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Meaning of Lewinskian | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Of, relating to, or reminiscent of Monica Lewinsky, who was involved in a 1998 sex scandal with US President Bill Clinton.

Examples

“Did you know that probing the seamy underbelly of US lexicography reveals ideological strife and controversy and intrigue and nastiness and fervor on a near-Lewinskian scale?”

“One journalist notoriously announced that she herself would have been happy to perform a Lewinskian service for the president in gratitude for his having kept abortion legal […]”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Lewisian lexemic lexic lexical lexicalic lexicalisable