(n.) The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Will I get burnt to death in a giant effigy of a man woven from wicker?"
(2) Rybak was indicted for inciting hatred last year after burning an effigy of an orthodox Jew during a protest against Muslim immigration.
(3) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
(4) Today, they pitch up outside Buxton Opera House, unpack an 8ft effigy of Big Ben and an even bigger gibbet, and – oh, yes – hang parliament.
(5) There has been little media interest in the campaign, with some of the most recent reports about the US president concerning the burning of effigies of him to protest against a blasphemous anti-Islam film posted on YouTube.
(6) A crowned effigy of the justice secretary, Chris Grayling , as King John clamped in the stocks was carried past parliamenton Monday as the government-backed Global Law summit celebrated the approaching 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
(7) There’s was lots of stuff going on there – arrests, burning effigies – and not a peep in the press.
(8) Some women carried an effigy of a female version of the Philippine president, Benigno Aquino III, which will later be burnt in opposition to his policies, especially regarding issues such as aid distribution in the aftermath of typhoon Haiyan and privatisation of hospitals in the city.
(9) They brandished an effigy of the head of the ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
(10) The statement also rebuffed the proposal of dialogue with the South again, saying it would refuse talks unless Seoul apologised for its "monstrous criminal act" – a protest by 250 people in the capital on Monday during which effigies of the North's former leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, were burned.
(11) "No," reassured Lynch, "Eigg's sea name is Isle of the Big Women, so most probably it will be an effigy of a woman with giant boobies."
(12) They really don’t have the kinds of problems that they are protesting about that deserve the burning of effigies.
(13) In his Sunday Telegraph article, Paterson said Greenpeace burned an effigy of him and that he received death threats.
(14) Sussex police said they had been withdrawn following complaints on social media, but pictures emerged of one of the effigies at the centre of a fireworks display.
(15) Was this an ordinary car wreck, or were the two women, who had previously been threatened, shot at and burned in effigy because of their efforts to register black voters, targetted on that road?
(16) Here are some photos from the scenes: A group of demonstrators hold a mock coffin with an effigy of Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy during a protest against Spanish government austerity measures, on 15 September 2012.
(17) At one point, angry locals even burned an effigy of him.
(18) Is it an effigy of a sad girl looking defeated made out of pistachio sponge and marzipan?
(19) But it seems that the Salmond effigies were spared the flames after complaints were made.
(20) They threw rotten eggs and stones at the embassy compound, and the effigy was set on fire before being thrown over the high walls.
Scarecrow
Definition:
(n.) Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
(n.) A person clad in rags and tatters.
(n.) The black tern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Every transfer back to MLS from Europe is written about with the "eurosnob" as the argument's scarecrow.
(2) At least if he had to join the Army, he decided, he would apply for the Royal Army Medical Corps, but his diminutive stature (he was just over five feet tall) disqualified him from anything but the Bantam units, "a horrible rabble - Falstaff's scarecrows were nothing to these", he wrote.
(3) Among women, a majority favoured the Scarecrow (37 per cent as opposed to 36 per cent for the Tin Man).
(4) Across the board, 46 per cent of voters said they would prefer to be governed by the Tin Man, compared with 27 per cent who chose the Scarecrow.
(5) Stuntdriver George Cottle went through four Batmobiles during filming of Batman Begins, a retelling of Bruce Wayne's pre-cape capers that sees him do battle with a scarecrow on a fire-breathing horse hell-bent on, as ever, poisoning Gotham's water supply.
(6) When it came to keeping hungry lions at bay, an old-fashioned scarecrow just wasn't up to the job.
(7) I grew up not just gay but tall, speccy and scarecrow-skinny, the child of divorced parents from opposing sides of a sectarian divide.
(8) The program SCARECROW has been developed to help the molecular modeler to analyze and display the very big and complex data files produced by molecular dynamics programs.
(9) The molecular graphics program SCARECROW is written to support the display, animation, and extensive analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories.
(10) Ed Miliband is the Scarecrow, who has persuaded people his heart is in the right place while so far failing to prove that Labour could govern with no money.
(11) The Scarecrow from the classic movie "The Wizard of Oz" is but one example.
(12) We invited people to imagine they lived in the Land of Oz, and the candidates for power were "the tin man, who's all brains and no heart, and the scarecrow, who's all heart and no brains.
(13) His biographer wrote: "He offered as his personal motto the legend hung around the neck of a ragged scarecrow of a man in a painting by Goya : A ú n aprendo .
(14) Late-night TV roundup: Kellyanne Conway is a 'truth scarecrow' Read more But his favorite news organization appears to be the far-right site Breitbart, which Oliver said contained “the kind of headlines you see your old high school friend share on Facebook and think, ‘Oh that’s a shame, I guess Greg sucks now’”.
(15) Turere said he tried various ideas for a more peaceful solution, such as a kerosene lamp and a scarecrow.
(16) They will come the first day and they see the scarecrow, and they go back, but the second day, they'll come and they say, this thing is not moving here, it's always here.
(17) Late-night hosts took aim at Donald Trump’s counselor Kellyanne Conway last night, referring to her as a “truth scarecrow”.
(18) When it comes to any vision for a new economy, they are the scarecrow, the tin man and the cowardly lion – no brain, no heart and no courage."
(19) Having figured in the two previous Batman movies and Inception, it's hardly a stretch to imagine the Scarecrow returning.
(20) More immediately, the task facing both parties is to convince voters that they are neither tin man nor scarecrow.