(n.) Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another.
Example Sentences:
(1) He admitted, however, that he had not been able to find any record of this incident on the police computer and Mr Justice Riddle said that the evidence was "third-hand, anonymous hearsay".
(2) Wang admitted basing his report “on hearsay and his own subjective guesses without conducting due verifications”, Xinhua added.
(3) The symptom of penis captivus during sexual intercourse has had a largely hearsay existence in medical history, and rumour has embellished the drama of its occurrence.
(4) Hearsay and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
(5) "It turns out Mr Lewis's account contradicts the hearsay evidence attributed to Det Sgt Maberly.
(6) Questionnaires regarding experience, hearsay, and perceptions of anxiety toward eight dental treatments were distributed to a general patient population.
(7) On the role of the Boston College-Belfast Project tapes, he says: "The allegation of conspiracy in the killing of Mrs McConville is based almost exclusively on hearsay from unnamed alleged Boston College interviewees but mainly from the late Dolours Price [an IRA Old Bailey bomber] and Brendan Hughes [a Belfast IRA commanding officer].
(8) But a senior western diplomat dismissed this as hearsay, arguing that the Sudanese government's desire to strengthen ties with Cairo made them unlikely to side against Egypt on Libya .
(9) The internet will become constructed entirely of two different sorts of untruth: contemporaneous unalloyed praise and posthumous defamatory hearsay.
(10) The reason, again according to hearsay, was that he dozed off during one of Kim’s speeches.
(11) He said: "In the report, statements are made and inferences drawn on condition of anonymity and hearsay.
(12) Stuart-Smith concluded there was no cover-up, because the changes mostly involved removing comment and hearsay, although he did criticise some deletions of fact.
(13) But the home secretary cannot intervene on the basis of suspicion, rumour or hearsay.” May said the home affairs committee was also told that the concerns raised in April were confidential and they were treated as such.
(14) If one was to disavow common sense, history, evidence and truth, and, instead, rely purely on hysteria and hearsay created out of conjecture, then perhaps superficial appearances do conclusively prove Obama is a Muslim.
(15) There is reason to think, however, that all his evidence is hearsay, and that he himself never witnessed an act of cannibalism.
(16) We knew there were technical challenges but it was all hearsay.
(17) Does stating facts based on several independent levels of input and not on a few bits of non-expert hearsay endanger the reef-based tourism industry?
(18) But in a 11,750-word statement published on the Nike Oregon Project website he finally tackled the allegations which he said had left “innocent athletes’ careers tarnished with nothing but innuendo, hearsay and rumour”.
(19) It truly goes without saying.” He added : ... even if substituting a ministerial opinion based on untested hearsay and intelligence for the verdict of a jury were within the powers of parliament, should we do so as a matter of tradition and decency?
(20) The statements made in the letter regarding arbitrary arrests, torture and disappearances completely distorted the situation on the ground, and constitute generalisations based on hearsay and intentional distortions by those striving to regain a foothold in Egypt after being rejected by the people.
Inadmissible
Definition:
(a.) Not admissible; not proper to be admitted, allowed, or received; as, inadmissible testimony; an inadmissible proposition, or explanation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experimental subjects produced the phonologically inadmissible [3a], [u'mI], [vepsilon], and control subjects produced the phonologically allowable [d3a], [u'mî], [veI].
(2) Also ruled inadmissible was the account of a former chambermaid from the Holiday Inn in Leicester, who came forward during his trial with evidence to say she had discovered him in the bath with a girl she believed, but couldn’t be sure, was about 12.
(3) A constant is added to all mean values to preclude the mathematically-inadmissible form of log 0.
(4) Dixon is on a life licence for his past serious convictions, which the jury was not told about as they were ruled inadmissible before the trial.
(5) It meant that the sort of evidence that was inadmissible at the trial relating to Clinton’s death would now be admissible in future trials.
(6) Characterising it as a ground of "inadmissibility based on the merits", the guide stresses that the use of the term "manifestly" may cause confusion: if taken literally, it might be understood to mean an application will only be declared inadmissible on this ground if it is immediately obvious to the average reader that it is far-fetched and lacks foundation.
(7) It was shown that suture of the vessel defect under conditions of a purulent wound was inadmissible, since recurrent bleedings are inevitable and often followed by lethal outcomes.
(8) There have been inadmissible attempts to abandon the Kyoto protocol.
(9) This spring, there was an outbreak of excitement when Putin criticised support for Nato air strikes on Libya as "a medieval call for the Crusades" and Medvedev responded quickly in televised comments, saying it was "inadmissible to use expressions like the Crusades that, in essence, can lead to a clash of civilisations".
(10) I read with interest some observations after Adam's post, suggesting that the "manifestly ill founded" inadmissibility criterion is a low-hanging legal hurdle, connoting "bare arguability".
(11) "Given the importance of their information to the future of Northern Ireland, the body will therefore be empowered by law to offer 'inadmissibility' or 'limited immunity' in both civil and criminal courts to those providing information in connection with the incidents described.
(12) "It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary film-makers, is used by police to apprehend him," it adds.
(13) The ECHR's annual statistics also show that nearly 99.9% of the 1,652 UK cases brought to the court in 2013 were declared inadmissible or struck out.
(14) Correction of increased systolic pressure and high cardiac output after the operation is inadmissible because they are favourable responses of the organism to the operative trauma.
(15) It’s inadmissible,” Arnaud Pacot of the CGT union in the Aube region of eastern France told BFM TV from a nuclear plant being blocked by activists.
(16) • The Paralympian has also accused the prosecution of trying to use inadmissible evidence for the “assassination of my character” and said that suggestions he deliberately killed Steenkamp “could not be further from the truth”.
(17) The US State Department has received more than 11,000 resettlement applications from Syrian refugees in recent months Greene said the strict inadmissibility bar in effect ignored the realities of living in a war-torn country, especially for Syrians in rebel-controlled areas where interactions with armed groups were unavoidable.
(18) The results show that rigid adaptation of therapy to the mean values found is inadmissible.
(19) The volume flow, actually effective for the grain fraction's separation of the airborne dust into certain parts of coarse dust and lung damaging fine dust in the dust precipitator's first stage may be inadmissibly different from the nominal flow.
(20) A high percentage of the taken samples had to be confiscated because of the detection of pathogenic and facultative pathogenic germs being microbiologically inadmissible contaminants.