wilde

Speech parts

1. wilde - Adjective

2. Wilde - Proper noun

Meaning

wilde

Obsolete spelling of wild

wilde

wild, savage

Wilde

A surname from Middle English. A variant of Wild.

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Examples

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde. Camille Paglia

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right! Al Lewis

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. E. M. Forster

Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde's books in a bookshop makes me smile. Orhan Pamuk

Wilde was not a great poet nor a consummate prose writer. He was a very astute Irishman who encompassed in epigrams an esthetic credo which others before him scattered in the space of long pages. He was an enfant terrible. Jorge Luis Borges

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