metooism
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metooism (countable and uncountable, plural metooisms)
- Alternative form of me-tooism
- 1955, George S. Benson, NERBA, volume 34, part 5, Boston, Mass.: New England Road Builders Association, →OCLC, page 12-2, column 2:
- For some elections past the Republican party has appeared to be acting on the fatuous theory that it could lure the labor leaders away from their Democratic alliance. Of all the "metooisms" that the Republicans have committed this one was the most transparent and the least effective.
- 1981, Chipper Snacker: International Voice of the Potato Chip and Snack Industry, volume 38, Hanover, Pa.: Potato Chip/Snack Food Association, →OCLC, page 67, column 1:
- One of the things that characterizes the snack food industry in the United States is the sense of “metooism” that generally pervades the product mix. Though there might be slight variations in flavors, there is a sameness in virtually every snack company's line, starting with potato chips and ending with popped pork rinds.
- 1982, Richard T. Saeger, American Government and Politics: A Neoconservative Approach, →ISBN, page 234:
- These ACNEs abhor and abjure the “metooism” and the Tweedledum-and-Tweedledee qualities that they feel have characterized the two major American political parties for too much of their histories.
- 1994, Juliet S. Thompson, Wayne C. Thompson, editors, Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister Indomitable, →ISBN, page 36:
- He came to reject the “metooism” involved in Heath’s [...]
- 2008, Sze-kar Wan, “Signification as Scripturalization: Communal Memories among the Miao and in Ancient Jewish Allegorization”, in Vincent L. Wimbush, editor, Theorizing Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon, Rutgers University Press, , →ISBN, page 107:
- The Miao myth of origins ostensibly tries to prove that they had books just like the Chinese, that they had a writing system just like the Chinese, and that they come from north of the Yangzi River, an area traditionally claimed by the Chinese as the birthplace of their civilization. [...] Far more than just simple “metooism,” the Miao legend is at heart a lament, a lament for the disappearance of their writing and their culture at the hands of the advancing Chinese civilization.