Voldemortian
English
Etymology
Adjective
Voldemortian (comparative more Voldemortian, superlative most Voldemortian)
- Having similar traits to the fictional evil wizard Voldemort from the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling.
- 2007, Steven F. Lott, "Blunt Weapon", in It Came from Airport Security, Lulu.com (2007), →ISBN, page 40:
- A twenty-seven year-old screenwriter stepped up to the table. Josh reached into the carry on and pulled out a bottle containing an anti-psychotic medication.
- "Sorry, I have to confiscate this." He tossed it into the trash bin.
- Seven hours later, over the Pacific Ocean, the screenwriter would notice that his fellow passengers had begun to morph in a strangely Voldemortian way.
- "Snakes on the plane!" he would scream, "Snakes on the plane!"
- 2010, Boris Johnson, "General Election 2010: Gordon Brown is a goner - bring on Peter Mandelson", The Telegraph, 3 May 2010:
- There is one man whose reputation – amazingly – has been burnished by the disaster of the past few weeks; one man who is still sought after by society hostesses; one man whose every silken Voldemortian utterance is still taken down, with reverence, by the political journalists.
- 2011, Rebekah Denn, "Crisco is still a good thing, sometimes", The Seattle Times, 2 April 2011:
- As a vegetable product, it was favored as a healthier option than animal fats (a view that went downhill when transfats became viewed with Voldemortian horror, then flipped again when Crisco got a nearly transfat-free new formula.)
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Voldemortian.
- 2007, Steven F. Lott, "Blunt Weapon", in It Came from Airport Security, Lulu.com (2007), →ISBN, page 40: