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mutual admiration society

mutual admiration society noun: a group of two or more people, in a workplace or other social environment, who routinely express considerable esteem and support for one another, sometimes to the point of exaggeration or pretense.

Noun

mutual admiration society (plural mutual admiration societies)

  1. (derogatory, idiomatic) A group of two or more people, in a workplace or other social environment, who routinely express considerable esteem and support for one another, sometimes to the point of exaggeration or pretense.
    • Those two are incessantly flattering one another. They've formed an utterly nauseating mutual admiration society!
    • And the said members did accordingly resolve themselves into a little "mutual admiration society" for the entertainment and benefit of their visitors.1824, The Westminster Review, London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, page 400

Examples of mutual admiration society in a sentence

  • Vandeloup smiled at this, and came to the conclusion that the Wopples family was a mutual admiration society.1889, Fergus Hume, chapter 13, in Madame Midas:
  • If you don't want a mutual admiration society, which dies as soon as you've all discovered each other's faults, you must nobble the Press.1919, Virginia Woolf, chapter 26, in Night and Day:
  • Joe DiMaggio and Willie Mays had a mutual admiration society and the Clipper was happy to put his respect into writing.2007 July 17, Bill Gallo, “Signs of DiMaggio's greatness”, in New York Daily News:

Synonyms of mutual admiration society

Forms of mutual admiration society

pluralmutual admiration societies

Questions about mutual admiration society

What does mutual admiration society mean?
Mutual admiration society means a group of two or more people, in a workplace or other social environment, who routinely express considerable esteem and support for one another, sometimes to the point of exaggeration or pretense.
How do you use mutual admiration society in a sentence?
Vandeloup smiled at this, and came to the conclusion that the Wopples family was a mutual admiration society.
What part of speech is mutual admiration society?
Mutual admiration society is a noun.
What is the plural of mutual admiration society?
The plural of mutual admiration society is mutual admiration societies.

Words near mutual admiration society in the dictionary

  1. muttrimony
  2. mutts
  3. mutua
  4. mutual
  5. mutual admiration societies
  6. mutual admiration society
  7. mutual assured destruction
  8. mutual combat
  9. mutual combats
  10. mutual consent
  11. mutual consented

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