Thersites
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The “scabrous” Thersites in Troilus and Cressida speaks with relentless, scene-stealing venom.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2017
Whatever his source, he found in Thersites an ideal foil to the great lords of “Troilus and Cressida,” his deeply satiric, nearly parodic remake of the Trojan War story.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2016
In Troilus and Cressida, the strangely comic character Thersites announces Ajax by saying “for, whosoever you take him to be, he is Ajax.”
From Time ● Sep. 20, 2013
In 1981 Jonathan Miller let him loose on the role of Thersites in his Troilus and Cressida for the BBC.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2010
Conán Maol MacMorna, the Gaelic Thersites, always railing, causing trouble, unpopular, and attracting attention.
From Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland by Jeremiah Curtin
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