Meaning of Voldemort | Babel Free

Definitions

An evil, harmful, or widely feared person or thing.

Examples

“[…] Oscar has been called the Voldemort of Fleet Street by both friends and enemies. He was apparently ruthless in all his business dealings.'”

“If you asked me to identify a Voldemort in the myth of “social media,” it would be these people, and not guys like Gary Vaynerchuk.”

“Fructose is the Voldemort of the metabolic syndrome pandemic: stealthy, ever-present, and bad for the common good.”

“Rather than just extracting one taboo word and replacing it with another, online Voldemorts spread and mutate into dozens, even hundreds, of potential synonyms. […] (In perhaps the most ironic example of Voldemorting, I once tweeted the word Voldemort itself and my tweet was liked by two separate parody Voldemort accounts, presumably hoping to juice their follower count through a little social media Dark Arts.)”

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