Example sentences for: mugwumps

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

  • In the 1890s, Mugwumps such as Godkin crusaded for free trade and against tariff protection for corrupt manufacturers.

  • Godkin viewed populists such as William Jennings Bryan as barbarians, and they returned the favor by viewing Mugwumps as enemies rather than as potential allies.

  • The Shearers are also the kind of people Republican mugwumps despise most viscerally: privileged, socially and professionally ambitious dissenters whose liberal-left politics don't prevent them from enjoying the prerogatives of membership in the establishment.

  • Perot and his Concord Coalition allies, the New Englanders Paul Tsongas and Warren Rudman, were as horrified by the federal deficit as the Mugwumps had been appalled by the support of Bryanite populists for bimetallism and as the Liberal Republicans, a generation earlier in the Gilded Age, had been frightened by paper money.

  • (His Frayhandle is "Mugwumps."


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