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Definition of nemesis:

  • (noun) (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance
  • (noun) something causes misery or death; "the bane of my life"

Sentence Examples:

There is the Nemesis of your slave philosophy.

It is indeed not only the nemesis of culture but even of civilization itself.

It is the Nemesis of all human brotherhood.

This law has been the Nemesis of the young Virginian.

Helena may yet be the nemesis of the enemies of the great Emperor.

The nemesis of the pornographer: he can't avoid boring you to tears.

There was a nemesis to dog any man.

Nemesis always follows on the heels of vengeance.

There is little doubt that death is the nemesis of their reproduction.

Nemesis followed behind the trio in the shape of one of the railway police.

Such is the Nemesis which waits on remedies of the "heroic" order.

The Nemesis which had seemed to pursue his productions now took flight.

He had not been made soft by the nemesis that laid him by the heels.

There was the nemesis who didn't like youth to make such a fool of itself.

They care not for the needs of posterity, or for the nemesis of a future existence!

Nemesis lists heavily under her burdened decks as she goes ahead and clears.

The very nemesis of misfortune seemed to pursue this innocent lady.

Short spell of success and victory, soon to be followed by a terrible nemesis!

Double and turn how you will, there is a swifter Nemesis pursuing.

Nay, such is the Nemesis of pride, the barbers came to command the position.

It was the nemesis, he felt, of his refusal to come to his dying mother.

Their cry has become their nemesis.

Nemesis is really subtle!

Nemesis favors genius: the inevitable hour at length arrived.

This is the nemesis of grace abused.

Nemesis held him fast in her cruel clutches.

The others echoed the name of their Nemesis after Dick.

Nemesis waited on the failure of fools!

One nemesis of hypocrisy is the dimming of the idea of the righteous Judge.

How escape from the nemesis of the broken law into the freedom of Abraham's faith?

I have so liked the thought of your enjoying the "Nemesis of Faith."

These are the Nemesis of the institution of property in love.

In this nemesis on the King are associated the Queen and her kindred.

The four nemeses formed into a system by nemesis as a link.

The one attempt to reverse the nemesis confirms it.

The motive force of the whole play is another nemesis: the Life and Death of Richard.

With Nemesis is associated in the play of Macbeth Destiny in two distinct phases.

Harry could not but reflect on the nemesis which had pursued this man of crooked ways.

In the fourth act, nemesis is at hand.

The succession of Selim was a nemesis for the murder of Mustapha.

Then came the natural nemesis of such a deception.

Everywhere, he seemed to be crossing my trail, to be my nemesis.

Nemesis, however, was close upon me in my splendid isolation.

It is the Nemesis of his own political doctrines.

Nemesis comes swiftly as a rule.

Nemesis favors genius,' as Disraeli says of Burke.

It is the Nemesis of capitalist civilization.

His nemesis had already begun his work.

It is the Nemesis of disgrace, avenging the outraged and conquered Californians.

Such is the Nemesis of greed.

Woman is the nemesis of doubting man.

The end could only be Nemesis or retribution.

Whispers said the white mist, the pale nemesis, sucked the life from them.

He had forgotten his own nemesis.

Nemesis sets in for all who try to live for themselves alone.

Such was the image he began to form of his imagined nemesis.

Nemesis then looked out of the window and wailed.

It was necessary that his death appear as a punishment, a nemesis.