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Guardianesque
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English
Etymology
From en guardian esque.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
Reminiscent of The Guardian, a left-wing British daily national newspaper.
en 2007 Robert Waller; Byron Criddle The Almanac of British Politics 666 A right-wing factionalist in the 1980s, he had become unpopular with the Guardianesque social workers and doctors by siding with the parents in the Cleveland child abuse scandal.
en 2016 Andrew S. Crines; Timothy Heppell; Peter Dorey The Political Rhetoric and Oratory of Margaret Thatcher 85 Against such 'Guardianesque' idealism and misguided liberalism, Thatcher depicted herself as a supreme realist in international relations.