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WOTD  
Word of the Day - for Toastmasters everywhere
Thursday 4th August 2022
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Augean (adjective) ow-JEE-un or or-JEE-un



Filthy, extremely difficult and unpleasant.

Because the infield is not opened to frolickers on Belmont Day, as it is for the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, there was no Augean mess for the maintenance crews to clear away yesterday morning.

Steven Crist, The New York Times, 8 June 1981. New York Times

For the next two years, Labour should devote itself to two themes - to the Augean cleaning up and opening up of politics - despite considerable pain to itself.

Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 30 November 2007. Guardian

Today, both we and they have an Augean task - seemingly impossible - to get it right this time.

Baroness Rawlings, Lords Hansard, 10 December 1998. Lords Hansard

Its purpose Augean - no less than to perform an act of reparation for the sins of students everywhere.

David Lodge, The Picturegoers. Amazon




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