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vice-signalling

vice-signalling is the alternative spelling of vice signalling.

Meaning of vice signalling

Noun

vice signalling (uncountable)

  1. The practice of expressing a particular opinion or performing a particular action that is immoral, hateful, or cruel, but popular with the social group one is signalling to, to signal allegiance to or seek popularity with that group.
    • He [Pruitt] is famously obsessed with secrecy (his guards followed him even within the EPA building, as though he were Darth Vader), so the fact that his indiscretions were so indiscreet makes them seem deliberate. One explanation is that he was vice-signalling, trying to prove his Trumpiness to...2019 March 25, Richard Cooke, Tired of Winning: A Chronicle of American Decline, Black Inc., →ISBN

Questions about vice-signalling

What is vice-signalling the alternative spelling of?
Vice-signalling is the alternative spelling of vice signalling.

Words near vice-signalling in the dictionary

  1. vice-principals
  2. vice-reine
  3. vice-reines
  4. vice-roi
  5. vice-rois
  6. vice-signalling
  7. vice-skip
  8. vice-skips
  9. vice-versa
  10. vice-versâ
  11. vicechairman

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