Definition of "pygmies" [pygmies]

• Plural form of pygmy. (noun)

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• "Another shareholder, John Harrington, just said, to light applause, "comparing Yahoo to moral pygmies is unfair to pygmies.""
• "(Memoires de l’Acad.tom. vii.p. 321, &c.)] 130 The fable of the pygmies is as old as Homer, (Iliad. iii."
• "This thrice-married and admitted adulterer who now proclaims himself as paragon of virtue and the rest of the GOP field as a pack of pygmies is just dying to enter the race so he can vanquish the last vestiges of the Clinton era, a task he failed at miserably in his last attempt in 1998 when, among other things, he tripped over his own self-righteousness, lost House seats, and provoked the raging ire of his own House leadership to the point that they not only forced him out of power as Speaker of the House, they ran him out of Congress."