clockwork orange
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
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Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Contrarily, he may be saying, “Look what your computerized, commodified society has made of me—a clockwork orange, for all appearances organic but mechanical.""
- "The telos of the pathologization of crime is the perfected robot or “clockwork orange” of present-day behaviorism and sociobiology, descendants of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century associationists like Jeremy Bentham."
- "This one took reality to be a large machine, a ‘clockwork orange', an automaton."
- "Under the archbishop's ceiling, the self is not a clockwork orange programmed by the state but something more unnerving: Peer Gynt's onion, layers of performance without a core."
- "Lifelong fans, Riverside residents and a whole lot of new Netherlands supporters got the chance to see “Clockwork Orange” in action during the approximately 75-minute session."
Etymology
From the novel A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess, in which the main character is programmed to be incapable of antisocial behavior.
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Synonyms
The Flying Dutchmen