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- noun uncountable The state of being a
pundit - noun countable The
opinion oradvice of a pundit
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Examples
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The quality of his political punditry is an entirely different issue. low-tech cyclist Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Presidents Shape Their Circumstances 2010
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PNB, you are a mess sir, incoherant and a lazy thinker, your witticisms lack both wit & incision, your punditry is bereft of puns and dittys.
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Apparently punditry is a recession-proof industry, unlike, say, CNN's entire science unit, which got dumped a few weeks ago.
Blockheads 2009
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That, however, did not stop Mr. Will; after all, Rule #1 of right-wing punditry is to never admit that you're wrong because to do so undermines your credibility.
Will or Will Not 2009
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Parental punditry is the most important kind of punditry.
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I'm not a reader of Blue Oregon. career partisan punditry is a waste of my life, energy, and soul.
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My opinion writing and punditry is merging into my academic world.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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My opinion writing and punditry is merging into my academic world.
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The punditry is working over time to figure out how Bill affects Hillary.
Taking a look at the Bill Clinton factor in the campaign 2008
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The punditry is working over time to figure out how Bill affects Hillary.
Taking a look at the Bill Clinton factor in the campaign 2008
rolig commented on the word punditry
Here's a question: Can this word be used as a collective noun for pundits? For example: "In the last election, polls show that no one paid much attention to the opinions of the punditry."
I'm dubious.
November 15, 2008
reesetee commented on the word punditry
On Wordie, all things are possible.
November 15, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word punditry
I think it sounds much more like the work that pundits do, rather than pundits as a collective entity. Like carpentry is to carpenter.
Perhaps punditdom?
November 15, 2008
skipvia commented on the word punditry
Wouldn't pundits as a collective noun be pundits?
November 15, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word punditry
Well, yes, unless you're talking about the world of punditism, rather than the pundits themselves.
I hate this word.
November 15, 2008
sionnach commented on the word punditry
I agree with c_b, that punditry refers to what pundits do, as opposed to being a collective noun. As she already pointed out, carpenters do carpentry; similarly, devils engage in deviltry and bandits are involved in banditry (really; I looked it up).
It remains unclear whether pandits conduct panditry, or whether hobbitry is an accepted term for describing the behavior and activities of hobbits. But we know that idolaters commit idolatry. And finally, we know that the word to describe "the attitudes and behavior of a narrow-minded, self-satisfied person with an unthinking attachment to middle-class values and materialism" is Babbittry.
One might, I suppose, refer to the entire class of bloviators as the punditocracy, by analogy with words like bureaucracy and aristocracy.
November 15, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word punditry
Ooh, punditocracy's more demeaning and nasty than punditdom. I like it.
November 15, 2008
skipvia commented on the word punditry
I'm with c_b. This is way up on my list of least favorite words, largely because it describes a person that performs one of the least useful services I can imagine.
November 15, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word punditry
But it's also most often used just as a pejorative to describe anyone whose activities you believe to be 'least useful.' I mean, you must admit. Does anyone call himself a pundit? With happiness at the prospect? Two hundred years ago, they'd probably have called Thomas Paine a pundit.
Or a blogger.
*is gleeful at the prospect of a blog at www.commonsense.com, written by Thomas Paine*
November 15, 2008
sionnach commented on the word punditry
But pundit derives from the Indian word pandit, meaning a wise man, no?
November 15, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word punditry
Yes! Isn't it ironic that it's mostly used pejoratively now?
Well, I suppose that's debatable. I offer it simply as a completely non-scientific observation.
November 15, 2008