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Definition of scintilla in English: scintillanoun sɪnˈtɪləsɪnˈtɪlə A tiny trace or spark of a specified quality or feeling. 极少，微量 一点点怀疑。 Example sentencesExamples - But what was overwhelmingly obvious about the coverage was that a terrible family tragedy was being exploited, without a scintilla of compassion for communal loss, for the sole purpose of newspaper sales.
- While it was perfectly legitimate for the society to criticise the treatment choice there was not a scintilla of evidence to support their claim.
- Why do we buy into such hype, when everyone with a scintilla of intelligence understand there's no relationship between box office gross and motion picture quality?
- Regarding your high class comment about me in your May 19, 2004 posting, why don't you have a scintilla of honesty and print the attached story from the Boston Globe which sets the record straight.
- Even for a softcore sleaze tease like this, there is an appallingly distinct lack of intelligence all around, with not a scintilla of artistic integrity to be found in a single scene.
- Apart from squandering the resources of a prodigiously gifted cast, the film's greatest shortcoming must be its inability to generate the merest scintilla of dramatic tension around its central narrative thread.
- Now, there's been not a scintilla of evidence for that.
- None of them showed a scintilla of professional rivalry.
- Well, Larry, but it seems to be a scintilla of hope.
- Had there been even the slightest scintilla of evidence then she would have been charged.
- A scintilla of reasonable doubt might be expected about the efficacy and justice of a punishment now rejected by 71 countries.
- There was not a scintilla of substance in the reports as far as she knew.
- Why do people yearn so desperately to believe that there is some kind of incredible profusion of words for such things among hunter-gatherer peoples, when they have never been shown a single scintilla of quantitative evidence?
- There can be surely not a scintilla of doubt that the whole grisly situation is the very quintessence of irresponsibility.
- Out go the twitching nostrils, flailing arms and sniffy declamations about a cheeky scintilla of vanilla and oodles of gunsmoke.
- Maybe for a scintilla of time that is correct, but there is no reason to suppose in theory that the common law did not impose itself immediately in place of the system of enforcement which was theretofore available.
- In victory, they must hold on to at least a scintilla of humility, lest they get too cocky - and ripe for a takedown.
- My understanding from his interview was that he did show a scintilla of self-doubt, which is very helpful for the commission, because after all, they need to make recommendations.
- Without a scintilla of regret or moral thought, your party has embraced corporate crooks, polluters and other moral rot.
- If he and his handlers had a scintilla of good judgment, they would give up the fight and embrace her as a worthy member of the Western canon - which she is, despite what they say.
Synonyms particle, iota, jot, whit, atom, speck, bit, trace, ounce, shred, crumb, morsel, fragment, grain, drop, spot, mite, tittle, jot or tittle, modicum, hint, touch, suggestion, whisper, suspicion informal smidgen, smidge, tad Irish informal stim archaic scantling, scruple
OriginLate 17th century: from Latin. RhymesAnguilla, Aquila, Attila, Camilla, cedilla, chiller, chinchilla, driller, Drusilla, fibrillar, filler, flotilla, fulfiller, Godzilla, gorilla, griller, guerrilla, killer, Manila, manilla, mantilla, miller, pillar, Priscilla, sapodilla, sarsaparilla, Schiller, scilla, spiller, swiller, thriller, tiller, vanilla, vexilla, villa, Willa, willer, zorilla Definition of scintilla in US English: scintillanounsinˈtiləsɪnˈtɪlə A tiny trace or spark of a specified quality or feeling. 极少，微量 一点点怀疑。 Example sentencesExamples - None of them showed a scintilla of professional rivalry.
- Apart from squandering the resources of a prodigiously gifted cast, the film's greatest shortcoming must be its inability to generate the merest scintilla of dramatic tension around its central narrative thread.
- There was not a scintilla of substance in the reports as far as she knew.
- But what was overwhelmingly obvious about the coverage was that a terrible family tragedy was being exploited, without a scintilla of compassion for communal loss, for the sole purpose of newspaper sales.
- Regarding your high class comment about me in your May 19, 2004 posting, why don't you have a scintilla of honesty and print the attached story from the Boston Globe which sets the record straight.
- Why do we buy into such hype, when everyone with a scintilla of intelligence understand there's no relationship between box office gross and motion picture quality?
- Had there been even the slightest scintilla of evidence then she would have been charged.
- Without a scintilla of regret or moral thought, your party has embraced corporate crooks, polluters and other moral rot.
- Maybe for a scintilla of time that is correct, but there is no reason to suppose in theory that the common law did not impose itself immediately in place of the system of enforcement which was theretofore available.
- My understanding from his interview was that he did show a scintilla of self-doubt, which is very helpful for the commission, because after all, they need to make recommendations.
- Now, there's been not a scintilla of evidence for that.
- A scintilla of reasonable doubt might be expected about the efficacy and justice of a punishment now rejected by 71 countries.
- While it was perfectly legitimate for the society to criticise the treatment choice there was not a scintilla of evidence to support their claim.
- Out go the twitching nostrils, flailing arms and sniffy declamations about a cheeky scintilla of vanilla and oodles of gunsmoke.
- There can be surely not a scintilla of doubt that the whole grisly situation is the very quintessence of irresponsibility.
- If he and his handlers had a scintilla of good judgment, they would give up the fight and embrace her as a worthy member of the Western canon - which she is, despite what they say.
- Why do people yearn so desperately to believe that there is some kind of incredible profusion of words for such things among hunter-gatherer peoples, when they have never been shown a single scintilla of quantitative evidence?
- Well, Larry, but it seems to be a scintilla of hope.
- Even for a softcore sleaze tease like this, there is an appallingly distinct lack of intelligence all around, with not a scintilla of artistic integrity to be found in a single scene.
- In victory, they must hold on to at least a scintilla of humility, lest they get too cocky - and ripe for a takedown.
Synonyms particle, iota, jot, whit, atom, speck, bit, trace, ounce, shred, crumb, morsel, fragment, grain, drop, spot, mite, tittle, jot or tittle, modicum, hint, touch, suggestion, whisper, suspicion
OriginLate 17th century: from Latin. |