Clintonoid

adj, noun — 2 senses

Clintonoid

adj

Etymology From Clinton + -oid.

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US, Derogatory, Informal Clintonian: relating to or supporting Bill or Hillary Clinton.

  • Which Clintonoid columnist or propagandist did not employ this dramatic phrase, as their hero found himself at the mercy, not of a law 'n' order Democrat on the approved model, but of a law 'n' order Republican?1999, Christopher Hitchens, chapter 3, in No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton:
  • But this, he asserted, "does not require the rhetoric of reparations," and it fit what he called "the Clintonoid tenor of sappy public apologies and maudlin psychobabble about collective pain and healing."2005, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey, The Limits of Law, →ISBN, page 89:
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  • Clintonoid liberals have their own narratives that minimize the lessons to be drawn from Trump's victory.2018, Adolph L. Reed Jr., “Foreword”, in Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement:

Clintonoid

noun

Etymology From Clinton + -oid.

1

US, Derogatory, Informal A Clintonite.

  • A Clintonoid would be able to easily dismiss it as just some sort of clerical error if it weren't so logically cohesive.1995, Michael Cliff Kellett, The Murder of Vince Foster, page 135:
  • Samuel Francis sounds like a Clintonoid in his column "Will Europe Survive?" (Principalities & Powers, August).2002, Chronicles - Volume 26, page 4:
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  • Hey, Clintonoids, Stop Bullying Me About My Vote2016, Ted Rall for Counterpunch, Hey, Clintonoids, Stop Bullying Me About My Vote:

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