English citations of axe-grindy
Adjective: "(informal) petty, grudging, or hostile; having an axe to grind"
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- 2012, Joe Streckert, "Science, Bitches: Why Your Hippie Friends Are Filled with Wrong", The Portland Mercury, 14 November - 20 November 2012, page 39:
- Some of the passages are so aggressively axe-grindy that Cristopher Hitchens' drunken ghost very well could have penned them.
- 2016, Michael Lista, Strike Anywhere: Essays, Reviews & Other Arsons, page 109:
- Everybody knows being a Starnino means being snarky, mean, ad hominem; it means being sesquipedalian, axe-grindy, show-offy; […]
