cressida

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The officer in charge, Cressida Dick, was given a slap on the wrist.

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(countable) A female given name from Ancient Greek.

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noun

(countable) A female given name from Ancient Greek.

noun

(astronomy) A moon of Uranus, Solar System.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cressida.

noun

(countable) A female given name from Ancient Greek.

noun

(astronomy) A moon of Uranus, Solar System.

Example sentences

The officer in charge, Cressida Dick, was given a slap on the wrist.

Just to add a few details, Cressida Dick is the person who ordered the execution of a brasilian electrician, down in the London Underground.

Shakespeare's Globe in London did full OP productions (on the main stage) of Romeo and Juliet (2004, [1]) and Troilus and Cressida (2005, [2]).

Are Altman And Yudkowsky the Troilus and Cressida of AI?

Consider the source: Cressida Dick, and the Met Police.

In fact, Toyota stopped selling top-of-the-line cars after Lexus launched, they discontinued the Cressida and stretched the Camry into the Avalon just to have a full-sized Toyota in America.

(I wonder why Dame Cressida Rose Dick DBE QPM won't investigate the House of Lords cash-for-peerages scandal?

Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida contain an undisguised bitterness which is largely absent in the earlier tragedies (although you can glimpse a hint of it in Anthony and Cleopatra).

In recent months, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, Cressida Dick, and the mayor, Sadiq Khan, have been among those calling for a public health approach.

>It is abundantly clear now with the ousting of the previous commissioner, dame Cressida Dick that the majority of those in authority were in denial about the level of failings within the UK police forces, notably that of corruption and serious offences including rape and murder by police.

Oh, and the How To Train Your Dragon books, by Cressida Cowell, are wonderful, hilarious pieces of work about self-discovery, loyalty, friendship, and the hard, slow struggle to achieve mastery and skill in a world where people expect you to be something rather different than you are.

Proper noun examples

Cressida Dick was the one who gave the order to kill Carlos Mendes after MI5 wrongly identified him as a known terrorist on their watch list.

I'm demonstrating one natural outcome of your criticism here by using proper punctuation, capitalization, and other grammatical minutiae while knowing not the damnedest thing about the quality or literary history of Troilus and Cressida.