(superl.) Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich.
(superl.) Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I feel like itʼs a bit desperate," Shields said of her former co-star , as she wondered who was advising her to put on such a racy display.
(2) If Mensch's life were a novel it would be the sort of racy page-turner given pride of place in airport booksellers at this time of year.
(3) Ben has written a few novels (with excellent fake-real names, like Air Dance), but they weren't exactly to small-town tastes: "Miss Coogan at the drugstore says that [Billy Said Keep Going] is pretty racy," Susan tells Ben early in the book; while another character remembers being perturbed when reading a homosexual rape scene in Conway's Daughter.
(4) The Borat star apparently walked after his vision of a racy treatment depicting Mercury's famously salacious lifestyle was at odds with the more family-friendly approach desired by the singer's erstwhile bandmates.
(5) Baron Cohen, who starred in Les Miserables and Hugo and had recruited the Oscar-winning screenwriter Peter Morgan to work on the script, reportedly wanted a racy "warts-and-all" approach .
(6) Intact acinar cells in pancreatic tissue sections and isolated acini showed a strong binding of WGA, RACI, and HPA on the apical cell surface, whereas VAAI, UEAI, LCA, and Con A reacted strongly with the basolateral glycocalyx, but not with the apical surface.
(7) Actual numbers of adverse events were observed for each hospital and compared to the number predicted by the RAMI, RARI, and RACI models.
(8) Companies raised $21.8bn (£14.4bn), up 74% from the year before, but a number of offerings were cancelled towards the end of the year as markets grew rocky and investors became wary of racy businesses.
(9) That image started to unravel after James Watson published The Double Helix , his racy behind-the-scenes account of the pursuit of the structure of DNA.
(10) I want my readers to know what’s going wrong with our society and our times,” said Murong Xuecun, an outspoken novelist whose racy books about debauched officials and corruption can no longer published in mainland China.
(11) Radcliffe had been (spuriously) tipped to replace Sacha Baron Cohen in the planned biopic, the latter reportedly having exited over his desire for a racy "warts and all" portrayal of the flamboyant singer.
(12) The time had come for his brand of racy and riotous comedy.
(13) Using existing data sources, we developed three risk-adjusted measures of hospital quality: the risk-adjusted mortality index (RAMI), the risk-adjusted readmissions index (RARI), and the risk-adjusted complication index (RACI).
(14) Ofcom recently ruled against the broadcast of a racy Flo Rida video on MTV and Channel 4's 4Music that it deemed too sexualised for a pre-9pm watershed transmission.
(15) Metabolic labelling experiments with 35SO4 showed that the RACI-bound glycoconjugates released by A121 cells were sulfated.
(16) "This is a two-hander and Matt, you're only as good as your other hand," Douglas said, then got really racy: "You want the bottom or the top?"
(17) The culture minister heads a major publishing house, and the economy minister, rightwing Bruno Le Maire , once wrote racy romances about a lovestruck nurse – under a pseudonym – before graduating to literary fiction and memoirs.
(18) We can start romances through dating sites, get laid with apps like Grindr or Tinder , and flirt with our romantic interests or our long-time loves by sending racy Snapchats , or sexy texts.
(19) In retrospect, it seems about as racy as a cave-drawing – which is almost certainly one reason why sales have plummeted.
(20) In 2010 a comic book version of Ulysses was ruled too racy for Apple, but the company later changed its mind about allowing a naked Buck Mulligan to be shown in an iPad application, and the complete version of Ulysses Seen is also now available .
Sportive
Definition:
(a.) Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among the chromosomal rearrangements that occurred during the chromosomal evolution of the sportive lemurs, only those which would generate a pronounced reproductive barrier were considered in relation to the geographic distribution of this genus.
(2) Today more younger patients were operated replacing a destroyed hip joint: the reintegration in professional and sportive activities is a major part of the rehabilitation process.
(3) Of the 149 patients, 130 had been injured in sportive activities and 110 were able to return to some degree of athletics.
(4) They also discuss the problems of muscle atrophy and the time at which sportive activities of varying strains may be taken up again.
(5) It reduces the theoric immobilization time, makes rehabilitation easier as well as the return to sportive and professional activities.
(6) In September 2008 I watched a crowd of no more than a hundred fans of Espérance Sportive Tunis – the major team of the country – take on the riot police in the backstreets around Place de Carthage and Place de Barcelone.
(7) Not only does OLT provide mere survival (among 5 patients with lethal hepatic disease, 4 are alive at 2 years from OLT), it also provides a regained quality of life with a virtually normal (for the price of a daily medication intake) family, professional and sportive life.
(8) Specificity of ultrastructural organization of the skeletal muscle fibers is revealed in connection with sportive specialization.
(9) Schleck is now the favourite for this summer's race and he said: "My goal is to win the Tour de France in a sportive way, being the best of all competitors, not in court.
(10) On account of the fact that the regular wheelchair, above all when "sportively styled", is forcing both legs, i.e.
(11) 5 of those 10 patients were free of complaints during sportive activities 3 years later.
(12) To avoid this and to conserve the sportive ability we recommend the displacement of the tuberositas tibiae to medial and distal.
(13) 10 out of those 11 patients had no complaints during their sportive activities 3 years after this operation.
(14) A retrospective analysis of 29 patients with regard to their sportive activities after operative treatment of osteochondritis dissecans was carried out.
(15) A review of consecutive treatment methods and professional and sportive rehabilitation measures are presented.
(16) On comparison of the West African potto with two other prosimian myoglobins known so far, there were 12 differences between the potto and the galago (East African) and 18 differences between the potto and the sportive lemur (Madagascar).
(17) Graham Little, presenter of ITV4's The Cycle Show I'll be watching stage two at Ballycastle, a beautiful spot and also the start and finish of the Giant's Causeway Coast Sportive that I help organise!
(18) Ergospirometry was performed in 19 children and adolescents operated for tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) to assess their exercise capacity compared to an active non sportive control group.
(19) In 1908, glorifying the sportive energy of combat, the Italian futurist Marinetti called war “the hygiene of the world”.
(20) All patients were able to continue their sportive activity after the excision of the paratenon.