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[ dez-duh-moh-nuh ] / ˌdɛz dəˈmoʊ nə /
noun(in Shakespeare's Othello) Othello's wife, murdered by her husband as a result of jealousy instilled by Iago. Words nearby Desdemonadescriptive statistics, descriptivism, descriptivist, descriptor, descry, Desdemona, desecrate, desecration, deseed, desegregate, desegregation Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for DesdemonaMaggie Smith was Desdemona, the victim of circumstance, in the 1965 Othello adaptation. Shakespeare’s Movie Magic|Marina Watts, Malcolm Jones|April 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST So let us be, with our Desdemona of rights, unlike Othello “that loved not wisely, but too well.” P.J. O’Rourke: Who Really Actually Wants This Bill of Rights?|P. J. O’Rourke|April 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST Desdemona, providentially finding employment at a Detroit mosque, witnesses the founding of the Nation of Islam. American Dreams: “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides|Nathaniel Rich|November 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST Their hit song, "Desdemona," was famously banned by the BBC thanks to Bolan's lyric, Lift up your Skirt and Fly. 'T-Rex' Will Never Be Extinct|Simon Doonan|August 13, 2010|DAILY BEAST
I make no doubt Othello was quite right, and Desdemona was no better than she should be. Ernest Maltravers, Complete|Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is a serious matter, and if we do not want to play the Desdemona act we must take some timely precautions. Desdemona would have found him out if she had lived, you know. Heartbreak House|George Bernard Shaw His poor mother gazed at him with extravagant envy and, like Desdemona, wished heaven had made her such a man. The Real Thing and Other Tales|Henry James The Seraph had turned fatalist and was being squeezed nearer and nearer the "Desdemona." The Sixth Sense|Stephen McKenna
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