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Big Brotherish

Big Brotherish adjective: relating to or suggesting Big Brother (unwarranted, invasive surveillance).

Adjective

Big Brotherish (comparative more Big Brotherish, superlative most Big Brotherish)

  1. Relating to or suggesting Big Brother (unwarranted, invasive surveillance).
    • [...] a Big Brotherish refusal to grant them respite from administrative vigilance, as though they were children.1974, Western American Literature, page 121
    • Juan Andreas explained that it was the local media, a microphone rigged up to some speakers. It played music, messages, news and advertising to the local people and there was no way that it could be switched off. It struck me as Big Brotherish but it was the sound rather than the content that was...1992, No Guns, Big Smiles, page 85

Examples of Big Brotherish in a sentence

  • It struck me as Big Brotherish but it was the sound rather than the content that was uncomfortable.1992, No Guns, Big Smiles, page 85:
  • [...] a Big Brotherish vigilance to ferret out transgressors.2007, Harold C. Livesay, American Made, page 143:

Forms of Big Brotherish

comparativemore Big Brotherish
superlativemost Big Brotherish
alternative formBig-Brotherish

Origin of Big Brotherish

From Big Brother + -ish.

Questions about Big Brotherish

What does Big Brotherish mean?
Big Brotherish means relating to or suggesting Big Brother (unwarranted, invasive surveillance).
How do you use Big Brotherish in a sentence?
It struck me as Big Brotherish but it was the sound rather than the content that was uncomfortable.
What part of speech is Big Brotherish?
Big Brotherish is an adjective.

Words near Big Brotherish in the dictionary

  1. Big Brake
  2. big break
  3. big breaks
  4. big bro
  5. big brother
  6. Big Brotherish
  7. big brotherism
  8. big brothers
  9. big brown bat
  10. big brown bats
  11. big bucks

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