Augean
pronunciation
How to pronounce Augean in British English:
UK [ɔ:ˈdʒi(:)ən]
How to pronounce Augean in American English:
US [ɔˈdʒiən]
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- Adjective:
- extremely dirty and corrupt
Word Origin
- Augean (adj.)
- "filthy," 1590s, in reference to Augean stable, the cleansing of which was one of the labors of Herakles, from Greek Augeias, like the stable of Augeas, king of Elis, which contained 3,000 oxen and had gone uncleansed for 30 years. Herakles purified it in one day by turning the river Alpheus through it.
Example
- 1. Every government ought to attend to cleaning its own augean stables .
- 2. He should have resolved to cleanse these augean banking stables .
- 3. He told the usa to clean its own augean stables first before criticizing him .
- 4. How to clean the augean stables of this city remains a critical problem .
- 5. We know , in short , that this was the augean stables .