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cryptofascist

cryptofascist is the alternative spelling of crypto-fascist.

Meaning of crypto-fascist

Noun

crypto-fascist (plural crypto-fascists)

  1. A person whose fascist views or motives are kept private or secret.
    • The American people will no longer retreat from “crypto-fascists” attacking their civil liberties, but will stand and fight for basic democracy, Senator Claude Pepper, Democrat, of Florida, declared yesterday at the closing session of the conference on cultural freedom and civil liberties at the...1947 October 27, Claude Pepper, quotee, “Pepper Asks Fight to Save Liberties”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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Forms of cryptofascist

Noun
pluralcryptofascists
Adjective
comparativemore cryptofascist
superlativemost cryptofascist

Origin of cryptofascist

From crypto- + fascist.

Questions about cryptofascist

What is cryptofascist the alternative spelling of?
Cryptofascist is the alternative spelling of crypto-fascist.

Words near cryptofascist in the dictionary

  1. cryptoexotics
  2. cryptoexplosion
  3. cryptoexplosions
  4. cryptoexplosive
  5. cryptofascism
  6. cryptofascist
  7. cryptofascistic
  8. cryptofascists
  9. cryptofash
  10. cryptofauna
  11. cryptofaunal

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