Cruella

English Etymology After the fictional character Cruella de Vil (a pun on the words en cruel and en devil); from en <alt:cruel> a<pos:forming female names>. Noun en colloquial A cruel, despicable, or otherwise unpleasant woman. en w:Congressional Record 155, part 1 Washington, D.C. United States Government Printing Office 22 January 2009 1403 2 But I am left to wonder, what kind of a government, what kind of a Cruella, could cut retirement benefits to a group of Eskimos in their eighties, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, and say: Sorry, there is nothing we can do. en Gabriela Cora ExecutiveHealth.com’s Leading Under Pressure: Strategies to Avoid Burnout, Increase Energy, and Improve Your Well-Being Pompton Plains, N.J. Career Press 2010 109–110 978-1-60163-128-2 One person may be a refined aristocrat in a social setting, and switch to a Cruella at the steering wheel. If you believe you are in good shape and find yourself snapping at others with less power than yourself, watch out, as your emotional stability may only be a façade. en Charles Decker; Gene Ference Priceless: Beyond Customer Care to Customer Delight Bloomington, Ind. w:iUniverse 2014 978-1-4917-5242-5 Ari immediately liked this woman he had heard about for more than a year. She didn’t seem like a Cruella at all. en Deanna K Willmon Negatively Ever After: A Skeptic’s Guide to Finding Happiness Berkeley, Calif. She Writes Press 2017 978-1-63152-312-0 This is not to say that I’m advocating using negativity to make others miserable. (No one likes a Cruella.) en Kate Kulniece WED THE HELL?! My uncle’s girlfriend wore a white gown with a TRAIN to my sister’s wedding – she’s an attention seeking Cruella The Sun https://web.archive.org/web/20220503153211/https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/18447412/wedding-guest-white-bride-dress/ 3 May 2022 London News Group Newspapers 0307-2681 1 en Teresa A. Deygoo Moving Forward A Corporate Psychopath: Tactics Used to Destroy Good Workers Altona, Man. FriesenPress 2023 131 978-1-03-919029-0 There are Cruellas out there and should any new recruits have the misfortune to meet a Cruella in the workplace then this resource would give you information of some behaviours and actions that you would encounter since the core natures of criminal and corporate psychopaths are the same. en M.H. Williams Notes from a Restricted Land London w:Austin Macauley Publishers 2023 9781398471672 We begged. We cried. We asked her not to call the principal. But, sadly enough, it didn’t work. She was a Cruella. We begged someone who didn’t know what forgiveness was. en eponyms