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Definition of "anthropophagous" [an•thro•poph•a•gous]

  • Who practices anthropophagy. "Antropophagous tribes". (adjective)
  • Cannibal. (adjective)

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Use "anthropophagous" in a sentence
  • "So let us henceforth no longer abhor so very greatly the cruelty of the anthropophagous—that is, man-eating—savages."
  • "How did I toss and tumble in mine; which, small as it was, I was not destined to enjoy alone, but to pass the night in company with anthropophagous wretched reptiles, who took their horrid meal off an English Christian!"
  • "The Colonial government refused permission for mining, both because of Coral's colonists 'wishes to keep the planet whole, and because the Rraey's anthropophagous tendencies were well known."
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