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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. slang Government by a group of thugs.
Etymologies
- thug + -cracy (as in democracy) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The libs were calling Dick Cheney Darth Vader, what are they calling the thugocracy?”
“Rush chides the President for shaking down the nice oil people, and Glenn Beck compares CEOs to Christians, martyred by the lions of Obama's "thugocracy".”
The Huffington Post: Laura Penny: The Cheapness That Is Not: Thoughts on the BP Spill
“We may even see four very tough years as the theocracy becomes a "thugocracy," but it is clear that the Iranian will has been publicized by every media outlet in the world, and we now know what Iranians really want.”
“Petraeus warns Iran becoming 'thugocracy' photo: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais”
“Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, said yesterday Iran is becoming a "thugocracy" given its attempts to suppress popular anger over last year's contested presidential vote results.”
“But suppose it's true: how does this amount to a "thugocracy", or to”
“Morris and Curry began to refer privately to Ickes's operation as a "thugocracy," because they felt he was trying to intimidate them both politically and personally.”
“One of the speakers accused the Brussels police "thugocracy" of inciting disorder.”
“Jennifer Rubin looks ahead: Welcome to the "thugocracy": the Obama camp wants to Department of Justice to investigate not voter registration fraud, but people talking about voting fraud -- including the GOP ticket.”
“The "thugocracy" we fear should Obama win comes not just from angry actions, but from angry words as well.”
Lists
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
cadre, bribery, bashing, backhander, clash, crony, coercion, coterie, chicanery, baksheesh, acolyte, backlash and 256 more...
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
blow the whistle, boo, cronyism and rigging, democratic deficit, denigrate, dirty linen, fiasco, finger pointing a..., graft, hidden account, hush money, illicit financing... and 578 more...
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Open List - Partisan Political Pejora...
A list of pejorative names for "the other" political group(s), from decepticrat to neotard.
neotard, eco-socialist, Red Green, watermelon, libidiot, sheeple, libertard, decepticrat, dummycrat, democrook, republicon, reich wing and 57 more...
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Forms of Government
A handful of -ocracies.
adhocracy, androcracy, aristocracy, autocracy, cleptocracy, corpocracy, democracy, ethnocracy, gerontocracy, gynecocracy, gyneocracy, gynocracy and 31 more...
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VanishedOne's Words
facipulator, fetiphobia, gules, boustrophedon, reverse boustroph..., unreal, ensiform, xiphoid, romhack, heritage, floccinaucinihili..., johnian and 1004 more...
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vanishedone Concurring Opinions: 'The NY Times reports today that "three sets of researchers recently concluded that professors have virtually no impact on the political views and ideology of their students." Apparently the American Enterprise Institute's fear of the "liberal thugocracy" of academia is overblown; parents and family are a much better predictor of an individual's political predilections.' Nov 4, 2008