satyr
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- noun
- /ˈsætər/
- Offensive
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sátiro
- It was also said that he was a satyr in the studio, that no model was safe from his advances, and that, when he became famous, he was content to be taken over by a succession of amorous "muses."
Examples
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Dermott spreads his legs, plants his feet, and crosses his arms on his chest in the vaguely salacious posture of a satyr in a painting.
Fiction book (1998) -
He was unscrupulous, unclean, and crooked—a kind of dissipated satyr.
Blog text (7) -
A place not only a satyr should be afraid of.
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I'm a Satyr.
Academic text (2010) -
A satyr, but wiser
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Maybe Picasso realized that Gauguin was making de Haan into a modern Symbolist-satyr and decided that he would do the same with his harlequin.
Blog text (29) -
We fat ourselves with present joy as a glutton slips toward his dish, a satyr his harlot, the credulous his idol.
Fiction book (1991) -
If he wasn't playing secret agent, he was playing lothario, or politician, or debonair Brit, or just some weird satyr-like melding of traits.
Academic text (2007) -
There isn't some slavering, hulking satyr with a raging, constant erection and curling ram's horns out there committing every single rape that's happening.
Blog text (32) -
He was such a satyr, always flirting with every woman at the party.
Synonyms
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A man who often charms and has sex with many women without caring about their feelings
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A man who shows rude, strong sexual interest in other people
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A man who behaves in a rude, unwanted sexual way
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A man who makes unwanted sexual comments or touches others
A person, often a man, who behaves in a way that is rude about sex
A person who has very strong sexual desire and seeks sex often
Antonyms
Compounds
- South African
A plant with broad oval leaves and green, irregular flowers in southern Africa
- Literature
A short ancient Greek play mixing serious drama with rude comedy and actors dressed as half-man, half-goat creatures
How Lustful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Satyr was the name for those lustful myth creatures, so the word later came to mean 'a man with strong or uncontrolled sexual desire', tying the old image of wild behaviour to the modern sense of a lecherous man.