Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), General Secretary of the
Communist Party of theSoviet Union from 1964.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ceausescu's final brutal fling, serves up an uneven black comedy about rag-tag Jewish musicians ousted from the Bolshoi Orchestra in 1980 - during a Brezhnevian purge - who reunite
Thestar.com - Home Page Greg Quill 2010
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Noting that the leadership of the country has slipped into a Brezhnevian decline of fixed elections, tightly controlled TV, and an oppressively dominant security service, Knight writes that the opposition has undergone its own corrosion in recent years.
Robert Amsterdam 2010
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As did Cuba's communist atheists, the supposed socialists of Chávez's Venezuela and the Brezhnevian relics from Belarus.
British Blogs 2009
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He is searching (we are told) for speechwriters, his delivery is Brezhnevian.
Guy Fawkes' blog 2008
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It fell because Hönecker wouldn’t or couldn’t take a Stalinist, a Khruschevian or even a Brezhnevian attitude towards dissent in the DDR.
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And his Brezhnevian presidential bear hug came courtesy of George “I’m the Decider” Bush.
A Presidential President McCain?: David Friend Friend, David 2008
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