Definitions
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- adjective Of or relating to
fascism ; fascistoid;fascist
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or characteristic of fascism
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Examples
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However, I think many Christian evangelicals are unwittingly abetting certain fascistic policies; how do you convince them that although their motives may seem "just" or "pure" they are in fact contributing to harmful political movements?
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Yisrael Beitenu -- often denounced by the political left as crass and "fascistic" -- barely increased its share of the vote, while the pragmatic Ms. Livni significantly outperformed her recent polling numbers.
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None of it was overtly or newly fascistic, which is what I was really looking for.
Recording Surface 2008
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This woman is ferociously strong and determined, very "fascistic" in the Mussolini sense.
Michael Giltz: Cannes 2009 Day Six Reviews: Football, Fascism, Death and Porn 2009
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If western forces believe that we can restore security to the nation under a Karzai government without eradicating the kind of fascistic tendencies of the elected legislature, it will cannibalize itself from the inside out and return to just another female apartheidist Islamic state.
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If western forces believe that we can restore security to the nation under a Karzai government without eradicating the kind of fascistic tendencies of the elected legislature, it will cannibalize itself from the inside out and return to just another female apartheidist Islamic state.
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Morgen assembles these elements into an eye-opening and eye-catching document of the moment when it became evident that our once great democracy was on the brink of becoming the same kind of fascistic police state we always feared.
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MOORE: It ` s sacrifice and also kind of fascistic, isn ` t it, that the government is going to tell you -- I mean in California, as you know, they ` re talking about a plan where the government would actually regulate the thermostat in your house.
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Another mother denounced the edict as "fascistic," and wondered how the school could insist on such a rule when the whole point of high school was to produce independent-minded girls who knew how to think for themselves, thank you very much.
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And this was thought to be a violation of this very restrictive kind of fascistic law that had been on the books forever, the Alien and Sedition law.
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