单词 | rule-mongering |
释义 | > as lemmasrule-mongering rule-mongering n. and adj. ΚΠ 1803 Adviser 3 ciii. 328 He..despised the precepts of routine following, and rule-mongering blockheads. 1917 H. E. Cory Edmund Spencer vii. 417 Joseph Spence..did something to supplement Hughes' attempt to close up this gap in French rule-mongering. 1974 B. F. Dukore Dramatic Theory & Crit. 208 He shared some of the premises of the rule-mongering critics. 1993 Internat. Jrnl. Politics, Culture, & Soc. 7 336 Student protesters took to the streets..to demonstrate their generation's limited patience with the petty authoritarianism and inane rule-mongering of local Party officials. 2002 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 7 June 6 Mr. McCoy's anti-white animosities set off a bitter teacher's strike that helped create the rule-mongering teachers union we have today. < as lemmas |
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