Clintonoid

English

Etymology

From Clinton +‎ -oid.

Adjective

Clintonoid (comparative more Clintonoid, superlative most Clintonoid)

1. (derogatory, informal, US) Clintonian: relating to or supporting Bill or Hillary Clinton.
   • 1999, Christopher Hitchens, chapter 3, in No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton:

     Which Clintonoid columnist or propagandist did not employ this dramatic phrase, as their hero found himself at the mercy, not of a law 'n' order Democrat on the approved model, but of a law 'n' order Republican?

   • 2005, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey, The Limits of Law, →ISBN, page 89:

     But this, he asserted, "does not require the rhetoric of reparations," and it fit what he called "the Clintonoid tenor of sappy public apologies and maudlin psychobabble about collective pain and healing."

   • 2018, Adolph L. Reed Jr., “Foreword”, in Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement:

     Clintonoid liberals have their own narratives that minimize the lessons to be drawn from Trump's victory.

Noun

Clintonoid (plural Clintonoids)

1. (derogatory, informal, US) A Clintonite.
   • 1995, Michael Cliff Kellett, The Murder of Vince Foster, page 135:

     A Clintonoid would be able to easily dismiss it as just some sort of clerical error if it weren't so logically cohesive.

   • 2002, Chronicles - Volume 26, page 4:

     Samuel Francis sounds like a Clintonoid in his column "Will Europe Survive?" (Principalities & Powers, August).

   • 2016, Ted Rall for Counterpunch, Hey, Clintonoids, Stop Bullying Me About My Vote:

     Hey, Clintonoids, Stop Bullying Me About My Vote