Meaning of Gradgrindian | Babel Free

Definitions

Having a soulless devotion to facts and figures; inflexibly utilitarian.

Examples

“But today's winning businesses are positively Gradgrindian in their pursuit of the truth.”

“Whether one favours a Gradgrindian Thatcherism that removes all worker rights, or a Corbynista fantasy of wholesale nationalisation, we will find these are impossible, given the reach of the Brussels acquis.”

“But I have never quite got my head around my times tables, which I think are a Gradgrindian chanting fetish periodically revived by politicians who, if they are honest with themselves, have never really needed times tables either.”

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