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UK
/kɹˈiːtʃɐ/
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[ US /ˈkɹitʃɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹitʃɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- a human being; `wight' is an archaic term
How To Use creature In A Sentence
- Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
- Mr Boardman said: ‘I was out walking with my wife and dog when we happened across a little cove and we found the creature in the flotsam that had been washed up.’
- But many creatures besides humans have thrived without them and continue to do just fine, thank you very much. Smithsonian Mag
- By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe. Albert Schweitzer
- These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and unreliable.
- Experts agree that hippos belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed creatures whose extant representatives include camels, pigs and ruminants such as cows.
- What we do have here is a rather queer looking creature with a faceless Charlie Brown head, duck legs, two jointless yet pliable arms, and tentacles.
- So far is he from admitting the possibility of any dissiliency between the Divine will and absolute right, that he turns the tables on his opponents, and classes among Atheists those of his contemporaries who maintain that God can command what is contrary to the intrinsic right; that He has no inclination to the good of his creatures; that He can justly doom an innocent being to eternal torments; or that whatever God wills is just because He wills it. A Manual of Moral Philosophy
- God makes fowl and whales and every living creature.
- I know there are some psychoanalysts who theorize that every creature which appears in a dream or waking dream is an aspect of the dreamer. GALILEE