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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 ...
crooked / ˈ k r ʊ k t / verb I crooked my arm to show the sleeve. / ˈ k r ʊ k ɪ d / adjective Unfortunately, that just made the sleeve look crooked. decrease / d ɪ ˈ k r iː s / verb To lessen / ˈ d iː k r iː s / noun A diminution defense / d ɪ ˈ f ɛ n s / noun The attorney gave a strong defense. / ˈ d iː f ɛ n s / noun The ...
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
The Sanskrit word mleccha does not have a standard Indo-European etymology and has no counterpart in Iranian languages. [14] It is composed of two roots Mala (filth/impurity) and Ichha (desire) referring to the one who loves filth, probably referring to the Non Vedic lifestyle of foreigners which Indo Aryans considered as impure and filthy.
Crooked may refer to: Crooked Creek (disambiguation) Crooked Island (disambiguation) Crooked Lake (disambiguation) Crooked River (disambiguation) Crooked Harbour, Hong Kong; Crooked Forest, West Pomerania, Poland; Crooked Bridge, a railroad bridge in Saskatchewan, Canada; Crooked Media, an American left-wing political media company
However, older English exonyms are sometimes used in certain contexts, for example: Peking (Beijing; duck, opera, etc.), Tsingtao (Qingdao), and Canton (Guangdong). In some cases the traditional English exonym is based on a local Chinese variety instead of Mandarin, in the case of Xiamen, where the name Amoy is closer to the Hokkien pronunciation.
Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.
The term is generally used by critics of a national government. It has been used variously in the past to describe the Russian government under Boris Yeltsin and later, under Vladimir Putin, [10] the government of Egypt under Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, [11] governments in sub-Saharan Africa, [12] the government of the Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte, [13] and the governments under some United ...