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• n  a person suffering from syphilis
• a  of or relating to or infected with syphilis
  syphilitic symptoms

• He nailed Brasillach on some of his rankest opinions: that Jewish families should be deported "en bloc," and that the pre-Vichy Republic was "an old syphilitic whore with her .
• One of the Doctor's favorites: "When the syphilitic German has used a French or Belgian girl, he cuts off her breasts as a warning to the next German soldier.
• Policemen asked the same question, soon discovered that Paul Harold Orgeron was an ex-convict and sometime tile layer, syphilitic, illiterate, and obsessed by dark fantasies of .

Quotes

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• Rupert Everett in The Australian
  After his release (from prison), Wilde travels to Naples, Paris and all around Europe. He was the last of the great vagabonds: this syphilitic, hobbling man who sat drunk in the corners of nightclubs. I can identify with that,Everett...
• Alan Cantwell in Canadian National Newspaper
  In the experiment,Cantwell wrote in his book, AIDS and the Doctors of Death, "about 400 black syphilitic sharecroppers were examined yearly by the Public Health Service doctors in Tuskegee. The purpose of the study was to record the...
• Stephen Colbert in Canada.com
  (During Mr. Despommier's recent appearance on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert called his ideas "the ramblings of a syphilitic brain."