protofascist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Showing the beginnings of fascism.
Example Sentences
- "Even Lemon, for all her protofascist beliefs, wins our sympathy."
- "When Newt Gingrich and his protofascist comrades took over Congress in 1994, they sneeringly boasted that they intended to take the federal government back to the 1920s."
- "These logics have been resurgent on the right for years now, evident in the presence of protofascist and authoritarian leaders in Brazil, India, Hungary, the Philippines, Russia, and Turkey, among others."
- "The Social Darwinists are sometimes considered protofascists."
- "That congressman is a protofascist."
- "Along with stereotype-mongering phrases like “redneck America's life in the electronic theme park,” he occasionally reduces his countrymen to mindless proto-fascists."
Etymology
From proto- + fascist.