Carterize
English
Etymology
Carter + -ize
Verb
Carterize (third-person singular simple present Carterizes, present participle Carterizing, simple past and past participle Carterized)
- (transitive) To make like former US president Jimmy Carter.
- 1982, Commercial West, volume 163, number 1-13, page 8:
- The latest evidence of an executive branch apparently determined to Carterize itself comes in the waffling over gasoline lead regulations.
- 1996, Norman E. Wymbs, Ronald Reagan's crusade, page 327:
- Ronald Reagan, already under attack from news hounds and political commentators as being overly simple in his approach to everything, deftly avoided all their efforts to "Carterize" him and his Christian beliefs and cruised to an easy electoral victory.
- 1998, Rick Ball, Meet the Press: Fifty Years of History in the Making, page 153:
- It would seem to me we'd be Carterizing Reagan policy.
- 2000, John P. Burke, Presidential Transitions: From Politics to Practice, page 348:
- One Clinton strategist grumbled that with so many initiatives in play, "We're worrying about Carterizing ourselves."
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Related terms
- Carterization