strawmannish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a straw man (an insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument).
Example Sentences
- "And even this criticism seems disorganized and strawmannish[…]."
- "Frazier, the creator of the experiment, defends his theories of social organization against Professor Burris, a slightly skeptical but generally sympathetic antagonist, and Professor Castle, a tender-minded philosopher and a bumptious, nasty, and unreasonable caviller, who interrupts the discussion from time to time with generally strawmannish objections."
- "Merkl is also slightly “strawmannish” in the course of his demolition of the “lower-middle-class thesis” of fascism (pp. 138-44, 142-43, 148-53, 157-59, 289-91) since his own conclusions actually validate the more theoretical studies by Juan Linz (“heterogeneity”), Eugen Weber (“those on the way up and those on the way down”), Wolfgang Sauer (“losers”) and Charles Maier on the broad middle-class consumer base of fascism."
Etymology
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Inflected Forms
more strawmannish (comparative)
most strawmannish (superlative)