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Snotty


Definition:

  • (a.) Foul with snot; hence, mean; dirty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But later, by the time he was selling out theatres for his live shows, that gawky guile and snotty cheek had morphed into relentless anxiety and slapstick self-consciousness.
  • (2) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
  • (3) Hackney Council has actually done a good job of improving the environment and by and large the borough is a fairly good place to live and not nearly as overrun with snotty upper-middle class twits as other gentrified boroughs.
  • (4) but there was a snotty punk rock edge to Gregg Popovich's reply.
  • (5) Reviews call her “deft” and “deliciously snotty”, her presence in a film a “recommendation”.
  • (6) The very idea of us renouncing a beverage that King Charles II tried to ban and The Women's Petition Against Coffee of 1674 claimed had "so Eunucht our Husbands and Crippled our more kind gallants they come from it with nothing moist but their snotty noses, nothing stiffe but their Joints ..." is unthinkable.
  • (7) One is the cheeringly snotty cheek of the journalist.
  • (8) She recently scrapped an entire snotty punk record, and an early listen to this reveals a fair few tunes-by-numbers that belie the heavyweight producers (StarGate).
  • (9) His mother sees him out of the house while I slump on the sofa and weep, gasping, snotty, desperate, final: "I have lost my son."
  • (10) Quite the opposite I have no time for the all-too-smug, seen-it-all-before snottiness towards Russell Brand that is so prevalent among the political commentariat.
  • (11) I can still remember reading the chart every fortnight, bewildered and thrilled at the names it contained: Poor Old Soul by Orange Juice, Let’s Build a Car by Swell Maps, There Goes Concorde Again by And The Native Hipsters, even I’m in Love with Margaret Thatcher by The Notsensibles (released, unbelievably, by a record label called Snotty Snail).
  • (12) Because no doubt it’s because my ladybrain is soft and can only cope with things like leather trousers, but I don’t understand the snottiness around money and clothes.

Spotty


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of spots; marked with spots.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The label was present in a spotty fashion or over a so-called uropod.
  • (2) Enhanced sonograms were classified into five patterns according to the relative changes of the echo levels between the tumor and the nontumorous parenchyma of the liver as a result of enhancement: hyperechoic change, isoechoic change, hypoechoic change with hyperechoic rim (rim sign), marginal spotty hyperechoic change, and internal spotty hyperechoic change.
  • (3) 1) small elevation, 2) spotty barium fleck, 3) ill defined barium fleck and 4) barium fleck with halo were suggested the possibility of inflammatory bowel diseases.
  • (4) Among 58 patients with the syndrome, spotty facial pigmentation was present in 36 (62%), and 29 (50%) of these also had pigmented spots on their lips.
  • (5) On incremental CT, dense, spotty peripheral enhancement was present in 23 of the 30 (77%) hemangiomas.
  • (6) Later spotty or smudgy extravasation may be seen in necrotic tumor areas, and increased vascular anastomoses appear between the nutritive and functional pulmonary circulations.
  • (7) A group of patients with cardiac myxoma who have a heritable syndrome involving skin myxomas, endocrine tumors, and lentiginosis--the complex of myxomas, spotty pigmentation, and endocrine overactivity--has been described previously.
  • (8) Observations of patients with plasma cell osteomyelitis and chronic destructive sympathetic arthritis indicate a special set of findings due to plasma cell osteomyelitis: metadiaphyseal ossifying periostitis, extreme demineralisation of the adjacent epiphysis with spotty focal sclerosis of the spongiosa and a chronic arthritis.
  • (9) In T1-weighted magnetic resonance images, a spotty hyperintense tumor of the sellar region was shown.
  • (10) An enzyme immunoassay (EIA) test system has been developed for the detection of tick spotty fever (TSF) group Rickettsia.
  • (11) The renal angiographic findings in our two patients with scleroderma and recent onset of hypertension included minor changes in the distal interlobar and arcuate arteries and a nephrogram displaying diffuse, spotty lucencies.
  • (12) Axillary node negative cancers with no or only spotty tumor necrosis (92% of all pN0 cases) were associated with a 96% 5-year survival rate corrected for intercurrent causes.
  • (13) Eleven showed varying degrees of radiographically detectable calcification having a spotty, linear, or amorphous pattern affecting either a short segment or the whole appendix.
  • (14) Case 1 was a 43-year-old woman with multiple cutaneous myxomas, mammary myxomas and spotty mucocutaneous pigmentation.
  • (15) Spotty calcification of the arteries of the lower extremity, which histologically is found in the intima, is also seen a little more often in diabetics with gangrene.
  • (16) We found this neoplasm in four women (ages 27 through 61 years) who had the complex of myxomas, spotty pigmentation, endocrine overactivity, and schwannomas, an autosomal dominant familial syndrome.
  • (17) The metastases spread mainly by the lymphatic system (especially in diffuse, spotty or pseudo-elephantiasic forms and in regional forms), however numerous lymph node filters found through out the lymphatic system limit the progression of neoplasic cells.
  • (18) Though population, disease and mortality statistics of modern China are spotty and sometimes questionable, common consensus among the researchers is that since 1949 the public health situation in China has improved tremendously.
  • (19) Ramification at the pulp of the thumb is of a radiating rather than segmental type, and its control can be considered as spotty or intermittent.
  • (20) In basal hypertrophic cartilage areas, a co-distribution of collagens II and X was found with very little and "spotty" collagen III.

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