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Lewinskian

Lewinskian adjective: of, relating to, or reminiscent of Monica Lewinsky, who was involved in a 1998 sex scandal with US President Bill Clinton.

Adjective

Lewinskian (comparative more Lewinskian, superlative most Lewinskian)

  1. Of, relating to, or reminiscent of Monica Lewinsky, who was involved in a 1998 sex scandal with US President Bill Clinton.
    • Did you know that probing the seamy underbelly of US lexicography reveals ideological strife and controversy and intrigue and nastiness and fervor on a near-Lewinskian scale?2012, David Foster Wallace, Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments, page xxvi
    • One journalist notoriously announced that she herself would have been happy to perform a Lewinskian service for the president in gratitude for his having kept abortion legal […]2013, James Bowman, Honor: A History

Forms of Lewinskian

comparativemore Lewinskian
superlativemost Lewinskian

Origin of Lewinskian

From Lewinsky + -an.

Questions about Lewinskian

What does Lewinskian mean?
Lewinskian means of, relating to, or reminiscent of Monica Lewinsky, who was involved in a 1998 sex scandal with US President Bill Clinton.
What part of speech is Lewinskian?
Lewinskian is an adjective.

Words near Lewinskian in the dictionary

  1. lewing
  2. Lewington
  3. Lewinian
  4. Lewins
  5. Lewinski
  6. Lewinskian
  7. Lewinskis
  8. Lewinsky
  9. Lewinskyed
  10. Lewinskygate
  11. Lewinskying

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