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Grubby


Definition:

  • (a.) Dirty; unclean.
  • (n.) Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We were not in the army," says Sunday Sienda, 21, wearing a grubby Barcelona football shirt.
  • (2) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
  • (3) They say that she didn't work for it but some people say that she fought for it," he said huddled over a small wooden box containing hundreds of grubby looking Liberian notes.
  • (4) If drug cartel kingpin El Chapo stays in Mexico, 'absolutely nothing' will change Read more A joint police and military operation seized Guzmán at a hotel after a battle which left five dead and six captured, including the cartel leader who appeared dazed and grubby in photographs.
  • (5) – rather than on the man’s indecent entitlement, grubbiness and criminality.” 'These women are not statistics' – deaths in Australia in 2015 Read more Surely Lay would cringe, then, at comments made by Victorian homicide squad head, detective inspector Mick Hughes, following the brutal and seemingly random killing of 17-year-old schoolgirl, Masa Vukotic, in broad daylight while she was out walking as part of her usual exercise routine.
  • (6) The BBC should be ashamed of single-handedly doing a racist, fascist party the biggest favour in its grubby history.
  • (7) A chink, the merest pinprick of light, has opened up in the grubby soap opera of Sepp Blatter, Fifa and the future of football.
  • (8) When first confronted by Arab political revolutions, Britain vacillated, reluctant to abandon useful and grubby friendship with corrupt regimes.
  • (9) John McDonnell , the shadow chancellor, said: “The behaviour of the chancellor over the last 11 days calls into question his fitness for office he now holds.” The budget was the result of the “grubby, incompetent manipulations of a political chancellor”, he added.
  • (10) I'm not sure what sort of woman "we" expect to suffer domestic abuse, but those of us who spend too much of our lives reading celebrity autobiographies are not quite as shocked by proof that domestic abuse is not solely "the grubby problem of the inarticulate and poorly educated, who can't eloquently express their frustration, who are not self-aware or emotionally intelligent enough to thrash out their differences via a civilised heart-to-heart, rather than simply with a thrashing".
  • (11) Senator Conroy has opened his account as Labor’s defence spokesman with a grubby and pre meditated slur against one of our most respected 3-star lieutenant general officers, accusing him of a political cover-up no less.
  • (12) The Scottish first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, characterised it as a “grubby, shameless” deal.
  • (13) Two decades on from denationalisation, and with oversight entrusted to technocratic regulators who regard themselves as untouchable as judges, the very idea of grubby politics intervening directly on what businesses charge families for fuel had come to seem unthinkable.
  • (14) McCann approves of a bawdy drinking song recorded by the Hold Steady , and there are grubby cameos from Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and Will Champion of Coldplay.
  • (15) 12.55pm BST Mo Yan's China: 'a world of magic, sexual exploitation, ignorance and senseless violence' In his top 10 books on China , Paul Mason chose Mo's Big Breasts and Wide Hips as his number two, calling it Mo's masterpiece: China's 20th century told symbolically through the story of one man, from birth to maturity; an adult who cannot wean himself from his mother's milk, assailed by wave upon wave of misfortune, poverty, war, imprisonment and finally release into the grubby capitalism of the 1990s.
  • (16) The Trumpian “so” also works similarly in the opposite direction: to intensify negatives without descending to grubby detail.
  • (17) Beyond lies Kamrangir Char, a vast slum where clouds of acrid smoke from burning rubbish hide tenements packed with thin men, anxious women and grubby children with tubercular coughs.
  • (18) Grubby green fingers For small children, the magic of planting a seed and watching it grow (watch out for overzealous waterers) may even trump the CBeebies schedule.
  • (19) It feels grubby to enter such a debate as Aleppo burns, but the revision of history demands a response.
  • (20) There are outliers in the discourse, but asylum seekers are condemned by some as “vermin” and “ like cockroaches ”, or sneered at as “filthy”, “grubby” or “penniless”.

Sculpin


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with sharp spines, and a broad mouth. They are generally mottled with yellow, brown, and black. Several species are found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.
  • (n.) A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa.
  • (n.) The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lura).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Differential growth of the sculpin lateral line system may be related to the feeding behavior of the animal and to differences in the ambient levels of water noise to which larval and adult fish are exposed.
  • (2) Due to an anteroflexion of the longitudinal axis and a disposition of the gonadotropic (GTH) cells at the periphery of the gland and surrounding the neurointermediate lobe (NIL), the classical subdivisions of the teleost adenohypophysis were not strictly applicable to the sculpin.
  • (3) The response of sculpin fibres to stretch during tetanus was similar to that reported for frog twitch fibres.
  • (4) Tested at 20 degrees C, myoglobins from salmon and sculpin bound O2 with lower affinity than myoglobins from the rat or sperm whale.
  • (5) n. is described from one of 33 staghorn sculpin (Leptocottus armatus).
  • (6) Insulin from the principal islets of the teleost fish, Cottus scorpius (daddy sculpin), has been isolated and sequenced.
  • (7) High performance liquid chromatography using PMSS-C18 resin was applied to separate variant-complicated histone H1 from liver of a Baikal lake endemic fish sand sculpin (Cottus Kessleri Dybow).
  • (8) There was significant seasonal variation in metHb levels for three of the five species, the highest values occurring during the winter months; cunners (Tautogolabrus adspersus) 15.6% in winter and 10.1% in the summer, shorthorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius) 20.0% in the winter and 8.19% in the summer, longhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus) 17.3-21.6% in the winter and 8.12% in the summer.
  • (9) Very high infections were found with a maximum of nearly 300 larvae in one sculpin.
  • (10) The percent of higher chlorinated PCB homologues (5 and 6 chlorine atoms per PCB molecule) increased from 54-56% of the total PCB in plankton and M. relicta, to 61% in P. hoyi, to 74% in sculpins.
  • (11) Infections of this magnitude have so far not been reported from sculpins or any other fish species of this size.
  • (12) Pituitary glands from the longhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus) were sectioned transversely into "cephalic" and "caudal" fragments and cultured for 24 hr in medium containing [7-3H]androstenedione.
  • (13) The impairment of renal function after CP administration resulted in increased serum urea in rat, uric acid in pigeon and magnesium in black sculpin.
  • (14) We therefore synthesized sculpin PP and aPY-amide by the solid phase method and investigated their central and peripheral effects on feeding and blood pressure, respectively.
  • (15) Presumably as a result of the amino acid substitutions, sculpin insulin does not readily form crystals containing zinc-insulin hexamers, despite the presence of the coordinating B10 His.
  • (16) The primary structures of three peptides from extracts from the pancreatic islets of the daddy sculpin (Cottus scorpius) and three analogous peptides from the islets of the flounder (Platichthys flesus), two species of teleostean fish, have been determined by automated Edman degradation.
  • (17) The binding characteristics of biliverdin to its carrier protein in the blue-green blood of Clinocottus analis (woolly sculpin) and Anguilla japonica (freshwater eel) were operationally defined by various chemical probing methods and spectra analysis.
  • (18) The amino acid sequences of the peptides suggest that, in the sculpin, prosomatostatin II is cleaved at a dibasic amino acid residue processing site (corresponding to Lys61-Arg62 in anglerfish preprosomatostatin II).
  • (19) Immunostaining of brain and pituitary sections of teleost fishes (eels, salmonidae, cyprinidae, gourami, sculpin, mullet) with anti porcine galanin (GAL) revealed the presence of immunoreactive (ir) perikarya and a rich network of fibers.
  • (20) Two marine species, the long-horned sculpin and the flounder, and three freshwater species, the common goldfish, the mottled sculpin, and the common shiner, were used.

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