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Which cartoon character's name came to mean "insignificant or worthless"?

character

[kar-ik-ter] / ˈkær ɪk tər /




NOUN
portrayal of another
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"People are seeing how smart you are and how you're actually so on it, and you're such a good judge of character," he praised.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

The court heard that Fogg was of previous good character.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

To extend the horror-movie metaphors even further, Trump is such a crude cartoon character that if he isn’t the Terrifier then maybe he’s Pinhead from “Hellraiser.”

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

“Harley is a character I’m almost certainly going to use in the DCU,” Gunn added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

He’s a pain in the butt, but he IS a good judge of character.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Additions like a full bus system, detailed non-player characters and a much, much larger map all have gamers itching to start playing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

Available in a new translation by Michael R. Katz, the book brims with vivid characters and profound struggles of faith in its study of the guileless Prince Myshkin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Many factors contributed to that syndicated series’ success and Stewart’s resultant popularity as the man behind one of TV’s most beloved characters.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Transfers are authorised using "private keys" -- long strings of characters kept secret.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

“There are something like fifty-two thousand characters in the Chinese language so you can imagine seventeen messages which were nine or ten groups long each one, what a gigantic hunt would have to go on.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield


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