单词 | motive-mongering |
释义 | > as lemmasmotive-mongering motive-mongering n. and adj. (a) n. uncritical or indiscriminate ascription of motives; (b) adj. ascribing motives uncritically or indiscriminately. ΚΠ a1819 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1998) IV. 855 O what a lesson concerning..the folly of all motive-mongering, while the individual self remains. 1863 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 32/1 Our motive-mongering friends should understand that they can explain no farther than their neighbors. 1940 C. W. Mills in Amer. Sociol. Rev. 5 910 There is no way to plumb behind verbalization into an individual and directly check our motive-mongering. < as lemmas |
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