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middle-nameless

middle-nameless adjective: without a middle name.

Adjective

middle-nameless (not comparable)

  1. Without a middle name.
    • The Democrats have been hunting for a presidential candidate who has no middle name and have pitched on one Grover Cleveland, of New York. The middle-nameless presidents were George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor...1884 June 20, Hazleton Sentinel, 5th year (New Series), number 243, Hazleton, Pa.: F[rank] L. Snyder, →OCLC, page [2], column 1
    • How could Blaine get over Grover’s cunning lack of a middle initial? Tradition was fighting for her life, and she won. What did William Jennings Bryan do against plain William McKinley, or Alton B. Parker against plain Theodore Roosevelt? Now, see what happened when two men with middle initials ran...1908 December 5, Chicago News, “The Fatal Middle Name. How It Has Proved a Hoodoo to Presidential Candidates.”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume LXV, number 840, Cincinnati, Oh., →ISSN, →OCLC, page...

Examples of middle-nameless in a sentence

  • Now, see what happened when two men with middle initials ran against each other, neither one having a middle-nameless man to elect him.1908 December 5, Chicago News, “The Fatal Middle Name. How It Has Proved a Hoodoo to Presidential Candidates.”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer...
  • To make me more like her, I too am middle-nameless.2014 November 15, Deirdre Pike, “Aging: Like life, be brave, live fully […]”, in The Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page...

Origin of middle-nameless

From middle name + -less.

Questions about middle-nameless

What does middle-nameless mean?
Middle-nameless means without a middle name.
How do you use middle-nameless in a sentence?
Now, see what happened when two men with middle initials ran against each other, neither one having a middle-nameless man to elect him.
What part of speech is middle-nameless?
Middle-nameless is an adjective.

Words near middle-nameless in the dictionary

  1. middle-income trap
  2. Middle-Indo-Aryan
  3. middle-man
  4. middle-market
  5. middle-men
  6. middle-nameless
  7. middle-of-the-road
  8. middle-of-the-roader
  9. middle-of-the-roaders
  10. middle-of-the-roadism
  11. middle-of-the-roadness

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