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strawmannish

strawmannish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a straw man (an insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument).

Adjective

strawmannish (comparative more strawmannish, superlative most strawmannish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a straw man (an insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument).
    • And even this criticism seems disorganized and strawmannish[…].1971, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, page 149
    • Frazier, the creator of the experiment, defends his theories of social organization against Professor Burris, a slightly skeptical but generally sympathetic antagonist, and Professor Castle, a tender-minded philosopher and a bumptious, nasty, and unreasonable caviller, who interrupts the discussion...1974, Bruce Goldberg, “Skinner’s Behaviorist Utopia”, in Tibor R[ichard] Machan, editor, The Libertarian Alternative: Essays in Social and Political Philosophy, Chicago, Ill.: Nelson-Hall Company...

Forms of strawmannish

comparativemore strawmannish
superlativemost strawmannish

Origin of strawmannish

From strawman + -ish.

Questions about strawmannish

What does strawmannish mean?
Strawmannish means resembling or characteristic of a straw man (an insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument).
What part of speech is strawmannish?
Strawmannish is an adjective.

Words near strawmannish in the dictionary

  1. strawless
  2. strawlike
  3. strawman
  4. strawmanned
  5. strawmanning
  6. strawmannish
  7. strawmans
  8. strawmen
  9. strawmote
  10. strawmotes
  11. strawn

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