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Meaning of wet-blanketry | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The discouraging attitude of a wet blanket.

uncountable

Examples

“Our suggestions that any surviving Americans would be likely to have their hands more than full at home was received as so much wet-blanketry. The Americans, they assured us, would never have allowed such a thing to happen in their country.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

wet-bulb temperature wet-leasing wet-noodle wet-nurse wet-rot wet-sanding