Kinsey

[ kin-zee ]

/ ˈkɪn zi /

noun

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

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Like a Kinsey Report for the big-data era, there's a gold mine of findings here to titter about.
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It reads more like a historical document, the Kinsey report on the sex lives of the rich and famous.
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The hero is one Kinsey Millhone, who sounds less like a private eye than a natural-gas concern.
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In the clinical history of the disease there are, according to Mr. Kinsey, four stages.
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Near home, there was a store kept by Mr. Kinsey, in copartnership with Mr. Pusey.
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831|Various
There's Maples and Schirmer and a couple o' fellows on the Kinsey business.
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This is a respectable neighborhood, and I'm not answering any Kinsey report, understand?
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Captain Kinsey, of Company C, was severely wounded, and never returned.
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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.

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