groupuscule
Definitions
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- n. A small political group, especially of an extremist faction.
Examples
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All his art is self-portraiture while his pseudo-radical groupuscule, the toothsomely named Party of Dynamic Erection, is camouflage for the knock-kneed terror that its members – Wick, Irwin and Nipple Warner – all feel in the presence of women.
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It matters little what decisions or directions this groupuscule takes, the lives of Irish people are not affected in any manner by their fringe existence.
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Pick a line, any line, and you can be pretty sure there is some group or groupuscule preaching it somewhere.
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The King's Arms in Oxford - which, during my time, had a vast array of real ales and a fully functioning Trotskyite groupuscule, headed up by Terry Eagleton - was, for me, little more than a licensed canteen.
Note
The word 'groupuscule' comes into English from a French word of the same spelling.
