whitehousian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "His assumption of the Whitehousian justification for censorship (and the use of 'the middle-aged' here is thin cover indeed for the first person singular) — to wit, that these American-style papers may corrupt their children, damage community relations, reduce British cities to New York level, or pollute the public mind."
- "Exactly the same technique may still be seen whenever we come upon 'f—' or 'f***' in print; every reader supplies the missing 'uck', but the Whitehousian proprieties are observed."
- "[…] for those disenchanted with sexual liberation, a basis for sexual caution without retreat into Whitehousian moral orthodoxy."
- "These range from naive and strident Whitehousian tirades against the supposedly corrosive effects of on screen sex, violence and profanity, to the much more sophisticated arguments of, say, William Fore (1987) or Neil Postman (1987)."
Etymology
From Whitehouse + -ian; named after Mary Whitehouse (1910–2001), English activist who stridently opposed social liberalism and the permissiveness of the mainstream media.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Whitehousian (comparative)
most Whitehousian (superlative)