Meaning of naufrageous | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“Whence this incongruous union, suggestive only of mutual reproaches, eternal bickerings, plumbaginous and naufrageous epithets, broken crockery, charges of cold feet and a final appeal to the courts ?”

“The shipwreck portends disaster for the body politic when error undoes the social fabric. Petrarch’s amatory conflict blurs into an ideological one about the poet’s responsibilities to the structures of power in his time. All this for a naufrageous song.”

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