(a.) Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank.
(adv.) In a straightforward manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
(2) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
(3) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(4) On examples from their own practice the authors draw attention to the that the diagnosis and treatment of this disease is not always as straightforward as might appear from the literature.
(5) The IAP technique was straightforward to perform, it yielded quick results, and was highly reproducible, provided that a standardised short fixation period of two and a half hours was used.
(6) Modern anesthetic and surgical techniques have made the operation much safer and more straightforward.
(7) The fact that the leave campaign are getting things as straightforward as this wrong should call into judgment the bigger argument about leaving the EU.” He said out campaigners were trying to persuade people to vote for Brexit solely on the back of an issue “that is not true”.
(8) If the observed odds ratios in the data follow this pattern, the model-predicted odds ratios will be accurate, and the meaning of the odds ratio for each risk factor will be straightforward.
(9) The stomach must need some respite from the cold shock of missing relatively straightforward opportunities.
(10) An intradermal skin test with 1 : 100 dilution of 2-5 per cent thiopentone was positive and subsequent anaesthesia without thiopentone was straightforward.
(11) Inside the building, the gallery spaces are curiously straightforward.
(12) A different, more straightforwardly anti-cuts message could perhaps consolidate a left-vote in a PR system, but is unlikely to work for a party seeking to lead.
(13) Written partnership agreements, employment contracts and related documents may seem to complicate what appears to be a straightforward arrangement, and can make a close relationship somewhat more impersonal.
(14) Use of the proportional-response photon counter makes the measurement straightforward and more accurate.
(15) A straightforward information-processing model describes the mental processes that are used in deciding whether a sentence is true or false of an accompanying picture.
(16) The surest sign of malign intention in financial dealings is a failure to be straightforward about the fees.
(17) With attention to detail, prosthesis sizing is straightforward using intraoperative determination of corporeal girth and total corporeal length.
(18) However the advent of computer-based image analysers offers a more straightforward, although less direct, method of making such measurements.
(19) A straightforward decision-making process was found among males, but more complicated influences exist for females.
(20) Woodward maintained that it would be simple to thrash out a "straightforward commercial settlement".
(v. t.) Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
(v. t.) Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.
(v. t.) Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.
(n.) A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment.
(n.) One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.
(n.) A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
(v. i.) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
(v. i.) To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
(v. t.) To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.
Example Sentences:
(1) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(2) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
(3) The real offense, for which no one has been charged, is the wanton disregard for human life that Manning exposed.
(4) We’re back to those flappers, with their jobs and their knee-length skirts and their dangerous opinions about politics, or the girls of the 1960s destroying the traditional family by wantonly taking the pill.
(5) Long said: "This is not an attack on an individual or on a party, but a wanton attack on the democratic process.
(6) In the 1930s the Spanish city of Guernica became a symbol of wanton murder and destruction.
(7) The wanton slaughter of two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq and the severe and even lethal torture of Afghan detainees generated, at worst, shockingly short jail time for the killers and, usually, little more than letters of reprimand.
(8) What distinguishes games from books, or films, is that the dodgy sexual politics and wanton violence of one is used as a stick to bash them all.
(9) "The president commiserates with all the families who lost loved ones in the heinous attacks and extends his heartfelt sympathies to all those who suffered injuries or lost their properties during the wanton assaults on Bauchi and Kaduna States," said a statement.
(10) But that doesn't mean that halting and reversing the wanton growth of shorthaul flights is an act of class war.
(11) Here in Bristol we could use the old railway lines that used to thread their way into the city, before Beeching and Marples ripped them up – another example of wanton government lack of foresight.
(12) To the contrary, they are the inevitable by-products of societies that recruit every institution in service of defending even the most wanton abuses by the state.
(13) Later at university, there were nice Protestant ladies and wanton atheists; taxpayer-funded Guinness and Spear of Destiny .
(14) Three hours of sexual and pharmacological excess, wanton debauchery, unfathomable avarice, gleeful misogyny, extreme narcotic brinksmanship, malfeasance and lawless behaviour is a lot to take, and some have complained of the film's relentlessness, which, if understood in formal terms, I think may be one of its main aims.
(15) Humankind must become accountable on a massive scale for the wanton destruction of our collective home.
(16) Young children were expected to carry out gruelling domestic chores and were wantonly punished, she says.
(17) An influential Communist party journal has compared online rumours to Cultural Revolution-style denunciations and warned of the need to curb "wanton defamation" of authority, as China intensifies its campaign to control social media.
(18) What we are seeing in London tonight, the wanton vandalism, smashing of windows, has nothing to do with peaceful protest."
(19) On the periphery of all the wanton lust and questionable puns stands Evie (Antonia Thomas), who’s pretty, sweet and has a camera; the holy trinity for chumps like Dylan.
(20) Following release of the Mosul video showing wanton destruction of antiquities, there has been a lot of email traffic between Libyans working in archaeology and Arab-world representatives on the major international heritage bodies,” said David Mattingly, a professor at the University of Leicester, who has spent years excavating Roman ruins in Libya.