blairesque
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Reminiscent of Tony Blair or his policies.
Example Sentences
- "Lib Dem MPs are accusing their leader, Charles Kennedy, of almost Blairesque control-freakery in agreeing to accept Marsden when many of them were against it."
- "Based on the "slow" economic Rhine model, Danish social policies since the 1930s have been instrumental in a redistribution of wealth, a paradigm that the Social Democratic party of the 1990s - now converted to Blairesque "third way" strategies - were involved in phasing out to provide the private sector with more wriggle-room."
- "It is certainly true, furthermore, that Mr Miliband is Blairesque. English, middle-class, tall and presentable: the Semiotic echoes are obvious."
Etymology
From Blair + -esque.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Blairesque (comparative)
most Blairesque (superlative)