pollutician
English
Etymology
Blend of pollution + politician.
Noun
pollutician (plural polluticians)
- (derogatory) A politician who supports policies and initiatives that result in environmental damage.
- 2001, Peter Casey, 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account, Bloomsbury (2008), →ISBN, page 211:
- Here the polluticians and the developers carved up the cake with gusto.
- 2001, Peter Casey, 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account, Bloomsbury (2008), →ISBN, page 211:
- (sometimes derogatory) A politician who supports policies and initiatives designed to reduce environmental pollution.
- 1971, Electroplating and Metal Finishing, Volume 24:
- Too many owners of factory chimneys have already capitulated to the negative attitude of the polluticians and have converted to smokeless fuels.
- 1971, Electroplating and Metal Finishing, Volume 24:
- (derogatory) A corrupt politician
- 2005, Jalani A. Niaah, "Absent Father(s), Garvey's Scattered Children and the Back to Africa Movement", in Negotiating Modernity: Africa's Ambivalent Experience, (ed. Elísio Salvado Macamo), Codesria (2005), →ISBN, page 24:
- Indeed the Rastafarian brethren contend that the '"polluticians" [politicians] are selling us out' for their own self-serving interests.
- 2005, Jalani A. Niaah, "Absent Father(s), Garvey's Scattered Children and the Back to Africa Movement", in Negotiating Modernity: Africa's Ambivalent Experience, (ed. Elísio Salvado Macamo), Codesria (2005), →ISBN, page 24:
Quotations
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:pollutician.
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