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- adjective Of or relating to Richard Nixon (1913–1994), 37th President of the United States, famously associated with the Watergate scandal.
Etymologies
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Examples
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So to see the left tag anyone in the established media who dares to treat this modern day Horatius at the Bridge with anything other than respect as "Nixonian" is just the next logical step.
Chez Pazienza: Julian Assange: God of War Chez Pazienza 2010
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So to see the left tag anyone in the established media who dares to treat this modern day Horatius at the Bridge with anything other than respect as "Nixonian" is just the next logical step.
Chez Pazienza: Julian Assange: God of War Chez Pazienza 2010
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So to see the left tag anyone in the established media who dares to treat this modern day Horatius at the Bridge with anything other than respect as "Nixonian" is just the next logical step.
Chez Pazienza: Julian Assange: God of War Chez Pazienza 2010
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So to see the left tag anyone in the established media who dares to treat this modern day Horatius at the Bridge with anything other than respect as "Nixonian" is just the next logical step.
Chez Pazienza: Julian Assange: God of War Chez Pazienza 2010
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So to see the left tag anyone in the established media who dares to treat this modern day Horatius at the Bridge with anything other than respect as "Nixonian" is just the next logical step.
Chez Pazienza: Julian Assange: God of War Chez Pazienza 2010
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MOOS (voice-over): Not since the word Nixonian has a potentially presidential name entered the lexicon with such frequency.
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The constant monitoring of the citizens of "Airstrip One" had its equivalent in Nixonian surveillance.
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Seems like Mitt is in Nixonian territory: it’s legal if Mitt does it, but otherwise he’s not so sure?
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The problem is pretending that it's Nixonian, which is why he retracted that part.
Balloon Juice 2009
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Talking conversationally to the largest audience ever for a political speech, in the style that came to be called Nixonian, he defended himself from charges of corruption by attacking his critics.
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