Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or affected with syphilis.
- noun A person affected with syphilis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who suffers from syphilis.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of syphilis; affected with syphilis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to syphilis; of the nature of syphilis; affected with syphilis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective pathology Of, relating to, or infected with
syphilis . - noun One who is infected with syphilis.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or infected with syphilis
- noun a person suffering from syphilis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We went to the Broadway side, where I held open one of the boxes while Ms. Hirsch used her iPhone to document its syphilitic contents.
Much Ado About Boxes Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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So I'm all okay with him staying studmuffin and not gross ulcer on his leg or syphilitic.
Requiem for a Queen grrm 2010
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Something pooled green and ugly by our feet like syphilitic pus.
Brokedown on I55 Joshua Moses 2011
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One Hawaiian activist has termed Cook a "syphilitic, tubercular racist" and declared it a point of pride that the captain didn't leave Hawaiian shores alive.
An Interview with Tony Horowitz, author of Blue Latitudes 2010
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It was an expensive and strangely obscure institution, named for its syphilitic Whig founder, but we often called it, with what we considered a certain panache, the Mediocre University at New York City.
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Maybe one or both of them is a cyborg recounting the meandering life of some long-dead syphilitic galley slave.
Matthew Yglesias » Predictions Are Hard, Especially About the Future 2010
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The black nose, the Jewish nose, the Irish nose, the Italian nose, the syphilitic nose.
The Adults Alison Espach 2011
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He had wives who worshiped him and then left him, only to defend him later; his children speculated that he was either syphilitic or manic-depressive, and then they continued his work.
Thinking Inside the Box Henry Allen 2011
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Doktor Faustus by Thomas Mann Mann's version of this much-imitated tale features a syphilitic composer called Adrian Leverkühn, who agrees a pact with Mephistopheles that guarantees him years of brilliance and musical creativity.
Ten of the best 2011
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-- “Addled, syphilitic”: probably pretty accurate, actually.
chained_bear commented on the word syphilitic
Such a pretty word, it's a shame the meaning isn't pretty at all...
May 7, 2008