(1) Clinical specifications: On a local clinical level, the total toothlessness of the elderly presents as: a muscular hypotomy, a loss of the vertical dimension of occlusion, a marked increase in nasal and oral fissures, a stiffening of the articular structures, a great reduction of osteo-mucus in the residual edges, a spreading of the tongue which invades the oral cavity, a loss of occlusive memory, Bearing on therapy and teaching: good clinical observation, constant reference to the medical services, appropriate surgery prior to denture fitting.
(2) Ministers should resist attempts to give courts a greater role in the revocation of citizenship for terrorism suspects in order to prevent the law becoming “toothless”, a leaked government document says.
(3) It makes the ICC look spineless and toothless.” Ultimately, Libya’s state today is about more than one man, and many feel that the western governments who were eager to get Gaddafi out failed to help Libya stabilise after his death.
(4) "Without targets, Redd becomes toothless," said Peg Putt of the Wilderness Society .
(5) Without him the team's looks "a bit toothless", he says.
(6) Culture site the AV Club dismissed the show as “a dreadful, toothless, dead-eyed slog”.
(7) Its inaction over allegations of widespread phone hacking at the News of the World led it to being branded a "toothless poodle".
(8) Doesn't the hedging unit undertaking prop trading prove the toothlessness of the Volcker rule?
(9) Toothless is an osteopetrotic mutation in the rat characterized by reduced bone resorption, few osteoclasts and failure to be cured by bone marrow transplants from normal littermates.
(10) Writing on the Guardian's website, shadow exchequer minister Owen Smith was sceptical, saying the anti-avoidance measures would be "a toothless tiger".
(11) As for the supposed improvements in the Pacific deal, he said, “It’s the same tired old labor standards we had with George Bush, with a few trinkets added.” In a largely toothless side agreement, Nafta’s three signatories – the United States, Mexico and Canada – targeted child labor, minimum-wage violations and occupational safety problems.
(12) Some had speculated that the Red Devils might be porous at the back, despite conceding only four goals in qualifying, but few predicted that they would be quite so toothless going forward.
(13) As journalist Peter Maass noted , “The agency can take companies to court, but its overworked lawyers don’t really have the time to go the distance against the bottomless legal staff in Silicon Valley.” Maass concluded that the agency was low-tech, toothless – and defensive about work like his.
(14) The number of completely toothless individuals was higher (11.83%) with diabetics than with healthy individuals (2.25%).
(15) Tottenham toothless without Harry Kane and must find another striker Read more Soldado joined Tottenham from Valencia in a then club-record £26m transfer but has arrived at Villarreal for a fee reported to be around £7m.
(16) The policing and crime panel is just a toothless watchdog with no power to intervene.
(17) It has been suggested that the fossil Neandertal from La Chapelle-aux-Saints was so toothless that he would have had to have his food pre-chewed or otherwise prepared for him.
(18) They contributed to their own downfall with defensive mistakes, as Paul Lambert, Villa's manager, ruefully acknowledged, and looked toothless up front, where the lack of goals and Christian Benteke's loss of form are a genuine concern.
(19) California water restrictions have not stopped the sprinklers from flowing Read more Governor Jerry Brown, who has come under fire for imposing a 25% reduction in water use on cities and municipalities but not on farms, signed a relatively toothless law last year that gave the state no power to assign rights to groundwater use.
(20) Jon Stewart, who has taken to the story of the crack-smoking mayor like Ford to the pipe, laughed at the city council's apparent toothlessness when attempting to strip him of his mayoral position: "That's justice, Canadian style," he snorted.
Toothy
Definition:
(a.) Toothed; with teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are also often silly, an immediate snapshot commemoration of the big and small events in our lives: witness Sasha and Malia Obama mean-mugging into Sasha's phone shortly after their father was sworn in a second time, or Hillary Clinton and Meryl Streep taking a toothy joint selfie at a state department gala last year.
(2) A rangy former quarterback with a big, toothy grin, he was raised in the low-income housing projects in Brooklyn – "a tough place" – with his father, a proud but poorly educated man, floating from job to job; one of the worst was delivering and picking up used nappies.
(3) For an avuncular former teacher, known for a toothy smile and sometimes nicknamed "Fozzie Bear", it adds up to an uncompromising platform designed to cause palpitations in both the Amsterdam stock exchange and European commission corridors.
(4) So far this week he has displayed his trademark, toothy grin at the launch of the latest addition to the Virgin Atlantic fleet - the world's longest aircraft - at the Farnborough air show; chatted to bemused trainspotters during the inaugural journey of one of his fleet of Virgin Rail tilting trains; and he has just stripped with the cast of the Broadway version of The Full Monty 100 ft above New York's Times Square on a giant mobile phone to mark the launch of Virgin Mobile in the US.
(5) In Trump, we have a major presidential candidate who doesn’t just parse words, conceal facts, or shade the truth, but constantly tells big blatant lies .” In person Mikkelson, 56, is boyish, with a toothy smile and shy demeanour.
(6) Mayer was blunt about the implications: “This will change the world .” Mayer is a tall, vigorous woman in her mid-60s with bright eyes, spiky grey hair and a toothy grin.
(7) Even when I am 80 I will be able to catch Naveen if she runs away," she says, cracking a toothy grin.
(8) The gulls take an interest, then there's a swirl of water and a black dorsal fin appears followed by, for an instant, a 4m-long toothy shark.
(9) Glaring out from the brick wall of an old sweet factory on the edge of the Olympic site in east London, a furious face throws a toothy snarl across the canal.
(10) It's rare in life, especially life in this economy, that one can proudly declare with a toothy grin that "this is a big fucking deal".
(11) To determine whether young infants discriminate photographs of different emotions on an affect-relevant basis or on the basis of isolated features unrelated to emotion, groups of 17-, 23-, and 29-week-olds were habituated to slides of 8 women posing either Toothy Angry, Nontoothy Angry, or Nontoothy Smiling facial expressions and were then shown 2 new women in the familiarized expression and in a novel Toothy Smiling expression.
(12) Now he's got a great head of wavy white hair and I swear, when he smiles that great toothy grin of his, I always think: wow, James Coburn!
(13) In other hands, the wonderfully odd Wodaabe, Herdsmen of the Sun (1989), with its nomadic tribe's beauty contest to find the most gorgeous man in the desert might have been a National Geographic film, with its immensely tall, preening tribesmen, exquisitely madeup, standing on tiptoe, opening their eyes as wide as possible (the whites being considered particularly winning), their mouths fixed in improbable toothy grins.
(14) Not the comparatively ancient generation that once produced Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling and Christina Aguilera, but the new breed, who are primped and propagated like prize roses; toothy munchkins given TV shows and then slapped on backpacks, pencil cases and, if they can carry a tune without significant wobble, album covers.
(15) At all 3 ages, recovery to the novel Toothy Smiling faces occurred only after habituation to Nontoothy faces (whether smiling or angry), not after habituation to Toothy Angry faces, indicating that infants had been responsive to nonspecific features of the photographs (presence or absence of bared teeth) rather than to affectively relevant configurations of features.
(16) 'I watched as Portillo's smile evaporated into a cynical smirk and it became the turn of Stephen Twigg's huge toothy grin to light up the sports centre.
(17) He knew – though was alway mystified as to quite why – that there were some people for whom his toothy, emollient smiles just did not work.