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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.
U.S. professional wrestler Mike Rotunda, using the ring name Irwin R. Schyster (abbreviated to "I.R.S.") portrayed a dishonest tax collector and accountant.; Sylvester Shyster, a Walt Disney cartoon character introduced in 1930, is a disbarred attorney who schemes to deprive Minnie Mouse of her inheritance; and in many comic serials by Floyd Gottfredson (his creator) he appeared scheming with ...
Terrible, The Terrible, Le Terrible or El Terrible may refer to: Ships. HMS Terrible, eight British Royal Navy ships; French ship Le Terrible, sixteen ships of the ...
The Terrible or el Terrible is an epithet applied to: Afonso de Albuquerque (c. 1453–1515), Portuguese general, admiral and empire builder; Ants Kaljurand (1917–1951), Estonian anti-Soviet guerrilla fighter; Charles the Bold (1433–1477), last Valois Duke of Burgundy; John III the Terrible (1521–1574), Voivode of Moldavia
The English word terrible is usually used to translate the Russian word grozny (грозный) in Ivan's epithet, but this is a somewhat archaic translation. The Russian word grozny reflects the older English usage of terrible as in "inspiring fear or terror; dangerous; powerful" (i.e., similar to modern English terrifying or formidable).
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 ...
Use of the adjective bloody as a profane intensifier predates the 18th century. Its ultimate origin is unclear, and several hypotheses have been suggested. It may be a direct loan of Dutch bloote, (modern spelling blote) meaning entire, complete or pure, which was suggested by Ker (1837) to have been "transformed into bloody, in the consequently absurd phrases of bloody good, bloody bad ...
Enfant terrible or Enfant Terrible may refer to: Enfant terrible (folklore) , an African mythological character Enfant Terrible (film) , a 2020 German drama film