Tartarean
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Tartarean
1615–25; < Latin Tartare ( us ) of Tartarus ( see -eous) + -an
Example Sentences
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James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork.
From Time Magazine Archive
We stand before it like Sisyphus before the great rock which he rolled so laboriously and so vainly up that Tartarean hill.
From A Comparative Study of the Negro Problem The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 4 by Cook, Charles C.
At night it is customary, a work of darkness which lights up the dark, picturesque, magnificent, with a fitness Tartarean and diabolic.
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Kingsley, Charles
The Mucone has always been known as a ferocious and pitiless torrent, and maintains to this day its Tartarean reputation.
From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman
I cast thee down, O Tartarean boor, into the infernal kitchen!...
From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson
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