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It's been a while for this thread, though we've dealt with the concept elsewhere.
thersitical: loud and abusive, scurrilous
After Thersites, the gentlemen who is the first commoner in Western literature to challenge the authority of foolish rulers (in Homer's Iliad). As a result, he gets a sound beating for Odysseus and a nasty caricature from Homer -- and the Trojan War continues.
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