(a.) Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.
(a.) Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy.
(a.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
(2) I asked if that would not make life easier, since it removed any issue of the author's infallibility?
(3) And yet many newspapers do persist in pretending they are largely infallible."
(4) The bleeding time is not an infallible indication of aspirin or other non steroidal antiinflammatory drugs platelet defect.
(5) Although these criteria are helpful in most instances, they are not infallible.
(6) Countless Americans believe in a purity and infallibility of our right to bear arms, and therefore are quick to find fault with those who misuse the right.
(7) However, these physiologic measurements are not infallible; their accuracy is largely dependent on the careful set-up and use of the measuring instruments.
(8) Testing hearing in baby clinics was easy to implement and economical but not infallible.
(9) The electrocardiogram was invaluable, though by no means infallible.
(10) Current imaging techniques are not infallible and cannot confer an absolute sense of security when seeming to indicate a nonextruded protruding disk.
(11) The results suggest that, although far from infallible, CA 125 is a useful marker for ovarian cancer.
(12) People have come to believe that doctors should never make mistakes and courts have reinforced this absurd requirement of infallibility by punishing breaches with settlements way out of proportion to actual damages".
(13) We conclude that a long acting glucocorticoid is useful in the management of menstrual abnormalities in adolescent patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia who have attained their adult height, and that monitoring the concentration of serum T in them is a valuable but not infallible procedure for assessing the effectiveness of therapy.
(14) He continued to write about art, but related it more closely to his personal experience, and though he never ceased to believe in the perfectibility of society, he edged towards an understanding of Marxism as an analytical tool rather than an infallible cure for the ills of the world.
(15) And yet many newspapers do persist in pretending they are largely infallible.
(16) He has a vast and devoted following of people who do not question his infallibility.
(17) Our knowledge of the wrist is incomplete, and our diagnostic tools are not infallible, but we must continue to try to sort out these difficult wrist problems.
(18) Although there is no infallible method of avoiding interpretive errors it is suggested that the development of good viewing habits, including an orderly and systematic appraisal of each film, coupled with a physiologically oriented approach to film interpretation will reduce mistakes significantly.
(19) Even then, it was obvious that Facetti had a prodigious knowledge of art history and an infallible instinct for the way a single image might capture the essence of a book.
(20) The first is that King and Trichet, eminent though they may be, are not infallible.
Obsequious
Definition:
(a.) Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
(a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.
(a.) Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labour too had "sort of fallen to their knees obsequiously towards very powerful vested interests in the media", he said.
(2) Families of China's 'disappeared' say country is a place of fear and panic Read more “It is so obsequious, it is just nauseating,” said Howie.
(3) This week I saw a hilarious clip of Trump beckoning Farage out of a crowd – a bit like Courteney Cox in the Dancing in the Dark video – and Farage telling him obsequiously he was “handing over the mantle”.
(4) In a piece for Salon , Greenwald said the blog’s favorable – “obsequious” was the word he used – coverage of justices was a way for Goldstein to curry favor for when he would argue before the court.
(5) They're still queuing up to take a bow, albeit less obsequiously than before.
(6) After King Phil repaid Labour for its obsequiousness by publicly backing the Tories in 2010, the new PM asked him to review government spending and procurement.
(7) Not for him the tiny calibrations of the text or the obsequious notes to his masters.
(8) There are people who have been absolute shits for the last 20 years who have suddenly become embarrassingly friendly and obsequious.
(9) And in the middle of it were the two Matthews, obsequiously yucking it up like a grotesque Fluck and Law parody of the coddled one-percent.
(10) The minister’s article reads like an obsequious sales pitch, but in that sense it is fairly consistent with the UK government’s approach to the Gulf states.
(11) Observing this process through the prism of private equity, there is a certain obsequiousness on behalf of politicians behind closed doors.
(12) First, nobly casting aside obsequious talk of titles following his recent appointment as president of the Queen's Bench Division, Leveson willingly confirmed that he was his old self: "I was always Brian Leveson."
(13) For a decade Britain has been obsequious towards China .
(14) Thus the same administration that resisted judicial disclosure pursuant to transparency laws leaked bits and pieces about the mission (always favorable to the president) to their favorite media message-carriers ; secretly met with and shoveled information to big Hollywood filmmakers planning a pre-election release of a film about the Bin Laden raid (now pushed back until December in the wake of the ensuing controversy, though the already-released film trailer – see below – will soon be inundating the nation); and then sat down with one of America's most obsequious, military-revering news anchors for an hour-long prime-time special that spoke of the raid with predictable awe but asked none of the hard questions about these lingering issues.
(15) Obsequiousness tends not to make good pictures of politicians – unless you happen to be Thomas Gainsborough or George Romney – and in a sense photographers are that unusual thing for them, a person just getting on with doing their job just as they might with anybody else.
(16) The all-too-familiar axis that has enabled massive civil liberties assaults by the Obama administration - blindly partisan progressive media outlets and particularly obsequious self-styled neutral journalists - instantly sprung into action here and wasted no time jumping to the defense of the US government.
(17) Most people, let alone journalists, would be far too embarrassed to admit they harbor such subservient, obsequious sentiments.
(18) That same article quoted the supremely obsequious former Obama adviser Harold Koh as hailing torture advocate and serial deceiver John Brennan as "a person of genuine moral rectitude" who ensures that the "kill list" is accompanied by moral struggle: "It's as though you had a priest with extremely strong moral values who was suddenly charged with leading a war," Koh said.
(19) Here's the White House list of who's meeting with the president: • Ajay Banga, MasterCard • Steve Bennett, Symantec • Wes Bush, Northrop Grumman • Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin • Renee James, Intel • Brian Moynihan, Bank of America • Joe Rigby, Pepco Holdings • Charlie Scharf, Visa 3.31pm GMT With exceptions , congressional interrogation of intelligence officials in hearings since the Snowden revelations in June has been obsequious conspiratorial deeply collegial .
(20) Tyranny becomes docile and subservient, and a soft totalitarianism prevails, as obsequious as a wine waiter.