(a.) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless.
Example Sentences:
(1) This weekend’s games would have to go some way to top the drama of Indianapolis rallying to overcome 28-point deficit against Kansas City , New Orleans posting their first-ever road playoff win in Philadelphia and a sleeveless Colin Kaepernick steering San Francisco to victory over Green Bay at a frozen Lambeau Field .
(2) The TV performance saw Fallon begin, dressed in the sleeveless-denim-and-bandana look Springsteen sported in the mid-80s, before the Boss – dressed identically – came out to take over.
(3) He recounted being in a meeting when a colleague mentioned a boy who had arrived at school in below-zero temperatures wearing just a thin, sleeveless bodywarmer.
(4) The fine needle technic utilizes a sleeveless, thin, flexible needle for transhepatic cholangiography.
(5) Sleeveless dresses were verboten despite the heat of summer.
(6) Sixty percent of that population will be under 30 by 2030, so it’s really time for retailers to take notice that they exist.” For years Muslim women in the UK have had to resort to a jigsaw puzzle assemblage of long sleeved T-shirts and cardigans to cover low-cut necks and sleeveless dresses.
(7) That dress earned universal praise for its elegance, boldness and simplicity, though some jibbed at its sleevelessness.
(8) Umran Ashman has run the website Modestkini since 2005, and alongside her "full cover" burkini-style swimsuits, she offers semi-covered styles, from short-sleeved tunics with three-quarter length leggings to sleeveless dress styles with cycling shorts.
(9) Summer is for those who like salads, greenery, sleeping naked under a sheet instead of cocooned in flannelette and thermals, sleeveless dresses, pedicures and strappy sandals, iced tea and Pimms, laughing gaily in the sunshine instead of nodding sombrely indoors as another Norwegian killer is unmasked, or baking themselves on a beach as the sun beats down.
(10) These women will usually be on the arm of some dude wearing some awful designer denim, a sleeveless shirt, so as to show off his designer tattoos, and expensive sunglasses, which prove, of course, just how cool he is.
(11) Forensics specialists in black sleeveless jackets peered into the soil looking for a flash of white bone.
(12) Jaeger now has three womenswear lines: Jaeger Collection, the don't-frighten-the-horses clothes we all recognise; Jaeger London, innovative dresses and separates for contemporary working women; and Jaeger Black, its premium range of what it considers investment dressing - the perfect sleeveless black shift dress, the evening coat.
(13) A group of tanned young men in sleeveless shirts and cowboy hats roamed, looking a bit like fashion models on their way to a dude-ranch photo shoot.
(14) Whether or not they approved of the Saint Laurent collection, the audience were united in lust for the latest versions (classic and sleeveless) of the house's Perfecto biker jacket.
(15) Robert Swannell, M&S's chairman, promised that the company was listening and said the number of dresses with sleeves was up 20% last year, while the sleeveless range had been cut down from 300 to 173.
(16) Earlier in the day, they will have pulled on one of those green, North Face, sleeveless fleeces over an Aran sweater tucked into the freshly pressed denims and gone stravaiging about the local park.
Unreasonable
Definition:
(a.) Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the three cases examined, the panel said that none "represents subversion of the peer review process nor unreasonable attempts to influence the editorial policy of journals".
(2) Ensure data protection rules don’t place unreasonable costs on business.
(3) Unreasonable expectations and expansion of the health sector have spawned counterproductive effects which are to some extent detrimental to public health.
(4) She said aggression or abuse were never acceptable, but NHS contracts obliged GPs to give a warning before removing patients, in most cases, with the exception of cases where this would pose a risk or it was unreasonable to do so.
(5) It is wiser, in the light of results reporting individual differences in the existence and extent of the paradox, and its sensitivity to stimulus conditions, to side with Blake and Fox (1973) when they observed that it is not unreasonable to suppose that various stimulus conditions might yield varying amounts of summation or even inhibition.
(6) It was concluded that treatment with enalapril was well tolerated and it is, therefore, unreasonable to restrict the initiation of treatment with enalapril to inpatients.
(7) This paper, presented as part of a panel on the subject, has propounded the view that the defense is unconscionable, using that aspect of the definition dealing with unreasonableness.
(8) Thus, EDS seems to be a "safe" diagnosis, and it is not unreasonable to assume that it could represent a disease entity.
(9) The surveyor is proud to announce, "I can assure my readers that Walden has a reasonably tight bottom at a not unreasonable, though at an unusual, depth."
(10) Speaking of the Chilcot inquiry this week, David Cameron said: "It would be unreasonable to postpone it beyond the next election," with his eyes clearly on the prize rather than a genuine interest in justice.
(11) "If they quoted unreasonable rates, they might lose the opportunity to work again."
(12) Most frequent efforts were to pass state statutes making it unreasonably difficult to obtain an abortion.
(13) Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, said: “This is an excellent ruling – and supports our view that people coming to the UK who don’t have sufficient resources to support themselves and would become an unreasonable burden should not be able to access national welfare systems.
(14) The suit says the helmets were unreasonably dangerous and unsafe.
(15) The demands become especially unreasonable at holiday time, when politicians can be portrayed as indifferent to the public suffering or inconvenience.
(16) Also, as we gain further understanding of the molecular and cellular consequences of brain injury, it is not unreasonable to expect improved pharmacologic therapy of the various sequelae of brain injury.
(17) Neither have unreasonably low determinations of viability.
(18) Kenton's alliance with Zaleshoff isn't always an easy one - the journalist is unimpressed by the spy's attempt to fob him off with the official Stalinist line on Trotskyite subversion, for example, and Zaleshoff is, not unreasonably, suspicious of Kenton's motives for helping him - but it's kept afloat by the undercurrent of sexual attraction between Kenton and Zaleshoff's sister.
(19) Heydon made the not unreasonable point that it was strange for someone to seek an early appearance at the royal commission if they didn’t intend to cooperate fully and answer questions.
(20) But it sees the recovery gathering pace and growth almost doubling in 2011 – forecasts that King today described as not "unreasonable".