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rubber-stamped

rubber-stamped is the simple past and past participle of rubber-stamp.

Adjective

rubber-stamped (not comparable)

  1. Characterised by routine and thoughtless acceptance.
    • The spread of popular education in conjunction with the coming of the machine age and its concomitants, have together sufficed to create a rubber-stamped mentality. The popular Press, the cinema and the radio have resulted in the emergence of a public, the component members of which, with...1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 5

Questions about rubber-stamped

What does rubber-stamped mean?
Rubber-stamped means characterised by routine and thoughtless acceptance.
What is rubber-stamped the simple past and past participle of?
Rubber-stamped is the simple past and past participle of rubber-stamp.
What part of speech is rubber-stamped?
Rubber-stamped is an adjective.

Words near rubber-stamped in the dictionary

  1. rubber-hose cryptanalysis
  2. rubber-necker
  3. rubber-neckers
  4. rubber-soled
  5. rubber-stamp
  6. rubber-stamped
  7. rubber-stamping
  8. rubber-stamps
  9. rubberband
  10. rubberbanded
  11. rubberbanding

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