Attila the Hun

Cultural  

1. A king of the Huns in the fifth century. Attila's forces overran many parts of central and eastern Europe. His armies were known for their cruelty and wholesale destruction, and Attila himself was called the “scourge of God.”

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Example Sentences

In AD 452, when Attila the Hun sacked city after city in his conquest of the known world, it was the Catholic Church, not the Roman military, that met him in a show of diplomacy.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Attila the Hun even appeared in one of Ms. Loeffler’s ads.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2020

A single song might refer to molecular biology and sulphurous farts, or zoom from a dwarf in the court of Attila the Hun to a distant star cluster.

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2019

Scott Boras, the Attila the Hun of agents who represents Bryant, railed that it was “ersatz baseball.”

From Forbes • Apr. 17, 2015

Some pair they made: Attila the Hun and Gracie the useless.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin