| 单词 | public menace |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspublic menace public menace n. †(a) a threat made in public (obsolete); (b) a person or thing considered a threat or annoyance to the community, a public enemy. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > cause of annoyance or vexation > one who or that which annoys > which annoys the community public nuisance1638 public menace1683 1683 tr. Eusebius Eccl. Hist. vii. xi. 123 What patient sufferance of publick menaces, of exclamations against us, and of perils, and of persecutions. 1763 J. Johnson New & Royal Eng. Universal Dict. I. Denunciation, the act of denuncing; a public menace. 1877 Decatur (Illinois) Republican 16 Feb. 2/3 He is now standing up, not for Tilden, whose rule would be a public menace, but for ‘ten thousand voters of Louisiana against four rascals’. 1888 Cent. Mag. July 413/1 The Ministry..shrank from war, but..desired to reap all the advantages of a public menace, even while privately disclaiming one. 1926 Amer. Mercury Apr. 501/2 Milton..was subsequently clapped into the hoosegow as a public menace. 2003 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 22 June 23 Dudley has graduated from being a spoilt brat to a full-blooded public menace whose gang beats up weaker children for the fun of it. < as lemmas |
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