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Synonyms for leaky

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for leaky

permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases

Antonyms

used informally

Related Words

prone to communicate confidential information

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While technology will not solve the problems driving refugees to seek a better life, it can provide ways to channel them towards official crossing points by sealing off leakier areas, and helping to identify those who might pose real threats.
Gibraltar netted at Hampden and in Warsaw and are 13-5 with sportingbet to score against a side whose defence at times is leakier than a 5p polybag.
As for the new swing producer, the US has a much slower (and leakier) reaction function relative to that of Saudi Arabia and Opec.
Buildings with larger temperature variations and cold floors during winter were much leakier and had a higher air-change rate [n.sub.50] (p = 0.036) and larger energy consumption (p = 0.047) than buildings with no occupants' complaints.
The leakier the home, the more energy it uses, the more issues it has with Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and the greater maintenance required,” states Tobias Torjusen of Coastal Energy Advisor.
"The more creative achievements people reported, the leakier was their sensory gating, early in the processing stream with meaningless stimuli and no task goals," Zabelina and her colleagues wrote.
In older people, the blood-brain barrier is leakier (indicated by green and yellow) in the hippocampus than it is in younger people.
In the cancer cells angiogenesis the MJ and the MDJ provoked an increase capillary budding, but the cancer originated vessels were leakier and less organized than the corresponding controls, showing an inefficient blood network that was incapable to perform the tumor nutrition and quickly led to cell death and following tumor disappearing.
Defensively, Don Pellum's unit is leakier than Edward Snowden.
This season Luna and Bertrand have played in a generally stronger backline, while Bennett was part of a leakier rearguard last campaign.
The disrupted bacterial processes, on the other hand, don't kill the cell, but further weaken its outer membrane, making it leakier and allowing antibiotics to enter the cell.
Despite this the Birmingham Labour group, with its 77 councillors, is leakier than a sieve and word gradually got out.
Indeed three are leakier than the GSA target and can be considered leaky.
Indeed, with games against Everton, Norwich and then fellow top flight strugglers Reading and an even leakier defensive side in Aston Villa to round off January, the striker said: "The best thing is we are still scoring goals.