Kurtzian
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Megalomaniac; brutal, tyrannical.
"[…]imagine Caleb’s excitement and fear when he wins an in-house competition to spend a week alone with the firm’s reclusive, scarily Kurtzian founder, Nathan (bullishly played by Oscar Isaac), in his gigantic fortress of solitude on a private island—it looks like the one where they built Jurassic Park."
Example
More examples"[…]imagine Caleb’s excitement and fear when he wins an in-house competition to spend a week alone with the firm’s reclusive, scarily Kurtzian founder, Nathan (bullishly played by Oscar Isaac), in his gigantic fortress of solitude on a private island—it looks like the one where they built Jurassic Park."
Etymology
From Kurtz + -ian, after the fictional character Kurtz in the novel Heart of Darkness.
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