reptilian

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Recent Examples of reptilian No actor has played him with as much reptilian cruelty and covetous flair as Andrew Scott, either. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024 But my brain is already starting to work again, in a kind of reptilian way. Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2024 In the years after that, Logan—whose intense, reptilian demeanor belies presidential aspirations—moved into the scripted battling of WWE. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024 Likes include chocolate, causing chaos, licking its chops with a long reptilian tongue, making Eddie’s non-Venom life hell, and eating scrumptious human brains. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for reptilian
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reptilian
Adjective
  • Body horror in all its repulsive forms crops up everywhere on Severance, because within Branch 501, one’s body is no longer their own — and that’s exactly how Lumon wants it.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Despite such repulsive assertions, Kingsley’s synthesis of scientific and theological thinking also led him to be one of the great Christian socialists of his day, advocating tirelessly for social reform, especially sanitation.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • How does this happen, no matter how revolting or nonsensical the trend can be?
    Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2022
  • These highly emotional sequences are less riveting and more revolting as they’re primarily used to add shock value, graphically depicting their triggering subject matter.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
Adjective
  • Continue reading … ‘PRO-CRIMINAL’ – Blue state sheriff unloads on 'disgusting' bill targeting the right to self-defense.
    Fox News, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • But there isn’t the shaming and the negativity, and the disgusting opinions of people that can barely dress themselves.
    Alison Edmond, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The term has been applied to other groups as well: Teachers, health care workers, government officials and public safety professionals may encounter mandates that threaten to compromise their values, witness morally repugnant behavior or become a victim of somebody else’s transgression.
    Christina Caron, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Actions mattered more than words, and Nuwan’s were as repugnant as elephant dung.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Needless to say, no one who has any standards whatsoever should want to have anything to do with these loathsome cretins.
    The Editors, National Review, 3 Mar. 2025
  • America was the future, and the future was loathsome.
    James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Can’t wait for the Stanley Cup window to close on Team Tank, easily the most detestable team in the League.
    Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The right invented the term Trump Derangement Syndrome to dismiss analysis of Trump’s autocratic tendencies, compulsive lying and generally detestable character as liberal hysteria.
    Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The basic problem with some conservatives' embrace of this man is that Andrew Tate is an abominable human being.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Essay The Agony and the Ecstasy of the West Edmonton Mall Max Fawcett On learning to love the abominable mix of Soviet brutalism and unrelenting American capitalism around which Edmonton revolves.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The booing at the mention of Huizenga’s name was so hateful that an embarrassed Marino had to beg it to stop.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
  • That a little rectangle of cardboard and paper and ink is no match for all the hateful rhetoric about books somehow hurting children.
    Sarah Hoffman and Ian Hoffman, TIME, 10 Mar. 2025

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“Reptilian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reptilian. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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