| Nature | Forme |
|---|---|
| Positif | funest |
| Comparatif | more funest |
| Superlatif | most funest |
funest \fjuːˈnɛst\
I do assure you, there is nothing I have a greater scorn and indignation against, than these wretched scoffers; and I look upon our neglect of severely punishing them as an high defect in our politics, and a forerunner of something very funest.— (John Evelyn dans une lettre au Dr. Pierce, publié en 1863 dans Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S., volume 3, page 142, 17 septembre 1663)
Scarce had this unhappy Nation recover’d these funest disasters, when the abomination of Play-houses rose up in this land: From hence hath an inundation of Obscenity flow’d from the Court and overspread the Kingdom.— (Probablement Alexander Pope, God’s Revenge Against Punning, de Miscellanies, 3e volume, page 226, cité à partir de 1742, 7 novembre 1716)
..excepting only some Popes have be’en remarked by their own histories for funest and direful deaths.— (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1854)
Funest philosophers and ponderers,— (Wallace Stevens, Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds, de la collection Harmonium, 1922 (première publication le 7 septembre 1923))
Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
Flora, initially an ivory-pale, dark-haired funest beauty, whom the author transformed just in time into a third bromidic dummy with a dun bun.— (Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 264, 1969)