Harpies

1. Vicious winged beings in classical mythology , often depicted as birds with women's faces. In the story of Jason , they steal or spoil an old blind man's food, leaving a terrible odor behind them.

Example Sentences

They'll be tired of liberal harpies after eight years of a Democratic administration.

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When Michael needed fresh supplies, he was not long in gathering a gang of harpies about him.

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Boatmen and the amphibious harpies who prey upon the traveller reaped a copper and silver harvest of great weight.

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All this was very true; but the greatest part, Grotius said, remained in the hands of harpies.

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And perhaps, if the servants were to be called Harpies, your father would engage the next one himself.

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A righteous retribution seems to have doomed a race of harpies to extinction.

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