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Momus

NOUN
  1. god of blame and mockery

How To Use Momus In A Sentence

  • His mission was to make sure I didn't steal the scene by doing something unfortunate, such as tumbling down the flight of stairs that led from the set's upper level, where most of the supers mingled, to the stars who would be flirting and fighting and dining at the Café Momus below. Bravo, to the Rear Stage
  • Growing old in, and with, Japan "on the Click Opera blog, Nick Currie (aka Momus) lists several points of what could be" a silver lining to Japan's likely silver age "but concludes that realistically," Japan will get cheaper, smaller, poorer, purer, wiser, more itself. "review [en] of a decade of Japanese music by W. David MARX at Néojaponisme. Global Voices Online
  • Momus is a Scottish art musician and writer.
  • Before he had died in the bad air of the Bamboo, the Governor had picked the name Momus, after the ancient Earth god of ridicule. Elephant Song
  • On this score, I like what Momus has to say about why he is stopping his own regular blogging. Ballardian » Twitter: Defending the Indefensible
  • Nick Currie aka Momus will be performing live daily for free in Chelsea until July 15th. Momus Performs Daily in NYC
  • Pierre le grand: Or, "The poker chip" and "The buskin," Bacchus, and Aphrodite (not Venus), Comus, and Momus: exalting natural virtues and rebuking hypocracy both in church and state by J. W Rogers New York Times Hypes Iran Threat By Pretending Not To
  • Momus, from the Greek word for blame or criticism, was the ancient world's personification of the contrarian spirit.
  • Philosophers and fools, separately or together, as the case may be -- for folly and philosophy not seldom form one Janus-head, and Minerva's bird seems sometimes not ill-fitted with the face of Momus -- these and their thousand intermediates have tried in all ages to define that quaint enigma, Man: and I wot not that any pundit of literature hath better succeeded than the nameless, fameless man -- or woman, was it? An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
  • One, by cult musician Momus, is a tongue-in-cheek audioguide to city bus routes tip: don't believe everything you hear. (g)Host City: How I found the invisible city
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