10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THERSITICAL»
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thersitical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words
"Gee whiz, your lectures are tenebrific, Professor! No — it's true, we all think so —
really tenebrific!" THERSITICAL a. <£ Abusive and foul-mouthed. "I'd sooner you
didn't bring the children this time, Gladys; if only I were as thersitical as they are ...
2
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke
He boasts to Richard Shackleton that he could (if he pleased) “shew how
excellent I was in the Thersitical way.”18 Thersites is the one-man chorus of
Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida who impartially denounces everyone he
meets.
I A. obscene, vulgar, coarse, gross, smutty, risque, in- I delicate, indecent,
improper, immodest, suggestive, I off-color, Inf. blue; lewd, salacious,
pornographic, I scatologic, SI. raunchy; scurrilous, ribald, abusive, blasphemous,
thersitical, ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
Even Robert Craft notes, with some regret, that 'Richard Taruskin, the meticulous
scholar I first met eight years ago and through correspondence came to know
and like, has lately turned into a sloppy, thersitical journalist, more judgmental
than ...
Allan B. Ho, Dmitry Feofanov
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The works of Laurence Sterne
And first, it may be said, there is a pelting kind of Thersitical satire, as black as the
very ink 'tis wrote with — (and by the bye, whoever says so, is indebted to the
Muster-master General of the Grecian army, for suffering the name of so ugly and
...
6
The Works of Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
... to answer them. And first, it may be said, there is a pelting kind of thersitical
satire, as black as the very ink 'tis wrote with (and by the bye, whoever says so, is
indebted to the muster- master general of the Grecian army, for suffering the 254
...
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The Dimwit's Dictionary: More Than 5,000 Overused Words and ...
... aver; avow; declare; pledge; promise; swear; testify; vow; warrant. swear like a
sailor (trooper) An insipid simile. abusive; blackguardly; coarse; crude;
fescennine; foul-mouthed; indecent; lewd; obscene; profane; ribald; scurrilous;
thersitical; ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2006
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Works of Laurence Sterne
And first, it may be said, there is a pelting kind of Thersitical satire, as black as the
very ink 'tis wrote with — (and by the bye, whoever says so, is indebted to the
Muster-master General of the Grecian army, for suffering the name of so ugly and
...
9
The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. ...
... and I assure you, that if I had the least time to spare, I would search your favour
, and would certainly find something which I would take SanvafiXv 1AA, and
afford me a subject very proper to shew how excellent I was in the Thersitical way
.
Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels, 2014
10
The Orthodox Presbyterian Theological Review and Missionary ...
Another instance of similar disingenuous- ness occurs in page 473, where he
labours to shew that my exposure of the " Thersitical " boasting of what " the
faction " in the Established Church would do is perfectly ridiculous, because their
...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THERSITICAL»
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thersitical is used in the context of the following news items.
Nicholas Spice
Others have seen it as a diseased farce, a bilious Thersitical outpouring, soured by a deep-seated misogyny. I think it is both these things and more, all at the ... «London Review of Books, Jan 09»
