(n.) The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; arrogant contempt; brutal impudence.
(n.) Insolent conduct or treatment; insult.
(v. t.) To insult.
Example Sentences:
(1) 50 runners with exertion induced injuries of the lower extremity were provided with appropriate running shoe insoles.
(2) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(3) Subjects used these insoles during dance class for 15 weeks.
(4) Based on clinical and biomechanical peculiarities of foot, in the institute have been developed insertable orthopaedic devices for mass-produced footwear for mentioned pathology: corrective device with unloading element and curative insole.
(5) Young people now may hardly know her, and it is hard today to conjure up the sexiness, the daring, the insolence of some women on screen in the 50s when the Production Code still prevailed.
(6) The author discusses the use of accommodative weight-dispersing insoles as an alternative to surgical excision for the treatment of such lesions.
(7) Controlled rigidity is provided by the incorporation of a spring steel shank between the sponge insole and the hard wearing plastic sole.
(8) I was told it was a contractual requirement, despite there being no mention of either the strike system or the obligation to sell insoles within the contract itself.
(9) Therefore running shoe insoles can eliminate peak forces by exactly placing supporting elements.
(10) Treat with orthotic insoles or look at upping your shoe size.
(11) This paper describes a study of the effectiveness of commercially available shock absorbing insoles when used in four different pairs of shoes during normal walking.
(12) Insoles will be available to turn any existing shoes into smartshoes.
(13) A new method was developed for the quality testing of shoes, insoles and sport shoes.
(14) The purposes of this study were: 1) to compare the impact forces in running using running shoes with conventional insoles to the impact forces using running shoes with four different viscoelastic insoles, 2) to discuss possible effects of the viscoelastic insoles on lower leg kinematics, and 3) to explain the force and kinematic results using a mechanical model.
(15) A full account is given of (a) Wilhelm Werneck's therapeutic coagulations (1835): rupturing of cataract by focussed light (sun, phosphorus); (b) Maximilian Adolf Langenbeck's "insolation" of corneal, pupillary and retinal lesions and of traumatic cataract (1859); (c) Vinzenz Czerny's coagulation experiments on the retina of various animals (1867, 1882).
(16) Vertical foot bearing pressure was decreased by an average of 18% by wearing shoes padded with a Professional Protective Technology insole and the decrease was greater in patients with higher foot pressure.
(17) About a third of dancers fitted with viscoelastic insoles and a tenth of placebo insert wearers found that the insoles made their shoes too tight to be comfortable.
(18) Without physical exercise and direct insolation death usually occurred later (on the average of 5-9 days) from acute renal and renal-hepatic failure.
(19) The mechanism of the static effects of the wedged insole for the medial osteoarthritic knee was studied in ten women.
(20) The most important finding was that an elastic polymer insole with good shock absorbency properties did not prevent stress reactions of bone during a 12-week period of vigorous physical training.
Snobby
Definition:
(a.) Snobbish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sally’s transformation from snobby busybody to the knicker factory’s answer to Hillary Clinton is now complete and she always has one eye on boosting her political profile.
(2) Quite when the word "hipster" stopped denoting muso snobs in peculiar jeans and instead started referring to people who get snobby about coffee beans and beer hops, drink cocktails out of jam jars and dress as though they are pioneers from the outback even though they actually live in Brooklyn or Homerton, I really could not say.
(3) This usually happens for snobby reasons (basically, the mother's name packs more punch).
(4) Trierweiler, too, disliked living in the Elysée, surrounded by “snobby” advisers who “feel themselves very superior” and to whom “betrayal is seen as a virtue”.
(5) Tour guide Inigo from the brilliantly informal Go Local explained that the city is often thought snobby by inhabitants of Bilbao and Victoria, its two big neighbours.
(6) All this nonsense from very snobby Tories that we should not dominate the campaign and I should go on holiday for six months – forget it!
(7) Well handled.” Trump was later to claim that he found the presidential attention flattering, but a follow-up roast by the night’s professional comedian Seth Meyers rankled visibly and arguably set the tone for an 2016 election cycle driven by hatred of a snobby metropolitan elite holding its nose at America.
(8) Part-time professional skateboarder Jon Tolley and DJ Mike Smith became its owners, keen to change the snobbiness that surrounded record store culture – as other local businesses folded around them.
(9) José Ignacio may be low key and discreet, but it's relentlessly and shamelessly snobby.
(10) In that way, I would say that being smart or cynical or knowing or any of the things that I might think about myself in a snobby way and think Victoria Beck- ham isn't - are entirely useless.
(11) "At the time, I was a bit snobby about those kind of shows," he admits.
(12) Another piece of Heseltine folklore is a fabulously snobby comment recorded by the late political diarist Alan Clark: "The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy his own furniture."
(13) I know that sounds snobby – maybe it is – but we've been to university, we've both worked our backsides off, and we're not seeming to get the rewards for it.
(14) The snobby tone of the coverage, in fact, was much like the underlying spirit of the episode itself.
(15) For decades, the famously snobby Baron Michael Jopling lorded it over Westmorland – he was the aristocrat who once dismissed the then deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine, an upwardly mobile commoner, by saying: “The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy all his furniture.” Currently, Rory Stewart, ex-governor of two Iraq provinces, is installed in a cottage in Penrith and the Borders for the Conservatives, and down in the South Lakes the irrepressible Tim Farron, president of the Lib Dems, is putting a brave face on it all.
(16) To call out voters for falling for such damagingly racist and sexist messages is viewed by politicians as a vote-killer and dangerously snobby by the media, as though working-class people are precious toddlers who must be humoured and can’t possibly be held responsible for any flawed thinking.
(17) Therefore his supporters say that all criticism of him comes from a snobby media.
(18) He changed American attitudes – there are those who say he made Americans almost as snobby as the British or Europeans.” McDowell says he does not know if he agrees, “but certainly he has been an immense force”.
(19) Which is why, again – back to X Factor – why there is that slightly manic quality about those kids, and again why I'm sympathetic when people are so snobby about them.
(20) "There wasn't any snobbiness, like: 'That's not a real score.'