adefesio

Borrowed from Latin ad Ephesĭos (“to the Ephesians”), title of an epistle of St. Paul, an allusion to the penalties imposed on the saint in Ephesus during his preaching.

• IPA^(key): /adeˈfesjo/ [a.ð̞eˈfe.sjo]
• Rhymes: -esjo
• Syllabification: a‧de‧fe‧sio

adefesio m or f (masculine and feminine plural adefesios)

1. ugly, ridiculous

adefesio m (plural adefesios)

1. ugly, ridiculous person or thing
   • 2017 May 25, Javier Vivas Santana, “Asesinar al pueblo para imponer una dictadura”, in El Nacional‎:

     En consecuencia, el madurismo pretende asesinar al chavismo con una puñalada en el corazón de su pensamiento, al intentar derogar la Constitución y sustituirla por un adefesio jurídico que acabe con el protagonismo del pueblo en la toma de sus principales decisiones […]

     Thus, Madurism hopes to kill off Chavism by stabbing it in the heart of its belief, trying to repeal the Constitution and replace it with a legal car crash that does away with the protagonism of the people in its main decision-making.

2. idiotic action

• “adefesio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014