Guardianesque

English

Etymology

guardian +‎ -esque

Pronunciation

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Adjective

Guardianesque (comparative more Guardianesque, superlative most Guardianesque)

1. Reminiscent of The Guardian, a left-wing British daily national newspaper.
   • 2007, Robert Waller, Byron Criddle, The Almanac of British Politics, page 666:

     A right-wing factionalist in the 1980s, he had become unpopular with the Guardianesque social workers and doctors by siding with the parents in the Cleveland child abuse scandal.

   • 2016, Andrew S. Crines, Timothy Heppell, Peter Dorey, The Political Rhetoric and Oratory of Margaret Thatcher, page 85:

     Against such 'Guardianesque' idealism and misguided liberalism, Thatcher depicted herself as a supreme realist in international relations.