(n.) Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.
(n.) In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate.
(v. t. & i.) To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather, it's how women in authority – or, specifically, female bosses – are discussed, because English is incapable of dealing with this crazy female phenomenon, as demonstrated by the palaver following the sacking last week of Jill Abramson as the executive editor of the New York Times.
(2) Let's not listen to this palaver about health, it's all about revenue," the opposition leader, Tony Abbott, told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday morning.
(3) The wise referee tells the players not to make a palaver of it and get on with the game.
(4) 4.57pm BST Now, at last, the pre-match palaver appears to have ground to an end: the players take up their positions in anticipation of kick-off ...
(5) Fielding was carrying a telly downstairs last week, on a sunny day in his shorts and bare feet, and because he was feeling a bit casual and chilled out, he forgot the usual palaver when picking things up: bending your knees, considering your posture and not leaning over to lift a heavy weight, and then "Crack!"
(6) PANA'S PENALTY PALAVER "While trawling through the rsssf.com archive at work I found a curious result from a first-round tie between CSKA Sofia and Panathinaikos in the 1972-73 European Cup," said Ciaran McLoughlin.
(7) "I often think that if all this movie palaver fails and I never get to make a film again, I know that I can always do theatre," he says.
(8) And for the utility company, the meter has significant benefits, such as being able remotely to disconnect consumers’ supply if they don’t pay the bill, instead of going to all the legal and logistical palaver currently involved in cutting off a subscriber.
(9) Of course, Pete's palaver was more down to the fact that his celebrations were conducted in a midtown brothel, at exactly the same time as Trudie's dad was paying for sex there too.
Unnecessary
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(2) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(3) This may result in the unnecessary implementation of antidotal therapy.
(4) Thus, the enzyme-immunoassay shows specificity and sensitivity comparable to radioimmunoassay making use of radioactive tracer unnecessary.
(5) It is important to be aware of the histological characteristics of this essentially benign condition so that unnecessary radical therapies can be avoided.
(6) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
(7) It is unnecessary to make any special more complicated incision designed to avoid lymphatics.
(8) In these cases, a thyroid scintiscan may avoid an unnecessary surgical intervention.
(9) The differentiation between the various modes of involvement is essential as some of them may be confused with recurrence and the clinician might resort to unnecessary drastic measures like enucleation.
(10) Check out the latest bill from Russia's parliament, the Duma: its aim is to ban the "unnecessary" usage of foreign words (in cases where there is a pre-existing Russian counterpart).
(11) Standard additions are unnecessary; Pt concentrations are read from a calibration chart of peak heights, which is linear up to 1.6 mg per liter.
(12) We encountered terrorists who wanted to kill us and we did everything we could to prevent unnecessary injury."
(13) Thus, modification in the dosage regimen of digoxin may be unnecessary in the case of coadministration with captopril.
(14) Only CT-guided or direct parasternal biopsy including immunhistochemistry can yield a reliable preoperative diagnosis and prevent unnecessary operation of lymphomas.
(15) The sonographic method, with a 97.7% specificity and a negative predictive value of 89.5%, proved to be specific enough to eliminate the necessity of routine catheterization for measuring residual bladder volumes of greater than or equal to 150 cm3, thus decreasing the incidence of some major postoperative complications that can occur due to unnecessary catheterization.
(16) With these scores we expect to facilitate the diagnostic screening, to indicate the way of therapy and to avoid unnecessary surgery for urinary incontinence in cases of motor-urge-incontinence (detrusor instability, unstable bladder), as long as a urodynamic examination is not feasible on every incontinent women.
(17) In some cases this has led to the misdiagnosis of mediastinal pathology and an unnecessary thoracotomy.
(18) No abdominal injuries were present in the group in whom the lavage results were negative, while no unnecessary laparotomies were performed in the group with a 4+ or 5+ positive DPL (calorimetric method).
(19) It would thus appear that repetition of the hCG injection at intervals of less than 4 days is unnecessary, and that a total stimulation period of 2-3 weeks is sufficient.
(20) The importance of ECG studies in these cases is stressed in order to establish the differential diagnosis and avoid unnecessary delays in the application of the proper therapy.