Fauxgressive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /fəʊˈɡɹɛsɪv/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fauxgressive is a noun meaning (politics, derogatory) An alleged progressive person, but who actually acts like a conservative.
Meaning
(politics, derogatory) An alleged progressive person, but who actually acts like a conservative.
More Meanings
- (politics, derogatory) Allegedly, but not actually, progressive.
Example Sentences
With their fauxgressive covers officially blown, Twitter is blowing up with stories about the disturbing new dating trend.
“Bill de Blasio is an elitist, New York City corporate Democrat fauxgressive, masquerading around South Carolina as a progressive,” said John Samuelson, president of Transport Workers Union.
In many spaces, the term functions now as performative fauxgressive politeness—as one of the many buzzwords such as intersectionality or systemic that one can drop, with little understanding, to display her wokeness.
Word Forms
- fauxgressives
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include antiprogressive, brogressive, retrogressive, anticonservative, pseudoenvironmentalist, antiprogressionist.
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