单词 | hun-like |
释义 | > as lemmasˈHun-like ˈHun-like adj. resembling or characteristic of a Hun (sense A. 1a); brutal, savage, destructive. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > vandalizing or iconoclastic iconoclastic1640 Vandalic1667 iconoclast1685 Vandal1700 vandalizing1805 Hun-like1830 vandalish1834 idoloclastic1851 vandalistic1854 biblioclastic1887 1830 G. P. R. James De L'Orme III. x. 205 The number which his most Hunlike Majesty thought he could promise was about three hundred men. 1865 J. Ballantine Poems 139 A thousand Hun-like hands are On her Ark of glory. 1920 E. T. McCarthy Further Incidents Life Mining Engineer xxxix. 307 The Japanese, in adopting the German military system for their army, had absorbed their Hun-like ways. 2003 J. L. Hevia Eng. Lessons vi. 180 Brutish barbarians bent on Hun-like pillage. < as lemmas |
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