Hobbes
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Hobbesian noun
Example Sentences
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"It's like if the Manhattan Project announced the nuclear bomb within a cute little Calvin and Hobbes cartoon."
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
On a campus where expectations outpace reality, the 75 minutes Mr. Mansfield devoted to Machiavelli or Hobbes felt special.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
He quotes the philosopher Thomas Hobbes that our lives have been “nasty, brutish and short.”
From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025
In the seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes pegged laughter as the companion of scorn.
From Salon • Nov. 18, 2024
Hobbes stripped the human personality for any capacity for love or tenderness or even simple fellow- feeling, leaving instead only fear.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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