cute-hoorism

Noun

cute hoorism (uncountable)

1. (Ireland) Cunning, trickery, cleverness, especially in negative sense: finagling, cynical self-interest.
   • Some of the articles in this volume point to a culture of individusalism and ‘cute hoorism’ – where people try to get the political system to work for their own individual desires rather than for broad policy changes.2007, McGrath & O'Malley, Irish Political Studies Reader, page 7