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Clintonoid

Clintonoid adjective: clintonian: relating to or supporting Bill or Hillary Clinton.

Adjective

Clintonoid (comparative more Clintonoid, superlative most Clintonoid)

  1. (US, derogatory, informal) Clintonian: relating to or supporting Bill or Hillary Clinton.
    • Which Clintonoid columnist or propagandist did not employ this dramatic phrase, as their hero found himself at the mercy, not of a law 'n' order Democrat on the approved model, but of a law 'n' order Republican?1999, Christopher Hitchens, chapter 3, in No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton
    • But this, he asserted, "does not require the rhetoric of reparations," and it fit what he called "the Clintonoid tenor of sappy public apologies and maudlin psychobabble about collective pain and healing."2005, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey, The Limits of Law, →ISBN, page 89

Noun

Clintonoid (plural Clintonoids)

  1. (US, derogatory, informal) A Clintonite.
    • A Clintonoid would be able to easily dismiss it as just some sort of clerical error if it weren't so logically cohesive.1995, Michael Cliff Kellett, The Murder of Vince Foster, page 135
    • Samuel Francis sounds like a Clintonoid in his column "Will Europe Survive?" (Principalities & Powers, August).2002, Chronicles - Volume 26, page 4

Examples of Clintonoid in a sentence

  • Clintonoid liberals have their own narratives that minimize the lessons to be drawn from Trump's victory.2018, Adolph L. Reed Jr., “Foreword”, in Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement:
  • Hey, Clintonoids, Stop Bullying Me About My Vote2016, Ted Rall for Counterpunch, Hey, Clintonoids, Stop Bullying Me About My Vote:

Forms of Clintonoid

Adjective
comparativemore Clintonoid
superlativemost Clintonoid
Noun
pluralClintonoids

Origin of Clintonoid

From Clinton + -oid.

Questions about Clintonoid

What does Clintonoid mean?
Clintonoid means clintonian: relating to or supporting Bill or Hillary Clinton.
How do you use Clintonoid in a sentence?
Clintonoid liberals have their own narratives that minimize the lessons to be drawn from Trump's victory.
What part of speech is Clintonoid?
Clintonoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Clintonoid in the dictionary

  1. Clintonize
  2. Clintonized
  3. Clintonizes
  4. Clintonizing
  5. Clintonland
  6. Clintonoid
  7. Clintonoids
  8. Clintonomics
  9. Clintons
  10. Clintonworld
  11. clints

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