(a.) Not liable to sin; exempt from the possibility of doing wrong.
(n.) One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness.
Example Sentences:
(1) So when I tell you that Gibson picked me up in his car from my hotel in Vancouver, so I didn’t even have to get a taxi – and indeed that he was impeccably hospitable and generous over the ensuing 24 hours – you might think: “How awfully convenient that this lifelong hero of Beauman’s, whom he is clearly desperate to be friends with, should happen to be a really nice guy.” Yes, I agree, it is awfully convenient, but sometimes things just turn out that way.
(2) The naval confrontation was the most serious incident between the two navies since 2009, when Chinese ships and planes repeatedly harassed the US ocean surveillance vessel USNS Impeccable in the South China Sea.
(3) Photograph: Fox Searchlight Stylish neckwear The design of The Grand Budapest Hotel is perhaps Anderson’s most ambitious effort yet and, true to impeccable form, the neckwear is not found wanting.
(4) Yet the enemy of the bourgeoisie is impeccably bourgeois, and when I arrived for our meeting at a swanky hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, I found Haneke – just off a flight from Vienna, where he lives – tucking into a luxurious lunch in the restaurant.
(5) 2007 Branson confirms his impeccable timing, selling 125 Megastores – the heirs of his original modest Oxford Street venture – to Zavvi for £1.
(6) But the interesting thing about Ronson is that for all his celebrity friends, his manners are consistently impeccable, whomever he happens to be speaking to.
(7) Villanova head coach Jay Wright said it “was one of the great college basketball games we’ve ever been a part of.” The immaculately tailored and impeccably polite 54-year-old has been in charge of the Wildcats since 2001 and this was his first final.
(8) Alongside ragas played by the pukka sarod player Wajahat Khan and the impeccable santoor player Shivkumar Sharma is a CD by the slightly less acclaimed Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi.
(9) Even the normally impeccable David Silva overhit a pass, which happens about as often as his side lose at home.
(10) Head of Sky News John Ryley said: "Ian's credentials are impeccable.
(11) While the hosts went on to trim a growing deficit to 3-1 with an impeccably directed drive from Darren Fletcher, that simply galvanised City.
(12) This makes possible an impeccable bridge-shaped design for the main part of the dentures, with wide-open inter-implant rincing areas.
(13) Yesterday's government announcements – impeccably trailed, as so often, by the scarily efficient coalition communications strategists – were designed to press the feelgood buttons of Britain's rail commuters.
(14) "While Ryan has impeccable character and no previous history, unfortunately, because of the process we have to maintain confidentiality and are not able to discuss it any further, but we are confident that he will ultimately be exonerated," he said.
(15) But for me, Mad Men reigns because it's done all of this work so impeccably that it almost doesn't matter where this final season goes.
(16) Bac Sierra, in an impeccable suit and tie, was right behind them every day, in the first of three rows of benches usually full of friends and supporters.
(17) Not for one second did he behave with anything other than impeccable manners, humour and grace and a desire to collaborate on an entirely even playing field.
(18) Despite an impeccable track record as an economist and policymaker, Summers remains widely associated with the period of laissez-faire economic policy-making that led up to the banking crash and his decision to step aside on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the crisis shows how raw the politics remain in Washington.
(19) Her journalistic credentials are impeccable; a degree in Modern Languages from Oxford, followed by a spell as a Panorama researcher, then as a reporter on Newsnight, before graduating to the studio.
(20) But there is one American whose green credentials are often seen as impeccable - Al Gore.
Layman
Definition:
(n.) One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.
(n.) A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).
Example Sentences:
(1) With the aid of 25 medical terms familiar to a layman, basic medical knowledge of the patient was tested.
(2) When he went on to begin a sentence with the words, "In my layman's understanding ... " Nel pounced and said: "You see, Mr Dixon, now you call yourself a layman."
(3) Quantum pioneer: Paul Dirac Moreover, there is a feeling, hard to convey to the layman but shared by many experienced theorists, that these ideas all hang together.
(4) An article written for the layman presents information on oral contraception, the IUD, the vaginal diaphragm, the condom, and foam.
(5) To some extent, a real effort must be made to educate the professional as well as the layman to face the diagnosis of cancer without evasion and go forward from there.
(6) Only in one-quarter was it very conspicuous even to the layman.
(7) If nothing else, this layman's take on society's ills reminds us that politics is not theirs – it's ours.
(8) The study of Lichtenstein, Slovic, Fischhoff, Layman, and Combs reports several types of errors in subjects' frequency judgments of lethal events.
(9) Being a layman, all I had to go by was the height – between four and a half and five feet tall.
(10) For the novice and layman such a question opens usually Pandora's box of reply.
(11) A knowledge of the layman's illness concepts is of value both for diagnosis and therapy in the practical application of the medical services.
(12) Even a layman can tell what made Albert Einstein famous as a scientist.
(13) To investigate the layman's knowledge, perception and attitudes regarding normal body temperature, fever, infections and the effect of penicillin on virus infections a representative sample of the Norwegian population (619 women and 592 men over the age of 15) was interviewed in 1988 as part of a monthly national opinion poll.
(14) A 31-year-old male has been "bulls-eyed" by a car and we're in the air ambulance, flying out from the Royal London hospital to a suburban street, where the man lies in a twisted, bloodied heap with his feet pointing in what even a layman would identify as the wrong direction.
(15) Photograph: Getty The layman's term for this sort of offer is: a joke.
(16) In addition, they were questioned about therapeutic wishes if primary resuscitation with ventilation and cardiac massage were administered by a layman.
(17) The surgeon uses elementary mathematics just as much as any other educated layman.
(18) The imminent availability of inexpensive ultrasonic scanners for the layman is a worrying prospect to which the medical profession should now try to develop a prudent response.
(19) In order for a patient to give an informed consent for a procedure, he or she needs to understand the risks, benefits and consequences of the procedure explained in layman's terms.
(20) He later added: "As a layman I would now say I think we have it" – meaning the Higgs.