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Trotskyish

Trotskyish adjective: resembling or characteristic of the Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Adjective

Trotskyish (comparative more Trotskyish, superlative most Trotskyish)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of the Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
    • She was wearing a yellow shift with a red floral print, black sandals, and a pair of Trotskyish round plastic glasses; […]2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Forms of Trotskyish

comparativemore Trotskyish
superlativemost Trotskyish

Origin of Trotskyish

From Trotsky + -ish.

Questions about Trotskyish

What does Trotskyish mean?
Trotskyish means resembling or characteristic of the Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
What part of speech is Trotskyish?
Trotskyish is an adjective.

Words near Trotskyish in the dictionary

  1. trots off
  2. trots out
  3. Trotskian
  4. Trotsky
  5. Trotskyan
  6. Trotskyish
  7. Trotskyism
  8. Trotskyist
  9. Trotskyistic
  10. Trotskyists
  11. Trotskyite

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