Jukes

[ jooks ]

noun

1. the fictitious name of an actual family that was the focus of a 19th-century sociological study of the inheritance of feeble-mindedness and its correlation with social degeneracy.

Example Sentences

Peter Jukes on the reclusive man who now has been accused of choking his wife in public.

From The Daily Beast

Peter Jukes on Fleet Street, where no good deed goes unpunished.

From The Daily Beast

Peter Jukes on the latest embarrassment for Murdoch and Cameron.

From The Daily Beast

Peter Jukes on the growing fiasco—and how it could affect The New York Times.

From The Daily Beast

Peter Jukes reports on the explosive allegations—and why inquiries a few years ago were killed.

From The Daily Beast

The apparatus goes by the name of Jukes' Patent, and has been in constant use for over twenty years.

From Project Gutenberg

In the panic Mr. Jukes son Tom, who was the apple of the ship-owning millionaires eye, was lost.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. Jukes knew the meaning of that harsh and rabid summons.

From Project Gutenberg

This makes me a little sceptical whether Ramsay, Jukes, etc., are not a little overdoing sub-aerial denudation.

From Project Gutenberg

Cousin marriage has also been frequent in the middle western counterpart of the Jukes, the "Tribe of Ishmael."

From Project Gutenberg