(a.) Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just a few months ago, the New York Times reported that the Obama administration has re-defined the term "militant" to mean: "all military-age males in a strike zone" - the ultimate expression of the rancid dehumanizing view that Muslims are inherently guilty of being Terrorists unless proven otherwise.
(2) In experiments on 370 gerbils (Meriones tamariscinus) and 56 albino rats, studies have been made on the effects of vitamin E, rancid cod-liver oil and unsaturated fatty acids (oleic, oxidated oleic and linoleic) upon the permeability of erythrocyte membrane.
(3) The point at which peak exposure occurs during the grain inspection process has been identified as the off odor test in which the inspector smells the grain sample for rancidity, sourness, etc.
(4) David Miliband was right, in his well-judged Commons performance : this is a "rancid" law.
(5) When rancid lard was used and pigs were exposed to the effects of stress factors from the 55th day of the trail, signs of affected walking and lack of appetite were observed.
(6) I should point out this happened at a party conference and the hotel was rancid with politicos and hacks.
(7) Oxidative rancidity in herring and redfish was studied as a function of the applied irradiation dose, the storage time and storage temperature and the packaging conditions.--Measurements of the TBA (thiobarbituric acid) value and the peroxide value were used to evaluate the degree of oxidation of lipids, and were related with sensory scores.--Especially for the fatty fish species (herring) irradiation accelerated lipid oxidation and induced oxidative rancidity.
(8) The physical characteristics of the premixes were also acceptable, with the exception of the one containing soybean oil which became caked and rancid.
(9) For the experiments conducted on a semi-fatty fish (redfish), oxidative rancidity was never the limiting factor for organoleptic acceptability.
(10) Every speech has lines praising hardworking migrants, of course, but the overall tone of this cowardly discourse emits a rancid stench.
(11) Corynebacterium bovis is a gram-positive rod which can cause bovine mastitis and rancidity in cream.
(12) Hopefully, sickened by the rancid, greedy human dross that runs and ruins our country, we will start to turn, respectfully, in our thousands to dogs, for a while, or even to the exclusion of anything else, because a dog is a flawless innocent.
(13) We have already gone through the excruciating experience of having the Queen herself wean us off the teat of the British honours system, a fixture of Australian distinction and chivalry that remained well after those fruity awards had turned rancid.
(14) The rancid fish-oil flavour of autoxidized tetraene, pentaene and hexaene fatty acid esters disappears during storage or heating with free amino acids or proteins.
(15) That precis doesn't quite evoke the tone of the attack: another Twitter feminist defended Lewis later with: "It is never OK to call another woman a vicious rancid bitch."
(16) The results show that added neutral and oxidized lipids, even at high rancidity levels, do not affect shear resistances measured by the Kramer shear-compression cell in non-formaldehyde forming species such as megrim and sardine, over the frozen storage period.
(17) Its activity varies widely between individual milk samples, and there is a high correlation between its activity and the development of hydrolytic rancidity in the milk on storage.
(18) Rancidity development in feeds and feed ingredients reduces the feeds' nutritive value and produces toxic peroxides.
(19) David Miliband said as much in 2013 when he attacked the coalition’s “rancid” plan to hold benefit rises below the rate of inflation, and observed that the same savings could be made simply by not giving tax relief on millionaires’ pension savings.
(20) Infectious complications following delivery were, in the past, attributed to "milk fever": these were milk congestion, milk deposits, rancid milk, etc., that were held responsible.
Tacit
Definition:
(a.) Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
(2) Salmond also made a tacit admission that the "Brown bounce" – the prime minister's success in rebuilding voters' confidence during the financial crisis – had been a factor.
(3) The reform was killed off last summer by Tory MPs acting, initially at least, with the tacit approval of David Cameron.
(4) Russia's strongman garners tacit support, and even some quiet plaudits, from some of the world's most important emerging powers, starting with China and India.
(5) If we remain silent, the racists will treat this as tacit endorsement – and history will damn us for it.
(6) Graphic: theguardian.com Senior special operations officials have cited the detentions policy inertia as contributing to the tacit preference for killing terrorism suspects instead of capturing them.
(7) Cameron: we can compromise with Russia to end Syrian war Read more Third, Putin appears to have succeeded in gaining tacit acceptance of the de facto situation in Ukraine.
(8) A tacit conspiracy builds up on both political extremes that is entirely to the detriment of women.
(9) In an age of economic crisis, the tacit assumption of the governing class is that political reform is superseded by the growing demand for security.
(10) While the reshuffle may be partly to appease fans who resent his position as a figurehead, it could also be seen as a tacit admission that Ashley got a big football decision horribly wrong last season, in deciding not to replace Alan Pardew and almost suffering relegation as a result.
(11) The purpose of the present study was to examine the tacit coordination in interdependent relationships between two persons.
(12) As part of the process of appointing a CEO, there would have been informal discussions with major shareholders to get their opinions and tacit approval.
(13) The US had previously signalled its tacit support for the military's actions by giving the go-ahead for the jets' delivery , and by avoiding terming Morsi's overthrow as a coup.
(14) In a tacit reference to Sarkozy's re-election ambitions for 2012, he said this should be done "without artificial electoral fever".
(15) In 1997, Labour and the Lib Dems came to an informal accord to limit their campaigning in some of each other’s target seats and tacitly encouraged anti-Tory tactical voting (in the Cheshire seat of Tatton, the two parties stood down to make way for the independent Martin Bell, who defeated the corrupt Tory MP Neil Hamilton).
(16) Having persuaded Murdoch that his version of Labour, which ditched the term socialist in favour of New, along with clause IV, was no threat to Murdoch’s global ambitions, Blair secured the tacit and even overt support of the Tory press.
(17) The very people Corbyn and Stein condemn at home for their racism, they tacitly endorse abroad.
(18) This policy change is a tacit admission of what Edward Snowden (and 2001 whistleblower William Binney before him) had been claiming, namely that the warrantless surveillance of US citizens by the NSA and other government agencies does, in fact, violate the constitution of the United States.
(19) Any such levity, however, is leavened by the tacit acknowledgment that existence is futile, and we are all just bags of flesh and bones whiling away the days before death and putrefaction sets in.
(20) But it remains to be seen if Netanyahu will risk further alienating Obama with tacit shows of support for Romney without being confident of a Republican victory.