Definitions for Whiggish

Whiggish Whig·gish

Spelling: [hwig-ish, wig-]
IPA: /ˈʰwɪg ɪʃ, ˈwɪg-/

Whiggish is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in Whiggish (gghhiisw).

Definitions for Whiggish

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Whigs or Whiggism.
  2. inclined to Whiggism.

Origin of Whiggish

First recorded in 1670-80; Whig + -ish1

Examples for Whiggish

I asked Hardinge last night what he thought of it, and he said it struck him as ‘too Whiggish.’

Mr. Cheeseman shed a tear, and put on a new apron, and entirely reformed his political views, which had been loose and Whiggish.

Although, therefore, the class might be Whiggish, it did not share the strongest revolutionary passions.

His passions, on the contrary, were violent even to slaying against all who leaned to Whiggish principles.

Finally, Obama weighed in with his teleological view of the historical process, revealing a rather optimistic and Whiggish view.

For the Tories this tap represented all that was most loathsome, most repulsive, most Whiggish.

The Dunces were middle-class and Whiggish, their spirit capitalist.

"Jersey will be the most Whiggish colony on the continent," writes an officer of this corps of Cadwalader's.

As far, however, as he could be said to have any opinions, his opinions were Whiggish.

What kind of Whiggish, canting talk is this, for the house of Cluny Macpherson?

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