"Buckleyesque" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more Buckleyesque [comparative], most Buckleyesque [superlative]
Etymology: From William F. Buckley + -esque. Head templates: {{en-adj}} Buckleyesque (comparative more Buckleyesque, superlative most Buckleyesque)
  1. In the manner of conservative American intellectual William F. Buckley. Wikipedia link: William F. Buckley
    Sense id: en-Buckleyesque-en-adj-YnDsQ~Rn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1978, Mario Pei, Weasel words: the art of saying what you don't mean, page 95:",
          "text": "Kilpatrick expresses some alarm at the fact that the Buckleyesque vocabulary shows signs of being contagious, citing the \"celebrification\" of the Columbia Journalism Review, and, worse yet, a piece on Patty Hearst composed by George Will (a columnist and conservative in his own right) to the effect that \"Patty's arrest provided a coda to a decade of political infantilism, the exegesis of which could be comprehended as a manifestation of bourgeois Weltanschauung.",
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          "ref": "2014, Grace Elizabeth Hale, A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America, →ISBN, page 151:",
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