brentism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A self-satisfied, hypocritical, or embarrassingly inappropriate remark.
Example Sentences
- "The genius of Gervais is to let Brent get too close to reality in his portrayal of management technique. We all witness Brentisms every day."
- "This account challenges its followers to secure a date on Tinder using classic, squirm-inducing Brentisms, and later share the conversations on Twitter. As you might imagine, the results aren't always successful, but they're always funny."
- "The iconic character from The Office has always been designed to be laughed at, not with. […] The first third of the film is laugh after laugh; Brentism after Brentism. But half an hour in and this movie gets unnervingly dark and is an uncomfortable watch at times."