pseudopopulist
English
Etymology
pseudo- + populist
Adjective
pseudopopulist (comparative more pseudopopulist, superlative most pseudopopulist)
- Apparently but not actually populist.
- 1988 June 10, James Krohe Jr., “Reading: Sandburg and Steichen”, in Chicago Reader:
- The Sewanee Review said of him, "He participated in all the claptrap of mid-century middlebrow liberalism, blending invocations to democracy, pseudopopulist jargon, and commercialized aesthetics in a souffle heavily flavored with cliche.
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