eunuch
noun [ C ]
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Meaning of eunuch in English
Examples of eunuch
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We certainly never ordered that our decision be applied to a eunuch.
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Thus, eunuchs could serve as literal intermediaries between mamluks and elite women.
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Like men of letters, soldiers and eunuchs, they also redefined the social life of opium.
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In the end the eunuch, heard only telephonically, hovers as an unresolved cipher over the movie's apparent safe conclusion.
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He would be a political eunuch—an ornament of doubtful constitutional value, rather than a functioning part of the body politic.
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It is like expecting virility from a eunuch.
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Now we have a kind of political eunuch—someone not out of the top drawer.
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This is the absolute recipe for a eunuch board or a series of eunuch boards, which will be worse than useless.
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It is a committee which is to be appointed and presided over by someone with no party affiliations—a political eunuch.
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The eunuchs invented increasingly elaborate titles for themselves in the harem.
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That civil servants or quasi-civil servants of this sort ought to be regarded as social eunuchs is something that we should deplore.
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They will become editorial eunuchs, impotent to make those key decisions and appointments necessary for the efficient running of a newspaper.
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She accuses the community health councils of inevitably being eunuchs.
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I do not believe that political eunuchs are particularly well qualified to take on the particular roles set down for this commission.
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To strengthen that self-deception, she surrounds herself with political eunuchs who lack principles, honesty and self-respect.
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