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US
/ɪksˈpɹɛst/
]
[ UK /ɛkspɹˈɛst/ ]
[ UK /ɛkspɹˈɛst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication
she made her wishes explicit
explicit instructions
explicit sexual scenes -
communicated in words
frequently uttered sentiments
How To Use expressed In A Sentence
- Tranmere played with a good deal more enthusiasm as the evening wore on, suggesting that Aldridge had expressed - presumably in an indelicate fashion - his sense of displeasure during the recess.
- These provisions, although expressed at a level of great generality, have often been invoked by those who posit the existence of a broad international duty to cooperate or a right to solidarity.
- I guess she would rather I expressed myself in a more ladylike manner, or at least a little more eloquently.
- Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.
- The value of the coffee becomes significantly higher when expressed in foreign currency.
- He expressed his racial hatred for everyone, especially OBama making veiled death threats, spoke of other dangerous topics etc … and then offered to sell me a mosser rifle as he was buying a a whole shippment of them. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
- Reliable information indicated that even the staff of the department expressed their bewilderment at some decisions that were taken with respect to the event.
- There are three degrees of intimacy between words, of which the first and loosest is expressed by their mere juxtaposition as separate words, the second by their being hyphened, and the third or closest by their being written continuously as one word. Hyphens.
- The hostage-takers Bowden spoke with expressed little regret at their seizure of the embassy, but most, like Mirdamadi, lamented the role they played in cementing the repressive rule of the clerics. Into the Den of Spies
- Incommon law countries such as Canada, thetest of criminalliabilityis expressed by theLatinphrase, actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea, which means that “the act does not make a person guilty unless the mind is also guilty”. Man Not Criminally Responsible for Greyhound Bus Beheading; Victim’s Family Call for Punishment : Law is Cool