And first, it may be said, there is a pelting kind of thersitical satire, as black as the very ink ’tis wrote with — (and by the bye, whoever says so, is indebted to the muster-master general of the Grecian army, for suffering the name of so ugly and foul-mouth’d a man as Thersites to continue upon his roll — for it has furnish’d him with an epithet) — in these productions he will urge, all the personal washings and scrubbings upon earth do a sinking genius no sort of good — but just the contrary, inasmuch as the dirtier the fellow is, the better generally he succeeds in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
"As these thersitical traducers are no doubt aware, I am not without resources. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
Abecedarian insult: "Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning, zoophyte!". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference
"ABECEDARIAN INSULT, AN - 'Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facilinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic napform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte.'. From Wordnik.com. [Market Manila] Reference
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