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Etymology

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From Lewinsky +‎ -an.

Adjective

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Lewinskian (comparative more Lewinskian, superlative most Lewinskian)

  1. Of, relating to, or reminiscent of Monica Lewinsky, who was involved in a 1998 sex scandal with US President Bill Clinton.
    • 2012, David Foster Wallace, Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments, page xxvi:
      Did you know that probing the seamy underbelly of US lexicography reveals ideological strife and controversy and intrigue and nastiness and fervor on a near-Lewinskian scale?
    • 2013, James Bowman, Honor: A History:
      One journalist notoriously announced that she herself would have been happy to perform a Lewinskian service for the president in gratitude for his having kept abortion legal []