Caligulan
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Caligula + -an, named after Roman Emperor Caligula (12 CE–41 CE).
Adjective[edit]
Caligulan (comparative more Caligulan, superlative most Caligulan)
- Of or pertaining to Caligula (AD 12–41), Roman Emperor.
- (transferred sense) Brutally cruel and tyrannical.
- 2016, George F. Will, “The ‘big price’ Paul Ryan has paid for supporting Donald Trump”, in The Washington Post:
- The Caligulan malice with which Donald Trump administered Paul Ryan’s degradation is an object lesson in the price of abject capitulation to power.
- 2019 September 20, Derek Thompson, “WeWork and the Great Unicorn Delusion”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- In many ways, the company’s four-week tailspin has been a one-of-a-kind spectacle. Documents filed in anticipation of its public offering revealed a pattern of behavior from its founder and chief executive, Adam Neumann, that fits somewhere on the spectrum between highly eccentric and vaguely Caligulan.
Translations[edit]
pertaining to Caligula
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