The word "reptilian" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that generally refers to animals that belong to the reptile class, such as lizards, snakes, turtles, etc. For example: "The young boy marveled at the reptilian creature slithering across the rock."
Yet we've long run out of descriptors for the light-socket hairdo made famous by wretched, slimy, reptilian boxing promoter Don King.
Only on closer inspection did we see, like the sci-fi classic V, that underneath the suave human exterior lurked a hideous reptilian monster.
Boards have a duty to pluck up the courage to challenge such larger-than-life bosses.However, most corporate fraudsters do not have swishing reptilian tails as a giveaway sign.
Indeed, the biggest hope for Mr Mugabe's demise is that South Africa under Jacob Zuma may at last have had enough of the reptilian 89-year-old.Africa's belated momentMr Zuma's task will be easy if Mr Tsvangirai and the MDC are allowed to win.
Then, amid a blizzard of dry ice, pyrotechnic fireworks and several gratuitously sexist blow-up dolls, a 54-year-old Englishman with a sore throat strutted his stuff through two dozen songs.For all his reptilian energy, watching Mick Jagger increasingly requires a Barnumesque suspension of disbelief.
That analysis was given currency in the 1960s when Paul MacLean theorised that the human brain has three levels, the most basic both functionally and literally (because it is at the bottom of the organ)—being the "reptilian" part, composed of structures called basal ganglia.MacLean's analysis is not much believed now by neuroscientists, but it has stuck in the popular imagination.
Such reptilian life may not entirely be avoidable.
Some Peruvians have long believed that the president himself had ties to the reptilian Mr Montesinos.
This reptilian fuselage is the paradise tree snake of South-East Asia, whose habit of gliding from tree to tree has been the subject of recent research by John Socha, of the University of Chicago.
And President Bill Clinton, as everyone also knows, has a backbone of reptilian sinuosity when dealing with public-sector unions.
Until recently the oldest evidence of reptilian viviparity came from the fossil of a lizard-like animal, called Yabeinosaurus, which lived about 125m years ago.
