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droogish

droogish adjective: amoral and savage, like a droog.

Adjective

droogish (comparative more droogish, superlative most droogish)

  1. Amoral and savage, like a droog.
    • In the second case, when droogish chivalry is revealed as illusory, Kubrick makes the scene ironic by timing it to Gene Kelly's song of joy from Singin' in the Rain (1952).1973, William Faure, Images of Violence
    • The rock star's droogish image had taken on a revolutionary glow; his music rang like a call to insurrection […]1988, Mark Crispin Miller, Boxed In: The Culture of TV

Examples of droogish in a sentence

  • These particular refugees have escaped the Droogish nightmare of Red Chinese environmentalists and are ensnared now in the grinding bureaucracy of immigration court.1993, Human Life Foundation, The Human Life Review:
  • I find the description wonderfully familiar, less the droogish quality, than the loosey-goosey opportunism.2004, Denis Wood, Five Billion Years of Global Change:

Forms of droogish

comparativemore droogish
superlativemost droogish

Origin of droogish

From droog + -ish.

Questions about droogish

What does droogish mean?
Droogish means amoral and savage, like a droog.
How do you use droogish in a sentence?
These particular refugees have escaped the Droogish nightmare of Red Chinese environmentalists and are ensnared now in the grinding bureaucracy of immigration court.
What part of speech is droogish?
Droogish is an adjective.

Words near droogish in the dictionary

  1. droobs
  2. Droodiana
  3. droodle
  4. droodles
  5. droog
  6. droogish
  7. droogs
  8. drook
  9. drooked
  10. drooking
  11. drooks

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