Blairesque

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English

Etymology

From Blair +‎ -esque.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

Blairesque (comparative more Blairesque, superlative most Blairesque)

  1. Reminiscent of Tony Blair or his policies.
    • 2001, New Statesman - Volume 130, Issues 4557-4568, page 10:
      Lib Dem MPs are accusing their leader, Charles Kennedy, of almost Blairesque control-freakery in agreeing to accept Marsden when many of them were against it.
    • 2004, Charlotte Brandt, Lars Bang Larsen, Fundamentalisms of the New Order, page 13:
      Based on the "slow" economic Rhine model, Danish social policies since the 1930s have been instrumental in a redistribution of wealth, a paradigm that the Social Democratic party of the 1990s - now converted to Blairesque "third way" strategies - were involved in phasing out to provide the private sector with more wriggle-room.
    • 2008, The Spectator, page 10:
      It is certainly true, furthermore, that Mr Miliband is Blairesque. English, middle-class, tall and presentable: the Semiotic echoes are obvious.