Sunakite
/ˈsuːnækaɪt/
Sunakite noun: a political supporter of Rishi Sunak (born 1980), British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024.
Noun
Sunakite (plural Sunakites)
- A political supporter of Rishi Sunak (born 1980), British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024.
- This is stupid politics from the Sunakites. It is akin to being 4-0 down in a football match in injury time and instead of accepting defeat gracefully going around elbowing opponents in the face and performing leg-breaking tackles.2022 August 10, Patrick O'Flynn, “Why Rishi Sunak shouldn’t quit”, in The Spectator
- I don't write as a long-term Sunakite (or Sunakster or Sunakparast or whatever the agentive sux is). The only conversation I have had with our dapper PM was an awkward phone call in which I told him I would be voting for Liz Truss.2023 October 1, Daniel Hannan, “It may be too late, but it is heartening to see Sunak governing like a true Conservative”, in Sunday Telegraph, page 21
Adjective
Sunakite (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the government, policies, or supporters of Rishi Sunak.
- My view is that Truss will be forced to adopt those Sunakite, overwhelmingly statist policies anyway, because the alternative is mass penury. The first test of her skill will be how she presents the emergency measures as something she, as a conviction politician, believed in all along.2022 August 21, John Rentoul, “Why Truss could be a successful prime minister”, in Gulf Today
- Alex Chalk, the cool Sunakite justice secretary, has just abandoned Dominic Raab’s “British Bill of Rights”, which was itself a rather timid attempt to curtail the European court’s powers.2023 June 30, John Rentoul, “Defeat over the Rwanda policy is a disaster for Sunak”, in The Independent, page 25
Examples of Sunakite in a sentence
- The result was a speech peculiarly unsuited to an international event, to the horror of Sunakites who hoped for "special AI relationship with knobs on" (as one aide put it).2024 July 23, Anne McElvoy, “Clunky Kamala can still take the fight to Trump with vigour”, in Evening Standard, page 16:
- The diaries are the first attempt at setting out a recognisably Sunakite version of the Tories’ recent history.2025 March 8, Declan Lyons, “The punishing life of a chief whip”, in The Spectator, London:
Forms of Sunakite
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Origin of Sunakite
From Sunak + -ite.
Questions about Sunakite
- What does Sunakite mean?
- Sunakite means a political supporter of Rishi Sunak (born 1980), British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024.
- How do you use Sunakite in a sentence?
- The result was a speech peculiarly unsuited to an international event, to the horror of Sunakites who hoped for "special AI relationship with knobs on" (as one aide put it).
- What part of speech is Sunakite?
- Sunakite can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce Sunakite?
- Sunakite is pronounced /ˈsuːnækaɪt/.
- What is the plural of Sunakite?
- The plural of Sunakite is Sunakites.
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