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the likes of

n. a similar kind; "dogs, foxes, and the like", "we don't want the likes of you around here" [syn: the like]

Usage examples of "the likes of".

Curia Hostilia at dawn the next morning, Drusus felt his old self, and quite equal to dealing with the likes of Philippus and Caepio.

He, to employ the likes of Lucius Decumius to get rid of a cadet who accused his precious son of murder?

He, to employ the likes of Lucius Decumius to procure bully-boys and rabble?

And we have no better commanders to oppose them than the likes of Marcus Junius Silanus.

Fees are for the likes of Prince Gauda, who will never be a great man, though he will be a king.

Yet how could he compete against the likes of Marcus Livius Drusus, or young Scaurus, or Licinius Orator, or Mucius Scaevola, or the elder of the Ahenobarbus brothers?

One ex-praetor and five backbenchers to form a delegation charged with reasoning with the likes of Caepio?

What is the matter with us, that we are letting the likes of this Pompey Cross-eyes put his uncouth arse on a senatorial stool?

A great intellectual with an abiding love for things Greek, he stood at the center of a group of men who patronized and encouraged the likes of Polybius, Panaetius, and the Latin playwright Terence.

When he went to the Curia Hostilia at dawn the next morning, Drusus felt his old self, and quite equal to dealing with the likes of Philippus and Caepio.

The destination is a place where wit is prized, so long as it is discreet and refined, and does not offend the likes of Madame de Maintenon.

Jean Bart on the deck of a warship, to be shut up in a carriage with the likes of me for several days was a miserable fate.

Mexico City, except for the hapless Inquisition, which was run out of Rome and had no way to dip its fingers into the running river of silver except by arresting and shaking down the likes of Jack and Moseh.