient.
(20) In Germany under the Nazis, a movement for eugenics, or "racial hygiene," led to the sterilization and, later, the elimination of people with particular mental or physical disabilities.
Stultify
Definition:
(v. t.) To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.
(v. t.) To regard as a fool, or as foolish.
(v. t.) To allege or prove to be of unsound mind, so that the performance of some act may be avoided.
Example Sentences:
(1) The loud ties, hideous jumpers, bottles of Drambuie, dubious perfumes and aftershaves, second copies of DVDs, panettones and stultifying board games are all an extension of that.
(2) Their 'hipster' children who have only ever lived through the era of neo-con politics find these environments stultifying and conventional and long for something more edgy, urban and cool-'authentic' places where poor folk live, that make them feel daring and adventurous.
(3) His first novel, Five Point Someone , adopted a breezy, ironic tone to explore the lives of the exam-oppressed students who cram to get into the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi and then rebel against the stultifying atmosphere of academic competition.
(4) We are social animals, surely, and, though lives may have been relatively mundane (for which sometimes read stultifying) back pre-70s, when we traditionally met, within the same postal district, the ever-same dysfunctional relatives three nights a week to… fold knitted paper or imitate the cry of the ibis or some such, at least someone would have been able to tell when you'd had a stroke.
(5) They created their own fashion, a reaction to the stultified West End theatre.
(6) "If Cliff Thorburn was in his stultifying pomp now, would he still be known as 'The Grinder', or as 'The Matchplayer'?"
(7) In the end, writing about what you know – that hoary and potentially limiting, even stultifying piece of advice – might be best seen as applying to the type of story you're thinking of writing rather than to the details of what happens within it and perhaps, with that in mind, a better precept might be to write about what you love, rather than what you have a degree of contempt for but will deign to lower yourself to, just to show the rest of us how it's done.
(8) I don't think it will work, even though there are older people who would prefer Britain to return to the emotionally stultifying era of their youth.
(9) Many are fearful though of that consensus and its potentially stultifying consequences.
(10) That would have the effect of stultifying attempts to operate a range of schemes to meet particular needs."
(11) China's film industry, while growing, is burdened by a stultifying bureaucracy and draconian censorship.
(12) Today, it's hard to imagine the jolt these records must have delivered to a teenage audience stultified by what was previously on offer: their impact has been dulled by 50 years of ubiquity.
(13) The reason is the feeling in jazz that if you print something, if you write down the notes, you will stultify the music.
(14) "Look at all the kites," I said as we passed Chaoyang park, even though my heart sank at the tatty buildings, endless construction sites and stultifying haze.
(15) In our own society recent reorientation towards a traditional type fatalism and a de-emphasis on the Puritan work ethic reflects a marked value shift which may stultify many, much as it fosters increased individualization among others.
(16) Of course, this is stultifyingly obvious in some respects: if you don't want your children to be influenced by advertising, don't let them watch hours of ads.
(17) Spain has travelled light years since Franco died, ending 40 years of stultifying dictatorship.
(18) Even from a pragmatic standpoint, consider which scenario is more likely: that a famous, powerful man – raised in a world where women are characterised as passive, decorative “rewards” for male success – used his position to groom vulnerable young women in the same way that countless men have done before him; or that 15 complete strangers randomly crossed paths and decided to concoct a conspiracy to frame a universally loved actor for rape, knowing that it would result in years of intrusive investigations, stultifying bureaucracy and brutal character assassinations?
(19) It's a wonderful, liberating break from that infantile, stultifying convention.
(20) Similarly, by sentencing the Palestinian child to life in a small, stultified village with no means for development, the plan keeps the child from being aware of all the opportunities available to any other person.