(a.) Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery; as, a mettlesome horse.
Example Sentences:
Stuffy
Definition:
(a.) Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
(a.) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
(a.) Ill-ventilated; close.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8 complained of mild and transient nasal stuffiness and only 1 child had a rise in temperature (37.8 degrees C).
(2) In a double-blind study, diphenylpyraline (Lergobine) was given to 63 patients whose main symptoms were stuffiness of the nose, increased secretion of mucus, snuffling, sneezing and redness of the eyes.
(3) The symptoms evaluated included nasal stuffiness, dry mouth, nausea, fatigue, headache, and feelings of disorientation or depression.
(4) "I can't be doing with this stuffiness about only reading classics," she said in her acceptance speech, recalling how one of her teachers had called comics "rubbish".
(5) When Nicolas Sarkozy held his first comeback rally, he sweated profusely on a small stage in a stuffy and spartan gymnasium in the south of France.
(6) The sight of stuffy, bespectacled greying men berating films aimed primarily at teenage girls is as farcical as it is depressing.
(7) Symptom scores for sneezing, stuffy nose, and nasal secretion all decreased dramatically from baseline when budesonide treatment was started.
(8) He added: "The cry has gone up 'bring back the Dimblebys' – but imagine if it had, and the cries of 'stuffy coverage'.
(9) Revolving chairs, stuffy offices, dry as dust reports, blueprints one day and the next – with the help of a broken-down motor car and a few gallons of petrol – marching men with sweat-stained faces and shining eyes, horses straining and plunging at the guns, little clay-pits opening beneath each step, and piles of bloody clothes and leggings outside the canvas door of a field hospital.
(10) Three patients felt infraclavicular pressure; 1 had a brief sensation of breathlessness; 3 had nasal stuffiness from Horner's syndrome associated with the block; none developed headache, back pain, or paresthesias; and 3 had postoperative nausea.
(11) They’re betting that it’s a new country now, one ready to embrace a man who won’t play by all the stuffy old rules, who won’t do up his top button or bend the knee.
(12) Patients in the BDA group had significantly less (P less than 0.05) sneezing, rhinorrhea and nasal stuffiness at 36 days, cough at 10 days and antihistamine consumption at 17 days.
(13) Untoward effects experienced in volunteers receiving BW 942C included heaviness in the limbs, nasal stuffiness, mouth dryness, facial flushing, skin rash, and prickling sensations.
(14) Meanwhile Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves which has proved a hit with our booksellers and customers, will no doubt be hailed as a breath of fresh air – a highly readable answer to any accusations of stuffiness or impenetrability which are so often levelled against literary prizes."
(15) A stuffy and running nose are two of the most expressed symptoms of acute rhinosinusitis and have made the use of decongestants very common.
(16) Prevalences of "phlegm in winter," "nasal stuffiness or discharge in winter," and "irritation of eye and throat mucous membranes" were significantly higher in the PF workers.
(17) We report on a rhinomanometric assessment of eleven patients undergoing antroconchopexy for relief of a "stuffy" nose.
(18) The flunisolide group showed statistically greater improvement than the placebo group in such symptoms as the duration of sneezing, stuffy nose, runny nose and nose blowing.
(19) The elderly have a generalized decrease in body water content of 7%, and with the degeneration of mucus-secreting cells, the effectiveness of the mucociliary system is reduced with frequent symptoms of nasal stuffiness.
(20) Nasal provocation was assessed by clinical score, graded 0-12, to include rhinomanometry, secretions (mL), sneezes, and stuffy nose.