newspaporial

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English

Etymology

newspaper +‎ -ial

Adjective

newspaporial (comparative more newspaporial, superlative most newspaporial)

  1. Characteristic of or pertaining to newspapers.
    • 1832, Nathaniel Ames, Nautical Reminiscences, page 193:
      A vast proportion of them seem to have been christened in what 'Squire Western calls 'a spirit of contrary,' some few of which I will examine, premising at the same time that I feel neighter 'envy, hatred, malice, nor any uncharitableness' towards any of those who 'have lived long on the alms-basket of words,' having laboured myself not exactly in editorial harness, but merely by an occasional application of my shoulder to the 'newspaporial' wheel.
    • 1866, Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, Iowa and the Rebellion, page 376:
      But they had not joined the army to engage in the newspaporial business.
    • 1953, Leon Edel, Henry James: The conquest of London, 1870-1881, page 71:
      He offered advice: "Recollect that for Newspaporial purposes, a broader treatment hits a broader mark; and keep bearing that way as much as you can with comfort.
    • 2011, Mark J. Porrovecchio, F.C.S. Schiller and the Dawn of Pragmatism:
      “[I have] been led to neglect its utterances by their lack of 'terseness,' 'crispness,' 'raciness,' and other 'newspaporial' virtues, though I could discern that Dewey himself was laboring with a big freight, towards the light.