obama-esque
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of Barack Obama (born 1961), American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
Example Sentences
- "‘24’ presidential story line has Obama-esque feel / A youngish, African-American politician becomes president. He’s relatively untested and rode to the highest office in the land on a wave of goodwill — but is he ready for the job? Does it sound like the hypothetical presidency of Sen. Barack Obama, Illinois’ own presidential hopeful?"
- "John McCain’s Obama-esque remarks about our “wasted” resources in Iraq weren’t the only comments that landed him in hot water after a recent appearance on “Late Show With David Letterman.”"
- "[Mitt] Romney, the cautious consultant, is pivoting to stress his corporate competence, and is rebranding himself as an Obama-esque change agent, but he will never make the sort of daring break that independent voters will demand if they are going to give the GOP another look."
- "After beginning with some more high-minded, even Obama-esque comments about what our country is, [Joe] Biden turned to the coronavirus."
Etymology
From Obama + -esque.