deshanksuman/cornercases_fews_wsd huggingface dataset:
Sentence:  This patient was a 65 - year old white male accountant who entered the New York Hospital for his fourth and terminal admission on June 26 , 1959 , because of disabling weakness and general [WSD]debility[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Sentence:  Additional findings at this time included cardiomegaly , peripheral arteriosclerosis obliterans , and [WSD]cholelithiasis[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the presence of gallstones in the gallbladder
Sentence:  Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per [WSD]liter[/WSD] , and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1 , 1958 , the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse , and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
Sentence:  The terminal hospital admission on June 27 , 1959 , was necessitated by continued weakness and [WSD]debility[/WSD] complicated by urinary retention and painful thrombosed hemorrhoids . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Sentence:  The body was that of a well developed , somewhat [WSD]debilitated[/WSD] white man weighing 108 lb. There were bilateral pterygia and arcus senilis , and the mouth was edentulous . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  make weak
Sentence:  Such swollen fibers were deeply eosinophilic , contained a few pyknotic nuclei , and showed loss of cross striations , [WSD]obliteration[/WSD] of myofibrils , and prominent vacuolization . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  destruction by annihilating something
Sentence:  Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such as printing inks , paints , adhesives , molten plastics , and bread dough , for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '' , `` shortness '' , `` [WSD]spinnability[/WSD] '' , etc. , which are usually judged by subjective methods at present . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being suitable for spinning or the capability of being spun (used of textile fibers)
Sentence:  There is another means which should show the direction and relative value of the stresses in viscoelastic fluids that is not mentioned as such in the [WSD]literature[/WSD] , and that is the shape of the suspended drops of low viscosity fluids in shear fields . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  There are no data published in the [WSD]literature[/WSD] on the shape of low viscosity drops to confirm the above formulas . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  There is a well-known relationship between [WSD]probability[/WSD] and entropy which states that * * f , where \q is the probability that state ( i.e. , volume for an ideal gas ) could be reached by chance alone . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event
Sentence:  There is a well-known relationship between probability and entropy which states that * * f , where \q is the [WSD]probability[/WSD] that state ( i.e. , volume for an ideal gas ) could be reached by chance alone . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event
Sentence:  But the Russians use gymnastics as the first step in training for all other sports because it provides training in every basic [WSD]quality[/WSD] except one , endurance . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
Sentence:  The gymnast must develop strength , [WSD]flexibility[/WSD] , coordination , timing , rhythm , courage , discipline , persistence and the desire for perfection . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped
Sentence:  The addition of endurance training later , when the body is mature enough to benefit from it without danger of injury , provides that final [WSD]quality[/WSD] that makes the top athlete , soldier or citizen . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
Sentence:  Dance teachers can respond to President Kennedy 's request not only through their regular dance work , but also through the kind of basic gymnastic work that makes for strength and [WSD]flexibility[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped
Sentence:  Very [WSD]little[/WSD] in today 's living provides the strength we need , and nothing provides the flexibility . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a small amount or duration
Sentence:  Very little in today 's living provides the strength we need , and nothing provides the [WSD]flexibility[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped
Sentence:  Dancers do have [WSD]flexibility[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped
Sentence:  As [WSD]flexibility[/WSD] improves , the feet will move closer to the hands and the bridge rise higher . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped
Sentence:  To further increase back [WSD]flexibility[/WSD] , work on the back circle . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped
Sentence:  Where their sharp edges seemed restless as sea waves thrusting themselves upward in angry motion , Papa-san sat glacier like , his smooth solidity , his very [WSD]immobility[/WSD] defying all the turmoil about him . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  remaining in place
Sentence:  Smiling at his quixotic thoughts , Warren turned back from the opening and [WSD]lit[/WSD] a cigarette before sitting down . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  begin to smoke
Sentence:  Pressing his cigarette out in the earth , Warren walked to the [WSD]slit[/WSD] and scanned the jagged hills . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a long narrow opening
Sentence:  Others carried extra clips for the Browning Automatic Rifle , which was in the hands of a [WSD]little[/WSD] Mexican named Martinez . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  Big ones and [WSD]little[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  All sizes : big ones , some wired to set off a whole field , [WSD]little[/WSD] ones , hand grenade size . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( * * f ) , the first and second [WSD]milliliter[/WSD] fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments , and very little in others . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
Sentence:  When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( * * f ) , the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments , and very [WSD]little[/WSD] in others . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
Sentence:  In our work the best procedure for removing substances causing nonspecific staining in order to obtain specific conjugates was to pass the conjugates through a DEAE-cellulose column and in some cases to absorb the first and second [WSD]milliliter[/WSD] fractions with sweet clover tissue powder . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
Sentence:  The wife , Amra , and her lover are both savagely portrayed , she as incarnate [WSD]sensuality[/WSD] , `` voluptuous '' and `` indolent '' , possibly `` a mischief maker '' , with `` a kind of luxurious cunning '' to set against her apparent simplicity , her `` bird like brain '' . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  desire for sensual pleasures
Sentence:  But it is characteristic of him , we are told , `` his [WSD]little[/WSD] artifice '' , to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art '' . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of children and animals) young, immature
Sentence:  It is this modulation which reveals to Jacoby his own frightful abjection and , simultaneously , his wife 's [WSD]infidelity[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being unfaithful
Sentence:  The horrifying humor , the specifically sexual embarrassment of the joke gone wrong , the monstrous image of the fat man dressed up as a whore dressing up as a baby ; the epiphany of that quivering flesh ; the bringing together around it of the secret liaison between indolent , mindless [WSD]sensuality[/WSD] and sharp , shrewd talent , cleverness with an occasional touch of genius ( which , however , does not know `` how to attack the problem of suffering '' ) ; the miraculous way in which music , revelation and death are associated in a single instant - all this seems a triumph of art , a rather desperate art , in itself ; beyond itself , also , it evokes numerous and distant resonances from the entire body of Mann 's work . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  desire for sensual pleasures
Sentence:  Piepsam calls the cyclist `` cur '' and `` puppy '' among other things , and at the crisis of his fit a [WSD]little[/WSD] fox-terrier stands before him and howls into his face . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  The ambulance is drawn by two `` charming '' [WSD]little[/WSD] horses . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  His unsuccessful strivings to give up drink are represented as religious strivings ; he keeps a bottle in a wardrobe at home , and `` before this wardrobe Praisegod Piepsam had before now gone [WSD]literally[/WSD] on his knees , and in his wrestlings had bitten his tongue - and still in the end capitulated '' . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration
Sentence:  The cyclist , by contrast , blond and blue-eyed , is simply unreflective , unproblematic Life , `` [WSD]blithe[/WSD] and carefree '' . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  lacking or showing a lack of due concern
Sentence:  In method as well as in theme this [WSD]little[/WSD] anecdote with its details selected as much for expressiveness and allegory as for `` realism '' , anticipates a kind of musical composition , as well as a kind of fictional composition , in which , as Leverku^hn says , `` there shall be nothing unthematic '' . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  It resembles , too , pictures such as Du^rer and Bruegel did , in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also [WSD]literary[/WSD] , the representation of a proverb , for example , or a deadly sin . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Sentence:  Presumably the same sun was shining upon [WSD]little[/WSD] Drew also , and those who had kidnapped him . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of children and animals) young, immature
Sentence:  He had [WSD]little[/WSD] time to himself , anyway . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
Sentence:  Charlie Marble was back and forth on several occasions , first to confer with Andy on the [WSD]advisability[/WSD] of cancelling the Las Vegas engagement - they decided it was wise - and later to announce that a prominent comedian , also an agency client , had agreed to fill the casino 's open date . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being advisable
Sentence:  Eliminating the patter and the upbeat numbers left [WSD]little[/WSD] but blues and other songs of equal melancholy . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a small amount or duration
Sentence:  They did ; though contemptuous , they were still [WSD]polite[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.
Sentence:  One [WSD]lithe[/WSD] leg straddled the railing and swung loosely before the creaking , torn pales . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  moving and bending with ease
Sentence:  The eyes , blue and always somewhat downcast , possessed a sullen [WSD]quality[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
Sentence:  That is , when Mr. Milstein thrust straight to the core of the music , sparks flying , bow shredding , violin singing , [WSD]glittering[/WSD] and sometimes spitting , Mr. Hendl could go along . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  be shiny, as if wet
Sentence:  They want to own a junior-grade castle , or a manor house , or some modest [WSD]little[/WSD] place where Shakespeare might once have staged a pageant for Great Elizabeth and all her bearded courtiers . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  The stained-glass windows may have developed unpremeditated patinas , the paneling may be no more durable than the planks in a [WSD]political[/WSD] platform . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a document stating the aims and principles of a political party
Sentence:  Nikolai Cherkasov , the Russian actor who has played such heroic roles as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible , performs the lanky Don Quixote , and does so with a simple dignity that bridges the inner [WSD]nobility[/WSD] and the surface absurdity of this poignant man . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct
Sentence:  The voices of all the characters , including that of Cherkasov , have richness , roughness or color to conform with the [WSD]personalities[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual
Sentence:  It is really as though the Russians have seen in this character the oftentimes underlying [WSD]vitality[/WSD] and courage of supposed buffoons . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  an energetic style
Sentence:  True , the pattern and flow of the drama have strong [WSD]literary[/WSD] qualities that are a bit wearisome in the first half , before Don Quixote goes to the duke 's court . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Sentence:  True , the pattern and flow of the drama have strong literary [WSD]qualities[/WSD] that are a bit wearisome in the first half , before Don Quixote goes to the duke 's court . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
Sentence:  There was [WSD]stability[/WSD] there , too - a color which his life had had once . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast
Sentence:  The old woman , stubbornly reigning in the house above the crashing waters took on an ominous [WSD]reality[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
Sentence:  They seemed then to have had a single mind and body , a [WSD]mutuality[/WSD] which had been accepted with the fact of their youth , casually . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a reciprocality of sentiments
Sentence:  The One Leg Lunge is a [WSD]split[/WSD] and all lifters practice this in their regular workouts . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
Sentence:  Indeed , a lighter weight works much better because a greater , more extensive [WSD]split[/WSD] can be performed . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
Sentence:  It increases [WSD]flexibility[/WSD] of the legs . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped
Sentence:  Place your Power Stands in position and adjust their height so that this will correspond to the height of your shoulders when you are in a deep leg [WSD]split[/WSD] as for a heavy Clean . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
Sentence:  Place a suitably loaded barbell across them ; grasp the bar ( which will rest against the back of your neck ) ; extend your feet forward and backward until you are in a deep leg [WSD]split[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
Sentence:  Squat style lifters and leg [WSD]split[/WSD] lifters would both benefit enormously by practicing those variations providing that they remember to make alternate sets with the left and right leg to the front . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
Sentence:  My eyes were so bleary I could barely see him but there he was , a [WSD]little[/WSD] smooth olivefaced guy in a new spring overcoat and a taffy colored fedora . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  All she did was write me a pleasant [WSD]little[/WSD] note about how it was beautiful while it lasted but that now life had parted our ways and it was goodbye forever . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  Now Pat may have been a lecher and a plug-ugly , but he was a good churchgoing Catholic and he loved his [WSD]little[/WSD] sister . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a younger sister
Sentence:  Those O'Dwyers had that Irish clannishness that made them stick together in spite of [WSD]politics[/WSD] and everything . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the opinion you hold with respect to political questions
Sentence:  Now it would be up to me to keep the [WSD]little[/WSD] girl out of mischief . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of children and animals) young, immature
Sentence:  All evening Eileen had been as demure as a [WSD]little[/WSD] girl getting ready for her first communion . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  Kenny Lane of Muskegon , Mich. , world 's seventh ranked lightweight , had [WSD]little[/WSD] trouble in taking a unanimous decision over Rip Randall of Tyler , Tex. , here Monday night . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
Sentence:  the other , a shallow concave gradient ( Fig. 1 ) , was produced with a so-called `` cone sphere '' apparatus , the `` cone '' being a 2 - [WSD]liter[/WSD] Erlenmeyer flask and the `` sphere , '' a 2 - liter round-bottom flask . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
Sentence:  the other , a shallow concave gradient ( Fig. 1 ) , was produced with a so-called `` cone sphere '' apparatus , the `` cone '' being a 2 - liter Erlenmeyer flask and the `` sphere , '' a 2 - [WSD]liter[/WSD] round-bottom flask . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
Sentence:  In the tintable group are high and [WSD]little[/WSD] heels , squared and oval throats , and shantung like textures . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  There are many [WSD]possibilities[/WSD] , including poor circulation , a variety of neurological conditions , and functional disorders . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
Sentence:  He wants to be called sweet , good , considerate and mother 's [WSD]little[/WSD] helper . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (of children and animals) young, immature
Sentence:  His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital - Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family - and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off , spend a lot of time in bed and , for the rest , do pretty much as he chose - provided , of course , he chose to do nothing too exciting or too [WSD]debilitating[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  impairing the strength and vitality
Sentence:  His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that , if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home , there was [WSD]little[/WSD] danger of his losing a term . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
Sentence:  Rachel was [WSD]polite[/WSD] , Scotty indifferent . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.
Sentence:  Since his seizure , Scotty had had [WSD]little[/WSD] appetite ; yet his changed appearance , surprisingly , was one of plumpness . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
Sentence:  Rachel had [WSD]little[/WSD] to say . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
Sentence:  She greeted her husband 's colleagues with smiling [WSD]politeness[/WSD] , offering nothing . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage
Sentence:  Virginia and Rachel talked to each other quietly now , as allies who are [WSD]political[/WSD] rather than natural might in a war atmosphere . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
Sentence:  He ate what he felt like , slept as much or as [WSD]little[/WSD] as he pleased , and moved about the draughty rooms of the house , when he was not in bed , with slow dubious steps , like an elderly tourist in a cathedral . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
Sentence:  He felt her [WSD]irritability[/WSD] did not concern him , yet he knew he would not care even if it did . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  an irritable petulant feeling
Sentence:  One of the most widespread features of contemporary thought is the almost universal disbelief in the [WSD]reality[/WSD] of spirit . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
Sentence:  In such a world the words `` matter '' and `` spirit '' both referred to directly known [WSD]realities[/WSD] in the common experience of all . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
Sentence:  In it important elements of Christianity and of the Biblical view of [WSD]reality[/WSD] in general , which now cause us much difficulty , could be responded to quite naturally and spontaneously . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
Sentence:  The progress of science over these last few centuries and the gradual replacement of Biblical by scientific categories of [WSD]reality[/WSD] have to a large extent emptied the spirit world of the entities which previously populated it . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
Sentence:  When , therefore , it turned its attention to the concrete entities with which popular imagination had peopled the world of spirit , these entities soon lost whatever status they had enjoyed as actual elements of external [WSD]reality[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
Sentence:  There is no framework or structure of thought with respect to which we can organize it and no part of [WSD]reality[/WSD] , as we know and apprehend it , with respect to which we can refer this experience . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
Sentence:  In a long commentary which he has inserted in the published text of the first act of the play , he says at one point : `` However , that experience never raised a doubt in his mind as to the [WSD]reality[/WSD] of the underworld or the existence of Lucifer 's many faced lieutenants . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the state of being actual or real
Sentence:  The [WSD]reality[/WSD] of spirit emerges in this play in spite of the author 's convictions to the contrary . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the state of being actual or real
Sentence:  Surely this is a [WSD]reality[/WSD] we all acknowledge . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
Sentence:  Yet it exists and has an objective [WSD]reality[/WSD] which can be experienced and known . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
Sentence:  In searching for clues which might lead us to a fresh apprehension of the [WSD]reality[/WSD] of spirit , the close connection between spirit and community is likely to prove the most fruitful . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
Sentence:  The most valuable player award was [WSD]split[/WSD] three ways , among Glen Mankowski , Gordon Hartweger and Tom Kieffer . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  separate into parts or portions
Sentence:  The boys had a tremendous respect for each other 's [WSD]ability[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
Sentence:  Kieffer , the only junior in the group , was commended for his [WSD]ability[/WSD] to hit in the clutch , as well as his all-round excellent play . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
Sentence:  Mays and Mantle , both 10 - year men at 30 , have so much [WSD]ability[/WSD] that , baseball men agree , they 've never hit the heights . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
Sentence:  Mantle , it 's apparent , resented Casey Stengel 's attempts to push and prod him into the perfection the veteran manager saw as a thrilling [WSD]possibility[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a future prospect or potential
Sentence:  First , there were those Congolese ( among them Joseph Kasavubu ) who favored [WSD]splitting[/WSD] the country into small independent states , Balkanizing it . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  separate into parts or portions
Sentence:  Another Virginia sight and a photographic adventure are the Luray Caverns , [WSD]lit[/WSD] by photofloodlights . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  make lighter or brighter
Sentence:  [WSD]Split[/WSD] badly during the recent presidential election into almost equally divided camps of party loyalists and independents , the Democratic party in Mississippi is currently a wreck . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  go one's own way; move apart
Sentence:  The uniform fiscal year [WSD]facilitates[/WSD] inter-town comparison of revenues and expenditures . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  make easier
Sentence:  The pain and distress associated with the performance may easily give the wife a deep-seated dread of marital relations and cause her , unconsciously , to make the sex act unpleasant and difficult for both by exercising her vaginal muscles to complicate his penetration instead of relaxing them to [WSD]facilitate[/WSD] it . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  make easier
Sentence:  Cigarette butts [WSD]littered[/WSD] the floor . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  strew
Sentence:  His face was [WSD]split[/WSD] by a vermilion streak , his eyes were pools of white ; jagged red and black medicine symbols covered his chest . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
Sentence:  Some gracefully soared from the backs of their wounded , screaming mounts to make one last defiant charge before the lead [WSD]split[/WSD] their hearts or tore their guts . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
Sentence:  The episode tended to confirm the U. S. belief that propaganda , the hope of one-sided concessions , and the chance to [WSD]split[/WSD] the Allies , rather than genuine negotiation , were the Soviet leader 's real aims in summitry . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
Sentence:  I walked to the right around it to buildings containing illuminated manuscripts and came to the Treasury , which houses such things as coffee cups covered with diamonds , jewelled swords , rifles [WSD]glittering[/WSD] with diamonds and huge divan-like thrones as large as small beds , on which the sultans sat cross-legged . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  be shiny, as if wet
Sentence:  However , because of Church laws , lately more stringently enforced , which forbid the marriage of cousins closely related consanguineously , a means of [WSD]facilitating[/WSD] the goal of in-group relations may be that of recourse to illegitimate unions . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  make easier
Sentence:  Communication may be [WSD]facilitated[/WSD] by means of the high visibility within the larger community . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  make easier
Sentence:  The English never again developed a strong native music that could [WSD]obliterate[/WSD] the traces of an earlier great age the way , say , the opera in Italy blotted out the Italian madrigal . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  remove completely from recognition or memory
Sentence:  Then , for the first time since his arrest , a glint of spirit [WSD]lit[/WSD] Barco 's eyes . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  make lighter or brighter
Sentence:  The bad luck that can so often mar a well-played round of golf is simply overpowered and [WSD]obliterated[/WSD] by the contemptuous boldness of these champions . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
Sentence:  It is a frightful myth that the love of beauty is only to be found in [WSD]leisured[/WSD], educated people. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Having leisure time.
Sentence:  “All right,” said Basil, rising also and seating himself in a [WSD]leisured[/WSD] way in an armchair. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Leisurely, filled with leisure.
Sentence:  Everything that Brinnin writes about is defunct. The big liners were killed, of course, by the jet plane, a device that condensed the [WSD]leisured[/WSD] misery of a five-day crossing into seven hours of concentrated nullity or wretchedness. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Leisurely, filled with leisure.
Sentence:  They had become a superior, [WSD]leisured[/WSD] caste. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Having leisure time.
Sentence:  While his career spanned a time when quintessential New York street photography was defined as swift, sharp and precise, Leiter's [WSD]leisured[/WSD], impressionist style went against the grain. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Leisurely, filled with leisure.
Sentence:  The space of ground taken up by a rich man's house is prodigious, the [WSD]turfed[/WSD] roof forming a small field. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Constructed from turf.
Sentence:  "Sure thing, I buffed her, and they [WSD]turfed[/WSD] her to urology, but she bounced back to me!" [...] They want to transfer responsibility for her to another branch of the hospital ([WSD]turf[/WSD] her). 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
Sentence:  For aviaries, I like them not, except they be of that largeness as they may be [WSD]turfed[/WSD], and have living plants and bushes set in them; that the birds may have more scope, and natural nestling, and that no foulness appear in the floor of the aviary. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Covered or adorned with turf or grass.
Sentence:  At the same time as College was being unceremoniously [WSD]turfed[/WSD] from their premises, a similar process was affecting the Estcourt School. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
Sentence:  3. The course should use a minimal amount of fairway area, rather than being completely [WSD]turfed[/WSD] from tee box to green. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Covered or adorned with turf or grass.
Sentence:  Mr. Rather flew to the area in a [WSD]roundabout[/WSD] fashion, first landing in Bahrain, from there flying to Islamabad and then heading to Kabul by land. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
Sentence:  As Washington "Post" columnist Eugene Robinson writes, "War in Libya is justifiable only if we are going to hold compliant dictators to the same standard we set for defiant ones." This line of argument has surfaced in nearly every debate about Western military intervention since the end of the Cold War. The British even have a term for it: [WSD]"whataboutery[/WSD]". If you are prepared to go to war to protect Libyan civilians from their government, then what about the persecuted in Bahrain? 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Protesting at inconsistency; refusing to act in one instance unless similar action is taken in other similar instances.
Sentence:  We'd had a couple of [WSD]knockabouts[/WSD] to help with the cooking and stockyard work. They were paid by the job. They were to stay at the camp for a week, to burn the gunyahs, knock down the yard, and blind the track as much as they could. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
Sentence:  And this also is when activists who advocate eco-friendly celebrations are countered with [WSD]whataboutery[/WSD] on crackers:“What about animal slaughter done by other religion?” “What about industrial pollution?” “Don't you pollute air by taking out your car?” “If you are talking against this you should also talk about that, otherwise you are biased,” etc. etc. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Protesting at inconsistency; refusing to act in one instance unless similar action is taken in other similar instances.
Sentence:  They are skilled in [WSD]whataboutery[/WSD]: the art of avoiding the issue. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Protesting at inconsistency; refusing to act in one instance unless similar action is taken in other similar instances.
Sentence:  Jesus tourned him [WSD]about[/WSD], and behelde her saynge: Doughter be off goode comforte, thy fayth hath made the safe. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To turn (oneself) around.
Sentence:  Meanwhile the Law, as usual, tumbles [WSD]arse about face[/WSD]: the killings multiply; the cops are clueless and duly arrest the wrong man. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  In a confused or haphazard manner.
Sentence:  In terms of dealing with the past, [WSD]whataboutery[/WSD] is premised on the denial of the truths of the 'other' as a way to highlight the innocence and moral integrity of one's own experiences. Previous commentaries on prospects for truth recovery in Northern Ireland have noted the concern that a formal truth process could become a forum for the institutionalisation of [WSD]whataboutery[/WSD] (McEvoy 2006). 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Protesting at hypocrisy; responding to criticism by accusing one's opponent of similar or worse faults.
Sentence:  But that's a dubious triumph: A book is a book and a movie is a movie, and whenever the latter merely [WSD]sets about[/WSD] illustrating the former, it's a failure of adaptation, to say nothing of imagination. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To initiate or begin some action.
Sentence:  The third sort is of those who readily and sincerely follow reason, but for want of having that which one may call a large, sound, [WSD]roundabout[/WSD] sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
Sentence:  ..And he's gone on a cruise he liked better than the one you'd have had him; but that's no matter; I had better have [WSD]gone north about[/WSD] twenty times over than come athwart you. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Dead, of sailor or seaman whose cause of death was anything except by drowning.
Sentence:  Marlene liked to [WSD]put herself about[/WSD]. She had been known to bestow her favours on allied servicemen in four different war zones on the same night. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To be sexually promiscuous.
Sentence:  The wind is [WSD]come about[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To change; to come round.
Sentence:  Although it has been [WSD]about[/WSD] for some time now, I like the typeface Sauna. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  In existence; being in evidence; apparent
Sentence:  The number of prairie dogs was absolutely astounding. ... Some of the bolder dogs—though in fact they are no dogs at all, but little marmots rather smaller than a rabbit—would sit yelping at us on the top of their mounds, jerking their tails emphatically with every shrill cry they uttered. As the danger grew nearer they would [WSD]wheel about[/WSD], toss their heels into the air, and dive in a twinkling down into their burrows. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl about.
Sentence:  “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours "are" pale blue, Eileen!—you're [WSD]about[/WSD] as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling "à la" Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.nb...” 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost. (First attested before 1150.<ref name=SOED/>)
Sentence:  And withal they learn to be idle, wandering [WSD]about[/WSD] from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down. (First attested before 1150.<ref name=SOED/>)
Sentence:  [...] At beating quarters up, or forage, / Behaved herself with matchless courage; / And [WSD]laid about[/WSD] in fight more busily / Than th' Amazonian Dame Penthesile. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To strike blows in all directions.
Sentence:  If wealth managers actually [WSD]knew beans about[/WSD] anything, they would be in asset management. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To know something, even if only a little, about.
Sentence:  A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you; but I will [WSD]go about[/WSD] with him. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To tackle (a problem or task).
Sentence:  Like we didn't move here for my job, we came here (for ...)<!--parentheses and ellipsis in original--> to become a student and study for a degree and it's [WSD]arse about face[/WSD]. We tend to do things in an arse-about-face way no matter how hard we try. And I, at the risk of being hopelessly inarticulate<!--[sic] would have expected a comma--> I like the [WSD]arse about face[/WSD]-ness of the LETS system. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Placed or arranged the opposite way to the way it should be.
Sentence:  We've been looking at it [WSD]arse about face[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  In a manner that is opposite to or the reverse of the way it should be, backwards.
Sentence:  And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day [WSD]about[/WSD] three thousand men. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost. (First attested before 1150.<ref name=SOED/>)
Sentence:  And Esther [WSD]put herself about[/WSD] to amuse him, showing him photograph-books and views of various sorts, adding a question or two from time to time, to find out how much he knew, and how well he had been taught. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To make a special effort; to exert oneself, or go out of one's way.
Sentence:  Use them to inpregnantsic a woman: muddle up past and future, in-breed across time-zones, turn the family tree into a tangled bush, roots and shoots all [WSD]arse about face[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Arranged in a confused or haphazard way; muddled.
Sentence:  To my mind, transportation engineering is similar to flying in the 1930s — it has been [WSD]about[/WSD] for some time but it has taken the present economic jolt to shake it out of its infancy, in the same way that the war started the development of flying to its current stage. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  In existence; being in evidence; apparent
Sentence:  We know a lot of people around us who would resort to [WSD]whataboutery[/WSD] or hypocrisy when it is upon them to take a stand. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Protesting at hypocrisy; responding to criticism by accusing one's opponent of similar or worse faults.
Sentence:  Someone blows a hole in the head of the owner a couple of places along the Gap and nobody seems to give a shit. Fucking [WSD]arse about face[/WSD] this fucking place. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Placed or arranged the opposite way to the way it should be.
Sentence:  We've got it so [WSD]arse about face[/WSD] in modern society. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Placed or arranged the opposite way to the way it should be.
Sentence:  His primary opponent, Raphael Herman, is a real estate salesman who frankly admits he [WSD]knows beans about[/WSD] insurance. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To know nothing, or almost nothing, about.
Sentence:  Nothing daunted, the fleet put to sea, and after sailing [WSD]about[/WSD] the island for some time, a landing was effected in the west of Munster. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.<ref name=SOED/>)
Sentence:  She didn't look up and Luke could see she [WSD]was all about[/WSD] the chips. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To love, to enjoy, to be interested in.
Sentence:  Criticism is stereotyped as 'civil servant bashing' or the weapon of [WSD]whataboutery[/WSD] is unsheathed: official statements accelerate about inefficient private sector management. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Protesting at hypocrisy; responding to criticism by accusing one's opponent of similar or worse faults.
Sentence:  Descartes is compelled to fall back upon a curious [WSD]roundabout[/WSD] argument to prove that there is a world. He must first prove that God exists, and then argue that God would not deceive us into thinking that it exists when it does not. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
Sentence:  Although unusual in the Dublin area, he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be [WSD]hanging about[/WSD] there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To linger, loiter, or stay.
Sentence:  The door being open, Stranleigh walked in unannounced. A two-seated [WSD]runabout[/WSD]...stood by the window, where it could be viewed by passers-by. Further down the room rested a chassis, ... 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Any of several small vehicles, especially a small motor car for use on short journeys.
Sentence:  The Virginia assembly in 1670 disfranchised most of the landless [WSD]knockabouts[/WSD], accusing them of “having little interest in the country” and causing “tumults at the election to the disturbance of his majesty's peace.” 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A person living in rough, violent conditions.
Sentence:  The stranger kept [WSD]hanging about[/WSD] just inside the inn door, peering round the corner like a cat waiting for a mouse. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To linger, loiter, or stay.
Sentence:  What will ye dine? I will go [WSD]thereabout[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  concerning that; about that
Sentence:  On better thoughts, and my urged reasons, / They are [WSD]come about[/WSD], and won to the true side. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To change; to come round.
Sentence:  As the noble Lord, Lord Tebbit, will know, we have in Northern Ireland what we have referred to over the years as "[WSD]whataboutery[/WSD]". When one talks about the atrocities of the IRA, someone from the other side will say, "Ah, but what about?" I have lived with that for 30 years in Northern Ireland. There is a lot of "[WSD]whataboutery[/WSD]". 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Protesting at hypocrisy; responding to criticism by accusing one's opponent of similar or worse faults.
Sentence:  They were much perplexed [WSD]thereabout[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  concerning that; about that
Sentence:  Didn't stop myself hissing that if Ayrs was 1⁄2 as good a husband as he was a manipulator and a larcenist of better men's ideas, his wife might not [WSD]put it about[/WSD] so much. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To be sexually promiscuous.
Sentence:  ‘Look, Mary. That chap is sitting [WSD]arse about face[/WSD]. He's having a laugh. He can't be serious.'<br />‘Don't be so critical, George. More than likely it's his first time on a horse.' 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  In a manner that is opposite to or the reverse of the way it should be, backwards.
Sentence:  The guests were mostly reformed drunks and [WSD]knockabouts[/WSD] who wanted to talk about their troubled trek through life 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A person living in rough, violent conditions.
Sentence:  "Really, Bill, I think your best plan would be to go straight to father and tell him the whole thing.—You don't want him to hear about it in a [WSD]roundabout[/WSD] way." 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
Sentence:  From what she knew, they were humble people on both sides, farmers and handymen and [WSD]knockabouts[/WSD] who followed the crops and their best chances state to state. Some worked in the quarries. Some worked in the mills. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
Sentence:  the object [WSD]whereabout[/WSD] they are conversant 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  About which; concerning which.
Sentence:  If you [WSD]hang about[/WSD] after the show, you can meet the cast. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To linger, loiter, or stay.
Sentence:  a mile [WSD]about[/WSD], and a third of a mile across 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; in circumference. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.<ref name=SOED/>)