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单词 snopes
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Snopesn.

/ˈsnəʊps/
Forms: also snopes, plural (erron.) Snopes.
Etymology: < the family name Snopes, a series of vicious characters in the fiction of William Faulkner (first described in Sartoris, 1929).
Used as a type of an unscrupulous or heartless person.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > callousness or hard-heartedness > person
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Snopes1962
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > lack of scruple > unscrupulous or unprincipled person
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Snopes1962
1962 Guardian 3 Oct. 1/6 There are plenty of snopes waiting to take over and act as though Mr Meredith has never been.
1970 Times 10 Apr. 10 In the heated circumstances of the present Mr. Nixon would be joining the yahoos and the snopes.
1977 Time 17 Oct. 48/2 His brother, the Snopes in the woodpile, satirizes the theme by assuming the very worst of the American people and braying at them.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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