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Natty


Definition:

  • (a.) Neat; tidy; spruce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They come in a range of shapes and sizes, with natty little galvanised versions for the smaller home.
  • (2) The most visible sign of this is the arrival each day, when parliament is in session in its lavish, marble-decked halls in the new capital of Naypyidaw , of scores of officers, natty in their freshly pressed olive drab.
  • (3) Celtic are in their traditional green and white hoops – a friend, she shall remain nameless, once tried to argue that Celtic's jersey was in fact stripes and not hoops – and Shakhter are clocking and rocking a natty orange number.
  • (4) Given his reputation as a tough talking Latin American caudillo, it is rather strange at first to see the Ecuadorean president, Rafael Correa , donning a natty lime green helmet and getting on a bicycle to campaign for re-election.
  • (5) In lieu of these outer garments, here's Bob Stokoe in a natty red number at the 1973 FA Cup final, Sunderland's last successful visit to Wembley.
  • (6) It doesn't help that the natty little waistcoat she is wearing makes her look a bit like the Artful Dodger and that she has tucked her size-three feet under her bottom in the chair, halving her 5ft frame.
  • (7) Further down the line lay the Notting Hill riots of 1958, Joe Harriott at Ronnie Scott's, the Notting Hill street carnival, the Equals singing Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys, the Clash singing Police and Thieves, football fans throwing bananas at black players, black players becoming international captains, Lenny Henry offering to be repatriated to Dudley, Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, the Brixton and Toxteth riots of 1981, Janet Kay trilling Silly Games on Top of the Pops, Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors, the London Community Gospel Choir, the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zephaniah turning down an MBE, pirate radio, natty dread, funki dred, drum'n'bass, dubstep, grime, Dizzie Rascal.
  • (8) • Me t ro: nice pic of the gold iPhone 5S and a natty headline about known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns.
  • (9) Zheng and her friends have natty red sashes and a large banner that says: "Honoured to take part in the election for the people's congress".
  • (10) Luther starts in the UK on Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1 LUTHER: THE SERIES THREE LINEUP John Luther Gruff of voice, red of eye, natty of coat, the maverick DCI is good at solving crime, bad at life.
  • (11) DEPC is known to inhibit the ventilatory response to hypercapnia (E. Nattie.
  • (12) While space in the department may be free of explicit labels, the ebullient and youthful staff are clearly demarcated: female workers wear natty pink T-shirts with the slogan Team Toy on their backs, while men, inevitably, are in blue.
  • (13) With three minutes to go, they equalized through Tevez, playing in natty golfing shoes and cap.
  • (14) Craig doing normcore on the red carpet is a natty move because it gives away very little about the film.
  • (15) In this case, they have mistaken committed performances and some natty dialogue for pure motives on the part of its makers and, by extension, its audience.
  • (16) 64: 161-176, 1986) by a direct effect at the ventrolateral medulla (E. Nattie.
  • (17) Holden was compared to Billy Budd, Natty Bumppo, and Melville's Ishmael.
  • (18) The lyrics are cool – "My hips are ready to glow", "The groovy light will shine all night", etc – and there's a natty stab of Balkan horns at the end of each chorus (even the Spanish have thrown some Eastern influences into their song this year, in the hope of impressing the regional bloc vote).
  • (19) Dressed in natty black outfits with her dark hair pinned back, she cuts a handsome but stern figure.
  • (20) Grab a main at the laid-back Natti’s Thai Kitchen , with Thai goddess Natti cooking up authentic delights, the spicy tom yum is, well yum, just don’t order it hot, or you will cry.

Nitty


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of nits.
  • (a.) Shining; elegant; spruce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet there is a tendency to switch off from this conversation as it moves from ambitious words and statements on to the nitty gritty of implementation.
  • (2) That’s a difficult exercise, particularly with all the lawyers involved in the process and looking at the nitty-gritty of every word that is written down,” Zarif told journalists during a visit to Madrid.
  • (3) "That kind of geographic splitting can certainly create opportunities for speciation, so it's a plausible mechanism, but I'd like to see a more extensive and fine-grained review of the evidence than Mark and his coauthors could cram into their paper – one that gets into the nitty-gritty of where the basins were, when the marine barriers between them would have appeared and disappeared, and what lived in them."
  • (4) • Lord Mandelson, writing in the Guardian , describes the process of shadow cabinet election as "an absurdity", but admits that New Labour had lost out because in government it had been too lazy to organise the grassroots, acting as if the nitty gritty of such work was beneath it.
  • (5) On the nitty-gritty side, one major concern has to be jobs.
  • (6) These are the moments commonly referred to as the "nitty gritty."
  • (7) But in terms of really getting to the nitty-gritty of telling people what impact that money is going to make, that comes a long, long way down.” According to an Ipsos Mori poll 54% of current donors choose to give to charities “that decide what to do based on evidence”, compared to 30% who give to charities whose activities are values--led.
  • (8) Over on Channel 4 Homeland is getting down to the nitty gritty end of its third season, with 1.8 million viewers watching the 10th of 12 episodes.
  • (9) It was a 125-page smorgasbord of vague targets and nitty-gritty measures, from "ensuring the UK remains one of the top destinations for foreign direct investment", to redrafting the little known Outer Space Act to capitalise on the UK's strength in building space vehicles.
  • (10) For Britain, by contrast, this is unprecedented governmental programme transparency, a step forward, real grownup, nitty-gritty stuff.
  • (11) That Frank Nitti - every week confounded by Elliot Ness."
  • (12) The nitty gritty of the merger deal is likely to take considerable management time and effort at a time when ITV cannot afford to take its eye off the battle it has with the BBC and BSkyB.
  • (13) Finance ministers might also succeed in bringing forward the date when capital can be injected into struggling bank, when they hammer out the nitty-gritty of the deal.
  • (14) But when it comes to the nitty-gritty, the brothers are very different.
  • (15) It was as if we felt the nitty gritty of organising at the grassroots was somehow beneath us.
  • (16) They are still behaving as if Old Trafford is a dream destination, somewhere anyone in the managerial world would love to come and have a go, conveniently ignoring the actual nitty gritty of the club's reduced cirmcumstances.
  • (17) The team, which includes researchers in seven countries and three continents, is trying to nail down the nitty-gritty details involved in turning insects into animal feed.
  • (18) It is pretty harsh on countries like South Africa which is doing a good job of protecting lions.” Robin Freeman, at the Zoological Society of London, UK, said: “While looking at things on aggregate is interesting, the real interesting nitty gritty comes in the details.
  • (19) This stuff, the nitty-gritty of governing, is boring; even worse than that is trying to turn political visions into actual laws.
  • (20) "It has not been involved in the nitty-gritty of fighting.

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