Topic List - Government & Politics - The Unword Dictionary

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a. (adv.) The privilege of allowing people to listen to oneself, even if they don't know what one is talking about.

Example: My mother was speaking Algoreickly about computers.

a. (n.) [Bureauacnophobia] is, as the name suggests, a phobia. One is not born with this phobia. Rather it is caused by one or more bad experiences with a bureaucrat or several bureaucrats, which make one frightened of them. A cure for this is not know at this time because it is difficult to work will any bureaucrats as they feel threatened by someone with this kind of phobia. A suggested course of action could follow the treatment of Arachnophobia (sans interaction with). Credited: B Dodd, September 3, 1998.

a. (v.tr.) To get something very wrong, in any area of life.

Example: Seems that you've Bushified that one, Prime Minister.

a. (n.) The combining of words into an unword that displays the user's attempt at verbal prowess.

Example: A sample Bushism: After a hard day of "applicating" for jobs, I am still unemployed.

a. (n.) Someone who is affiliated with the communist party; who symphatizes with communist; someone un-American.

Note: You have to be about a couple hundred years dead to not know what a commie is.

a. (n.) A political affiliation that crosses between a communist and a capitalist ideal. It is often used in describing the current state of Chinese society.

a. (v.tr.) To advertise and promote political causes by death.

Example: Terrorism is nothing but the art of deadvertising.

a. (n.) Requiring meticulous analysis to verify the environmental credentials of "green" products or services, while not applying the same or greater level of rigor in assessing the environmental impact of all other products or services.
b. (n.) Expecting green technologies to compete on an uneven playing field.

Example: I sense a bit of disgreenimation in that infrastructure for electricity from conventional sources was funded by the state via the tax system, solar photovoltaic/hot water systems are installed at the expense of householders who choose to install them, only sometimes with partial subsidy.
c. (n.) Using economic or social arguments in isolation to justify a particular action which has a range of negative environmental consequences.

Example: Senator John Doe expressed extreme disgreenimation when he told voters that, "Building this gas-powered plastic refinery plant creates jobs and earns export revenue."

a. (v.) To advertise by using dreadful tactics; to engage in military propaganda.

Example: There are skilled dreadvertisers within our government system.

a. (n.) An election stricken with a case of dyslexia, often referring to the infamous mix-up in the Presidential Election of 2000. One might say the Y2K bug actually happened in this case.

a. (n.) Political dogma espoused by anyone whose intellectual credentials are derived solely from his experience in professional sports or the entertainment industry.

a. (n.) An ignorant person; abbreviated form of ignoramus.
b. (acro.) I've Got My Orders. A rueful to matter-of-fact commentary by a person executing a decision of others that may not seem sensible to the speaker or addressee.

a. (n.) Government, usually indirectly, by the popular media; often a result of democracy going awry. A system in which politicians stop thinking and begin listening exclusively to the media regarding what the important issues are and what they should do about them.

a. (v.) To hobnob or schmooze, generally used in reference to political functions.

a. (n.) The practice of saluting to make a person salute back. Often taken advantage of by persons in the military; similar to bowbaktry.

a. (adj.) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a speaker giving a speech without proof or evidence to back up his/her argument.

Example: The President has soapboxiomatic tendencies when it comes to his position on the War in Iraq.

a. (n.) A white collar crime.

Example: After that presidential pardon that case was nothing less than a stainless steal.

a. (n.) God, having absolute power, wins and everybody else loses, specifically in the case of religious governments. Otherwise known as theocracy.

a. (n.) The power of visual images in shaping contemporary societies; the crucial impact of television, cinema, internet, and advertising on public opinion, political affairs, market strategies, etc.

Example: Ideocracy is dead. The so-called communist countries are communist no longer. Was it the power of democratic ideals or American-style videocracy that ended the communist utopia? Perhaps videocracy has become an indispensable part of democracy in the media age.

a. (n.pl.) Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Example: Everyone thinks that Iran is developing WMDs.

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