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Augean

adjective
1.
Extremely filthy from long neglect.



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... demanded. Here, Samson-like, he tore the Numean lion jaw from jaw, his knee sunk in the shaggy chest, his shoulders ripped to the bone as the hooked claws gripped the muscles, his mighty torso a dripping crimson in the scheme of colour. There he cleansed the Augean stable in a faithfulness of detail more admirable in its approach to nature than its appeal to the sensibilities, the artist having left nothing to the imagination; beyond was the more human note, and Omphale bound him to ...
— The Justice of the King • Hamilton Drummond


Words linked to "Augean" :   dirty, Augeas, Augean stables, unclean, soiled


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