Thersites

[ ther-sahy-teez ]

/ θərˈsaɪ tiz /

noun

(in the Iliad) a Greek who accused Agamemnon of greed and Achilles of cowardice during the Trojan War.

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Examples from the Web for thersites

All this was well enough; but Looe had a Thersites in its camp.
Merry-Garden and Other Stories|Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
But, in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire.
The Oxford Book of American Essays|Various
The alphabet which writes the name of Thersites, blackguard, squalidity, refuses her letters for him.
Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture;|William Gannaway Brownlow
Thersites, the ugliest of mortals, chose the form of an ape.
The Phantom World|Augustin Calmet

He was but a little mongrel, yet with the frame of a Thersites he had the soul of an Achilles.
My Private Menagerie|Theophile Gautier

British Dictionary definitions for thersites

Thersites

/ (θəˈsaɪtiːz) /

noun

the ugliest and most evil-tongued fighter on the Greek side in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles when he mocked him

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