Example sentences for: clintonesque

How can you use “clintonesque” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He's positively Clintonesque in his attentions.

  • Our editor suggested to me yesterday that it's a somewhat Clintonesque marriage--Tony has a mistress whom he fucks rather joylessly and with whom he never has an actual conversation, but he's really dependent on his wife (although unlike with our president, you have the sense that Tony screws around mostly because that's what mob bosses are supposed to do rather than out of real need).

  • The magazine explains why the president's poll numbers are so high: 1) he courts them ("like a kid who gets straight A's by flattering the teacher"); and 2) polling questions are phrased with a calculation and nuance that are positively, well, Clintonesque.

  • At times, Lewinsky's dexterity is eerily Clintonesque.

  • The WP is good on the particular politics of Clinton's Social Security proposals, saying that it is classically Clintonesque in that it preserves the program's size but only by accepting something that was anathema to earlier Democrats--partial privatization.


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