Simon Legree

[ li-gree ]

noun

1. the brutal plantation owner in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin who abuses and murders several enslaved people.
2. any harsh, merciless master:

   Our math teacher is a Simon Legree.

Legree, Simon

1. The cruel overseer and owner of slaves in Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe . Though the book describes conditions in the slaveholding states of the South, Legree, the most vicious character in it, is from New England .

Example Sentences

He knew just how to handle Simon Legree, and without Suggs things went fairly smooth—on the surface.

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He bears the same relation to gambling that Simon Legree bore to the institution of slavery of fifty years ago.

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Give me a week or two to rest, and I'll be back in the lab bossing all of you like a Simon Legree.

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Then, the book tries to show how slavery develops the worst men, of the stamp of Simon Legree, the brutal overseer.

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With the stern look of a Simon Legree she demanded, "How dare you leave your seats!"

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