(n.) One who interlopes; one who interlopes; one who unlawfully intrudes upon a property, a station, or an office; one who interferes wrongfully or officiously.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Experiment 1, the definitions that Jones used with phonological interlopers created more TOTs even when no interlopers were presented.
(2) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(3) They reported that interlopers that were phonologically related to the target word increased the incidence of TOTs and concluded that this supported Woodworth's position.
(4) Like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida in Iraq's previous violent emir, they are opportunistic interlopers whose vision is shared by the smallest of minorities.
(5) At one point the governor was interrupted by an interloper who began shouting a half-audible protest about the need to protect American workers.
(6) Hundreds of yellow shirts, and perhaps 10 or 20 curious interlopers from Islington.
(7) Woodworth (1929) argued that these interloper words both cause and sustain TOT states, whereas Brown and McNeill (1966) suggested that they are part of the process that leads to TOT resolution.
(8) Second, more TOT states occurred when the interloper was presented at the actual time of retrieval than when it was presented earlier.
(9) That particular prayer, it seems to me, an interloper that morning, sitting at the back, might be best addressed to the offices of the Equal Justice Initiative just down the road.
(10) When you dehumanise migrants, using vile imagery and language, scapegoating them for a nation’s ills and targeting them as job-stealing interlopers, you stoke prejudice and foment hatred.
(11) The subjects, 300 male and female junior college students, read vignettes which placed them at a party where their mates passionately kissed interlopers of varying status, and whose transgressions were, or were not, observed by others.
(12) Hundreds of furry little bodies ambled among us, looking curiously at the human interlopers.
(13) Harry Truman’s daughter Margaret, who wrote about the incident in her book The President’s House, a history of the White House, said: “Instead of brandishing a weapon, however, the interloper asked for the president’s autograph.” FDR gave the young man his autograph and the embarrassed secret service agents – whom the young man had to pass to enter the private area of the mansion – escorted him out of the building.
(14) Sorrell has become one of the best known businessmen in Britain but has never been able to shake off his own industry's view that he is something of an interloper: the Harvard-trained financier who ran roughshod over advertising.
(15) ‘I’m still for him’: Trump fans undaunted by string of campaign blunders Read more Attending a Serbian cultural festival over the weekend, he told the Washington Post: “Wisconsin Republicans are good at sniffing out interlopers.
(16) It could have been much worse than that, both for the interloper and for one of the drivers.
(17) It is clear that Mike Kane, a former teacher running for Labour, does not think political interlopers have much of a chance.
(18) Two opposite roles have been suggested for these interlopers.
(19) A study is reported in which participants were explicitly presented with interloper words.
(20) Reports don't sit on report-laden desks and outside professionals or agencies aren't treated as interlopers, but welcomed as partners.
Querulous
Definition:
(v.) Given to quarreling; quarrelsome.
(v.) Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people.
(v.) Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shortly after I tested positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation that puts women at a dramatically increased risk for breast and ovarian cancers, I landed in my breast oncologist’s office, querulously requesting a last-minute mammogram.
(2) Improvement rates for global symptoms were more than 80% for emotional incontinence and prejudice or querulous attitudes toward the nurses, and in headache, tinnitus and dizziness among the subjective symptoms.
(3) The differences are established in the manifestations and course of litigious-paranoid disorders of psychogenic personality-related origin and nonpathological querulousness.
(4) She was a querulous and bad-tempered country woman who was required to admire the hub of empire from the dispiriting vantage of a house in Lavender Gardens, at the top of Battersea Rise.
(5) Other qualities attached to extremism are less evident: you’d expect the hard Brexiters to be taking delight in their own victory, where instead there is only a querulous obsession with naysayers.
(6) There is a significant attempt on to try and drag the prime minister back to a posture where the government is more than just the querulous articulations of its base.
(7) Such querulous, opinionated persons are obstinate "bellyachers" who "stick to their guns" and imaginary legal positions to the extent of being a general nuisance.
(8) An excessive intensity and length of querulousness, as related to the objective value of the psychogenesis, the more pronounced trend to litigiousness manifestations, progressive loss of their relation to situational cues, aggressive traits in behavior, are all characteristic of litigious-paranoid disorders.
(9) It will also point up errors introduced by the patient, omissions, and distortions in offering the subjective data which the physician must evaluate.SEVEN MAJOR PERSONALITY TYPES AND APPROPRIATE PHYSICIAN RESPONSES ARE OUTLINED: the dependent demanding oral patient, the orderly controlled obsessive, the dramatic seductive hysteric, the long-suffering masochist, the querulous paranoid, the overbearing narcissist and the aloof withdrawn schizoid.The non-psychiatrist can resolve complex and puzzling medical problems if he has an increased awareness of how emotional forces complicate illness and if he can exploit comprehensive history taking to the full.
(10) A study of a group of schizoprenic patients (74 cases) made it possible to distinguish 6 variants of postprocess pathological personality (hypochondric, asthenical, development with querulous reactions, of a protracted reaction type, withdrawal from contacts, reaction of an animation type, reactions of protests).
(11) Before bringing Hunt on air, Jones told his audience he had agreed with the environment minister that the exchange would be a “querulous interview … not an acrimonious exchange”.
(12) Pathologic litigiousness is characterized by a larger constitution-personality predisposition, lesser situational dependence and possibility of psychopathologic classification of querulous manifestations.
(13) In Germany and in Scandinavia, a diagnosis of querulent paranoia may be made, although this interesting and uncommon syndrome is rarely recognised in the UK.
(14) None of those films did well, and Hepburn sometimes seemed stilted or querulous.
(15) Both men's aides insisted the show of unity around economic policy was designed to tell the country and their own querulous backbenchers that they would not change course.
(16) These and other features of litigious-paranoid disorders can be used as differential diagnostic factors in differentiating between pathologic and nonpathologic querulousness.
(17) This idea flows into the stagnant pool of Tory gesture politics – one part state-aggrandising, one part telling the people, but only the particular, mean-minded, fearful, querulous people of your own devising, that you’re on their side.
(18) In addition, Germany, which would need to support a stronger line, will not be keen in election year to pick a fight with a querulous neighbour.
(19) • Con Coughlin in the Telegraph says the English "are paying too high a price for keeping a few querulous Scots on side".
(20) Hunt declared he would make environmental history during an interview with Alan Jones on Sydney radio on Thursday, a conversation the broadcaster characterised on air as “querulous but not acrimonious”.