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Blairesque

Blairesque adjective: reminiscent of Tony Blair or his policies.

Adjective

Blairesque (comparative more Blairesque, superlative most Blairesque)

  1. Reminiscent of Tony Blair or his policies.
    • Lib Dem MPs are accusing their leader, Charles Kennedy, of almost Blairesque control-freakery in agreeing to accept Marsden when many of them were against it.2001, New Statesman - Volume 130, Issues 4557-4568, page 10
    • Based on the "slow" economic Rhine model, Danish social policies since the 1930s have been instrumental in a redistribution of wealth, a paradigm that the Social Democratic party of the 1990s - now converted to Blairesque "third way" strategies - were involved in phasing out to provide the private...2004, Charlotte Brandt, Lars Bang Larsen, Fundamentalisms of the New Order, page 13

Forms of Blairesque

comparativemore Blairesque
superlativemost Blairesque

Origin of Blairesque

From Blair + -esque.

Questions about Blairesque

What does Blairesque mean?
Blairesque means reminiscent of Tony Blair or his policies.
What part of speech is Blairesque?
Blairesque is an adjective.

Words near Blairesque in the dictionary

  1. Blair Atholl
  2. Blair County
  3. Blair's babes
  4. Blaire
  5. blaireau
  6. Blairesque
  7. Blairgowrie
  8. Blairgowrie and Rattray
  9. Blairian
  10. Blairism
  11. Blairist

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