hermaphroditical

[her-maf-ruh-dit-ik-uhl]

adjective

1. hermaphroditic.

Example Sentences

Jefferson's allies called Adams "a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman."

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As far back as the campaign of 1800 — the first contested presidential race in U.S. history — pamphlets circulated that accused John Adams of possessing “a hideous hermaphroditical character,” which was a suggestion that he had the sex organs of both a man and a woman.

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During the presidential campaign of 1800, for instance, President John Adams was branded a “hideous hermaphroditical character” — a mix of man and woman — by allies of Thomas Jefferson.

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Consider the election of 1800, when the campaigns of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson traded accusations that one had a “hideous hermaphroditical character” and the other was “the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.”

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Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton may have traded barbs about the extent to which the other is being open about their health, but these exchanges have been tame compared with the presidential election of 1800, when Jefferson’s camp accused John Adams of having a “hideous hermaphroditical character” and Adams’s lot spread a rumour that Jefferson was in fact dead.

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