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- noun The behaviour or attitudes of
yahoos ;ignorant boorishness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Palin’s yahooism is bad enough, Lester, but the anti-Christian five minute hates eminating from Daily Kos – and all too frequently you – are worse yet.
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I see studying and going to the best school you can and learning to think critically as a powerful antidote to the homespun yahooism that is being held up to us as the gold standard of competence.
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Stupidity, pig-headedness and yahooism are not impeachable offenses.
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As for the right, Bush and the Republican Congress are about the victory of yahooism in American politics.
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And this conservative group suing, I mean, this is the worst sort of conservative yahooism.
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He nimbly avoided the pitfalls of yahooism, academicism, social realism and surrealist kitsch and, in so doing, forged a style that was exemplary for its technical and expressive economy, if not for daring imagination.
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And that down-home wilderness yahooism is just a phony ploy to fool people into believing she's one of them.
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And that down-home wilderness yahooism is just a phony ploy to fool people into believing she's one of them.
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And that down-home wilderness yahooism is just a phony ploy to fool people into believing she's one of them.
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And that down-home wilderness yahooism is just a phony ploy to fool people into believing she's one of them.
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