Kinsey

[ kin-zee ]

/ ˈkɪn zi /

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noun

Alfred Charles, 1894–1956, U.S. zoologist; directed studies of human sexual behavior.

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Words nearby Kinsey

kino gum, Kinross, Kinross-shire, kin selection, Kinsella, Kinsey, Kinsey, Alfred, kinsfolk, Kinshasa, kinship, kinsman

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How to use Kinsey in a sentence

Kinsey is re-examining how he weighs risk this upcoming school year after his family’s battle with the virus.
They’re called mild cases. But people with breakthrough covid can still feel pretty sick.|Fenit Nirappil|August 31, 2021|Washington Post
For nearly a week, Kinsey felt like he had been “run over by a truck.”
They’re called mild cases. But people with breakthrough covid can still feel pretty sick.|Fenit Nirappil|August 31, 2021|Washington Post
“We wanted to do something sustainable to promote change and inclusion in wine,” Stevenson told me in a Zoom call that included Mitchelson, Kinsey and Marlen Porter.
Two new wine clubs give diversity and inclusion the same attention as what’s in the bottle|Dave McIntyre|April 2, 2021|Washington Post
The nonprofit club is an educational partner of the Kinsey Collection, so subscribers will also receive “educational assets above and beyond the wine and tasting notes,” Kinsey says.
Two new wine clubs give diversity and inclusion the same attention as what’s in the bottle|Dave McIntyre|April 2, 2021|Washington Post

This may explain the Kinsey finding that “generally, only partnered activities were linked to improvements.”
Sexless in the City - Facts So Romantic|Anastasia Bendebury & Michael Shilo DeLay|August 11, 2020|Nautilus
Like a Kinsey Report for the big-data era, there's a gold mine of findings here to titter about.
Heartache by the Numbers and OkCupid’s Founder Has Got Yours|Will Doig|October 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It reads more like a historical document, the Kinsey report on the sex lives of the rich and famous.
Confessions of a Sex Escort to the Stars: Scotty Bowers’s Memoir, ‘Full Service’|Ramin Setoodeh|February 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The hero is one Kinsey Millhone, who sounds less like a private eye than a natural-gas concern.
Do I Have to Read Sue Grafton?|William Boot|December 21, 2009|DAILY BEAST
It is called The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, by the distinguished gay member of the Kinsey Institute, Dr. C. A. Tripp.
Yale's Conspiracy of Silence|Larry Kramer|April 24, 2009|DAILY BEAST
In his 1953 report, Alfred Kinsey found that younger married couples had sex about twice a week.
Why Are Christians Having Better Sex Than the Rest of Us?|Tucker Carlson|November 25, 2008|DAILY BEAST
He went through the Kinsey books and absorbed a lot of data and graphs and figures on human behavior that meant nothing to him.
The Fourth R|George Oliver Smith
In the clinical history of the disease there are, according to Mr. Kinsey, four stages.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882|Various
In trying to bring Captain Kinsey off the field, young Overdoff was killed, shot through the head.
In The Ranks|R. E. McBride
Near home, there was a store kept by Mr. Kinsey, in copartnership with Mr. Pusey.
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831|Various
We've been saving our money this ever so long, and Mrs. Kinsey bought it for us.
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe|Amanda Minnie Douglas

British Dictionary definitions for Kinsey

Kinsey

/ (ˈkɪnzɪ) /

noun

Alfred Charles. 1894–1956, US zoologist, who directed a survey of human sexual behaviour

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Scientific definitions for Kinsey

Kinsey

[ kĭn′zē ]

Alfred Charles 1894-1956

American biologist and zoologist noted for his studies of human sexuality. He published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948 and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female in 1953 (commonly known as the Kinsey reports), based on interviews with 18,500 Americans about their sexual practices. The reports revealed a greater variety of sexual behavior than had previously been suspected and received widespread attention in the scientific community and among the general public. The reports have been criticized for their statistical limitations and especially for the restricted nature of the sample, consisting almost exclusively of white, middle-class men and women, primarily under age 35.