(adv.) In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(2) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(4) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
(5) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
(6) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(7) Then the esophagogastric variceal network was thrombosed by means of a catheter introduced during laparotomy, which created a portoazygos disconnection.
(8) The intrauterine mean active pressure (MAP) in the nulliparous group was 1.51 kPa (SD 0.45) in the first stage and 2.71 kPa (SD 0.77) in the second stage.
(9) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
(10) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
(11) The difference in BP between a hospital casual reading and the mean 24 hour ambulatory reading was reduced only by atenolol.
(12) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(13) There were 12 males, 6 females, with mean age of 55.1 yrs (range 39-77 yrs).
(14) Measurement of urinary GGT levels represents a means by which proximal tubular disease in equidae could be diagnosed in its developmental stages.
(15) However, there was no statistically significant difference in mean areas under the LH and FSH curves in the GnRH-treated groups.
(16) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
(17) The mean and median values in the nondiabetic group are higher than in previously published reports.
(18) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(19) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(20) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
Measly
Definition:
(a.) Infected with measles.
(a.) Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.
Example Sentences:
(1) No wonder some older persons are drinking more than the permitted amount, which seems rather measly anyway.
(2) Really I suspect I’d be bored stiff, and anyway, like many people my age, I couldn’t afford it because my pension – combined state and measly private one – is too small.
(3) After shutting out San Francisco, allowing a measly four hits and striking out seven, the free agent to be politely fended off comparisons to Sandy Koufax , who was dramatically summoned from the bullpen by manager Don Mattingly to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
(4) We are the largest per capita emitter of carbon pollution of any developed country and the Turnbull government’s measly reduction targets will keep it that way.” But Frank Jotzo, associate professor at the Australian National University’s Crawford School, said while Australia’s financial contribution could be larger, the move signalled a much more positive approach to the Paris negotiations by the Coalition .
(5) The candleholder, by contrast, produced a ratings drop of a measly three points.
(6) Clearly, the greatest thing on TV right now is Channel 4's Homeland ( Sun, 9pm ), a strong acquisition, currently being fed to the UK in measly weekly ad-filled 45-minute morsels.
(7) The measly amount is not topped up with housing benefit, because that does not exist.
(8) And Labour delivered 63% of its 2015 vote to remain , not that much lower than the Liberal Democrats’ 70%, and way above the Conservatives’ measly 42%.
(9) Average pay among the top tenth of earners has increased by 1.8% over the past year, to £26.75 an hour, while the bottom tenth saw a measly 0.1% rise, to £7.01.
(10) Not that you care, NatWest, but one machine more, and one cashier less, and I'm warning you, I'm taking my account and measly savings elsewhere.
(11) Liverpool’s glaring weakness was in attack last season, where their recognised strikers Daniel Sturridge, Lambert, Balotelli and Fabio Borini produced a measly eight Premier League goals combined.
(12) Paternity leave is paid at a measly £136 a week – £100 less than a full-time job on minimum wage – and the government's recent shared parental leave is so complicated and filled with loopholes that it is expected that only 4% of dads will take it up.
(13) "Over the last year the number of savings accounts that beat inflation for basic rate taxpayers has dropped successively from 91 to a measly five today.
(14) Last year's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 got a measly 25% "rotten" rating on the review aggregator site rottentomatoes.com .
(15) He has left One Direction’s channel , with its measly 10 million subscribers, for dust.
(16) Every conceivable lever has been pulled to get growth going again – interest rates at 0.5%, a budget deficit worth 11% of national output, and £200bn of quantitative easing – yet the economy managed to grow by just a measly 0.2%.
(17) He introduces me to a young Unite activist who works in a Lloyds Bank call centre, and has managed to recruit most of its workforce, as well as take issue with a measly pay offer.
(18) In September 2007, Hayward took over at BP following a "dreadful" quarter: profits had slumped 12%, to a measly $5.3bn.
(19) At this year’s general election, turnout among the over-65s was 78%, as against a measly 43% for 18-24 year olds.
(20) Many had written off the 22-year-old after an injury-disrupted first season at Spurs in which he managed a measly three league starts.