- Look up
inappropriateness in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Inappropriateness refers to
standards or
ethics that are
typically viewed as
being negative...
- (top and
third row) and
distasteful Ithomiini (Nymphalidae,
second and
bottom row).
Mutual Müllerian
mimicry in
distasteful Heliconius butterflies. Plate...
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figurative method of
obscuring an act or
object considered embarr****ing or
distasteful with
something of
innocuous appearance. The use of an
actual fig leaf...
- modesty. Haya
encourages Muslims to
avoid anything considered to be
distasteful or abominable. Haya
plays an
important role in Islam, as it is one of...
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Batesian mimic of the
monarch butterfly, but
since the
viceroy is also
distasteful to predators, it is now
considered a Müllerian
mimic instead. The viceroy...
- "pretty stones" that they find by
digging in mud, thus
representing the
distasteful materialism and
ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence...
- such as bees; or,
again honestly, to warn off
other organisms, as when
distasteful animals use
warning coloration to
prevent attacks from
potential predators...
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thought to have
originated as a
warning signal that the
larvae were
distasteful. This
ability to
create light was then co-opted as a
mating signal and...
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Haunted are ****ual deviance, ****ual identity, desperation,
social distastefulness, disease, murder, death, and existentialism. The
synopsis on the dustjacket...
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others palatable. It
turns out that many
species of
insects are
toxic or
distasteful when they have fed on
plants that
contain chemicals of
particular classes...
