Sauron

From the dark lord Sauron in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, whose name Tolkien created in his constructed language Quenya, from saura (“foul, putrid”).

Sauron (plural Saurons)

1. An evil, tyrannical, or widely disliked person.
   • 2004, "The story goes on being relevant", Birmingham Evening Mail, 8 January 2004:

     'I don't think there are any Saurons around today but, in 1939 there was one, sitting in the middle of Europe. […]

   • 2007, "Overload", GameAxis Unwired, February 2007, page 12:

     For aspiring Saurons and Darth Sidiouses, the game allows the player to fill the boots of a big evil Overlord with a handful of minions to start out with.

   • 2013, Douglas V. Porpora, Alexander G. Nikolaev, Julia Hagemann May, & Alexander Jenkins, Post-Ethical Society: The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular, University of Chicago Press (2013), →ISBN, page 196:

     Torture, indeed, like enslavement, has traditionally been iconic of pure evil, the practice of a Sauron or a Saddam Hussein.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Sauron.

• Sauronesque

• Ruanos