yardfowlism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "As if it were not enough, one notes too that management analysis and technique continue to face a hard and relentless time from pork-barrel aims, yardfowlism, nepotism, favouritism, cronyism, apple-polishing, logrolling, featherbedding empire-building and other social-human phenomena."
- "I need not remind you that, in making this commitment, the National Democratic Party has resolved to set its face against that mode of unsavoury and unprincipled party oriented behaviour which Barbadians so aptly describe as 'yardfowlism', a cancerous condition which has paralysed other political parties and has rendered them unable to put the national interest before personal and partisan considerations."
- "If it is not your goal, are you going to say that you as a Government will wish to find yourself in a position where you will have to perpetuate the kind of political preferential treatment commonly known as yard fowlism in terms of job generation and getting people in jobs?"