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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”.

Species


Definition:

  • (n.) Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
  • (n.) A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species.
  • (n.) In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.
  • (n.) A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.
  • (n.) Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
  • (n.) A public spectacle or exhibition.
  • (n.) A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
  • (n.) An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.
  • (n.) The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The variation in thickness of the LLFL may modulate the species causing damage to the cells below it.
  • (2) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
  • (3) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
  • (4) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
  • (5) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
  • (6) The TxA2 antagonistic effects of KW-3635 were compared with that of daltroban in PRP from various animals species.
  • (7) Only the approximately 2.7 kb mRNA species was visualized in Northern blots of total cellular and poly(A+) RNA isolated from cardiac ventricular muscle.
  • (8) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
  • (9) The immunological methods based on the use of a flagellum-specific serum have confirmed the presence of a common flagellum antigen for all Legionella species described to date.
  • (10) This observation not only provides definitive evidence for the photogeneration of O2-, but also indicates that only a fraction of this species is transformed into H2O2 in the absence of SOD.
  • (11) To further characterize the molecular forms of GnRH in each species, the extracts were injected into a high pressure liquid chromatograph (HPLC).
  • (12) Each species has approximately 500 core histones cluster repeats per haploid genome.
  • (13) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
  • (14) Both of these species belong to the serotype B. MCAs T11 and T15, the first recorded with a specificity for only sub-serotype A2 EF, were tested further against 28 sub-serotype A2 and three sub-serotype A2B2EFs from L. tropica strains.
  • (15) The results suggest that involucrin-like proteins have a wider species distribution than originally appreciated.
  • (16) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
  • (17) The genome characterization of the typing strains for all 13 species of the genus Staphylococcus, included into the Approval List of the Names of Bacterial (1980), is presented.
  • (18) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
  • (19) The regional distribution of the receptor showed insignificant species differences.
  • (20) Temelastine produces these species-specific changes by enhancing thyroxine clearance from the circulation in the rat, but not in the dog or mouse.

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