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Caligulan
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English
Alternative forms
en Caligulian Caligulean Caligularian<q:rare>
Etymology
From en Caligula an, en Caligula = 1 Roman Emperor 12 41 .
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Caligula (AD 12–41), Roman Emperor.
en transferred sense Brutally cruel and tyrannical.
en 2016 George F. Will The ‘big price’ Paul Ryan has paid for supporting Donald Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-big-price-paul-ryan-has-paid-for-supporting-donald-trump/2016/06/06/5c8f2f64-2c08-11e6-9b37-42985f6a265c_story.html w:The Washington Post The Caligulan malice with which Donald Trump administered Paul Ryan’s degradation is an object lesson in the price of abject capitulation to power.
en 2019-09-20 Derek Thompson WeWork and the Great Unicorn Delusion The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/unicorn-delusion/598465/ In many ways, the company’s four-week tailspin has been a one-of-a-kind spectacle. Documents filed in anticipation of its public offering revealed a pattern of behavior from its founder and chief executive, Adam Neumann, that fits somewhere on the spectrum between highly eccentric and vaguely Caligulan. https://web.archive.org/web/20260628063915/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/unicorn-delusion/598465/ 28 June 2026
Translations
pertaining to Caligula
French: fr caligulien
Polish: pl kaliguliczny
Anagrams
en aacgillnu calingula
en Roman Empire