"dog-whistly" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "dog whistle + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dog-whistlier",
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    },
    {
      "form": "dog-whistliest",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 August 1, Melissa McEwan, “McCain blows the dog whistle”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "But the difference between the \"bimbo ad\" (which was also a Republican production) and the McCain advert is that the former was explicit in its miscegenation message, whereas the latter is more, well, dog-whistly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Dana Andersen, \"Letter: Dems ‘blew it’ alright\", Post Independent (Glenwood Springs, CO), 20 February 2018",
          "text": "The dog-whistley Make America Great Again has given us Donald J. Trump, the great white hope, undoer of all-things-Obama."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Jeremiah Moss, Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York, unnumbered page",
          "text": "While there are reasons to complain about fireworks—they're loud, they can hurt people and cause fires—the tenor of the collective complaint becomes racialized and dog-whistly, spiked with cries for \"law and order.\"",
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        "Of, relating to, or characteristic of dog-whistle politics."
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        "(informal) Of, relating to, or characteristic of dog-whistle politics."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "dogwhistly"
        },
        {
          "word": "dogwhistley"
        },
        {
          "word": "dog-whistley"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "dog-whistly"
}

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    },
    {
      "form": "dog-whistliest",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Politics"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 August 1, Melissa McEwan, “McCain blows the dog whistle”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "But the difference between the \"bimbo ad\" (which was also a Republican production) and the McCain advert is that the former was explicit in its miscegenation message, whereas the latter is more, well, dog-whistly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Dana Andersen, \"Letter: Dems ‘blew it’ alright\", Post Independent (Glenwood Springs, CO), 20 February 2018",
          "text": "The dog-whistley Make America Great Again has given us Donald J. Trump, the great white hope, undoer of all-things-Obama."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Jeremiah Moss, Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York, unnumbered page",
          "text": "While there are reasons to complain about fireworks—they're loud, they can hurt people and cause fires—the tenor of the collective complaint becomes racialized and dog-whistly, spiked with cries for \"law and order.\"",
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        "Of, relating to, or characteristic of dog-whistle politics."
      ],
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        "(informal) Of, relating to, or characteristic of dog-whistle politics."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "dogwhistly"
    },
    {
      "word": "dogwhistley"
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    {
      "word": "dog-whistley"
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  "word": "dog-whistly"
}