Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Exceedingly filthy from long neglect.
- adjective Requiring heroic efforts of cleaning or correction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Augeas or Augeias, one of the Argonauts, and afterward king of Elis, or resembling his stables; hence, very filthy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Class. Myth.) Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.
- adjective Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.
- adjective an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Augeas.
- adjective Hence, very
filthy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective extremely filthy from long neglect
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I mean, as regards what he called his Augean stables task? "
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The word "Augean" is sometimes used by itself, too -- it has come to mean "extremely difficult and usually distasteful."
Latest Articles 2010
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But when summoned to be a nettoyeur of Augean stables, he metes out justice like a Hollywood vigilante.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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Much like the Augean stables of old, however, there always seems to be more work for us to do in this regard.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [150] -- A Fortean Week Chris Weigant 2011
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But when summoned to be a nettoyeur of Augean stables, he metes out justice like a Hollywood vigilante.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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But when summoned to be a nettoyeur of Augean stables, he metes out justice like a Hollywood vigilante.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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Much like the Augean stables of old, however, there always seems to be more work for us to do in this regard.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [150] -- A Fortean Week Chris Weigant 2011
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The dual Augean tasks these conditions must accomplish will be to discourage perpetrators from domestic abuse and encourage victims to report assaults by shifting social and cultural norms.
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza: Troubled History of Domestic Violence Legislation in Pakistan Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2010
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You know, new broom sweeping clean, cleaning out the Augean stables, generally showing those people in Washington who was who and what was what - and how there was going to be a new boss, with new rules and expectations on behavior.
Hey, did you vote last November to end business as usual? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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But when summoned to be a nettoyeur of Augean stables, he metes out justice like a Hollywood vigilante.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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