Wilde
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- proper noun
- /waɪld/
- That's the wittiest remark since the passing of Oscar Wilde.
- Oscar Wilde
- Pater and Wilde
- Wilde in Paris
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- She was also known, she was known as the Oscar Wilde of the skies.
- Genius is born, not paid, said author playwright Oscar Wilde.
- And now let me leave you with some words from Oscar Wilde.
- You know, Oscar Wilde says that everyone is afraid of their mother.
- So, you know, you're better off being yourself than being anyone else, as Oscar Wilde said, isn't it?
- I was reading De Profundis, the letter that Oscar Wilde wrote when in jail to Boise.
- Oh, if you haven't read Oscar Wilde, well, you, you don't know what you've cut yourself off from.
- The little almsman of spring Bowers, Oscar Wilde, found sweet fretful swarms of grumbling bees and Tennyson the murmuring of innumerable bees.
Examples
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"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious," according to Oscar Wilde.
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He's a disco-dancing, Oscar-Wilde-reading, Streisand ticket-holding friend of Dorothy.
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The France that Wilde returned to was a nation in crisis.
Academic text (2011) -
Did you see the new show in London by Wilde?
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How would Oscar Wilde have put it?
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Oscar Wilde said, "To define is to limit."
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Oscar Wilde once said that marriage is a triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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The Hotel d'Alsace, Paris, where Oscar Wilde died in poverty in 1900.
Academic text (2011) -
Central to the Edwardian reception of Oscar Wilde was, of course, the revelation of Wilde as a homosexual.
Academic text (1999) -
Did you know that Oscar Wilde wrote 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
Synonyms
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A famous Irish writer and poet known for his plays and clever sayings
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Etymology
The name Wilde comes from an old English word meaning 'wild' or 'untamed', and it shares the same root as the common word wild. So the name suits Oscar Wilde's bold, dramatic style and his reputation for being lively and unusual.