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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--Simon Legree This week's theme: eponyms. Simon Legree (SY-muhn li-GREE) noun A harsh taskmaster. [After Simon Legree, a brutal slave owner in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "In Brutal Bosses and Their Prey (1996, Riverhead Books), Harvey Hornstein identifies six variations on Simon Legree." Sal Marino; Brutal Bosses From Hell; Industry Week; Jun 22, 1998. X-Bonus Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? -Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984)

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