A terribly vain person who uses selfish and cruel emotional abuse to bend and manipulatelovers and friends. A Lanthis will then use these people and discard them when he's sucked them dry.
Pam to love-struck friend:
"Jane, you need to stay away from that guy. He may be hot but he's also a total Lanthis"
Jane:
"A Lanthis!? Thank goodness you told me, I'll stay well clear of him then"
The fear of being convicted of a crime you didn't commit, especially a major one resulting in jail time or perhaps even the death penalty. From Greek lanthasmenos meaning wrong or mistaken, and katadiki meaning conviction.
At Christmas, instead of buying a sweater for a loved one, buying a chicken on a non-profit website that goes to someone in the developing world as your gift to a loved one here, and the loved one here gets a certificate that says who got the chicken.
The practice of gift-lanthropy is increasing in North America.
Many non-profit organizations are implementing the model of gift-lanthropy to increase donations.
a person who is freakishly tall, or a tall person with freakish properties, can be used as an insult by a shorter person to a taller person to imply that being taller than them is weird, can also be an endearing term used by a shorter person so imply to a tall friend: although you are tall i still love you.
"wow, look how tall she is"... "yeah, what a lanktoid"
OR
"you're such a lanktoid" (either as insult or a jockularendearingaffectionate nickname)