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Harpy – ugly winged bird woman, steals food Aello – name meaning "storm" Ocypete – name meaning "swift wing" Celaeno – name meaning "the dark one" Podarge – name meaning "fleet-footed" Horus (Ancient Egyptian) – deity; Inmyeonjo – bird with a human face; Itsumade – monstrous bird with a human face
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Crone: [7] An ugly or witch-like old woman. Curmudgeon : [ 13 ] An ill-tempered, grumpy or surly old man (although the term is most often applied to old men, it can be used more broadly: for example, in the 2008 film Marley & Me , John Grogan , a forty-year-old man, is called a curmudgeon for complaining about the prevalence of aesthetically ...
Buildworld curated a long list of buildings from around the world, the UK, and the U.S. that are often said to be ugly. We identified all the design-themed tweets about these buildings on Twitter.
Grotesque studies, Michelangelo Since at least the 18th century (in French and German, as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
"Twenty-Four Word Notes" (2004) is reprinted from the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus. "Borges on the Couch" (2004) is a mostly negative review of Edwin Williamson's Borges: A Life for the New York Times Book Review, arguing that Williamson incorrectly emphasizes the effect of Jorge Luis Borges' personal life and character on his stories.
The following is a list of terms, used to describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities.