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Example sentences for: whig

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

I did think you unfair in characterizing it as "Whig History for the PC era, full of paeans to same-sex love," and so on.
To return to Johnson and Webster, we may cite pension, Tory , and Whig as illustrative samples of a good many politically charged entries.
The article Politicking With Words , with its references to rival definitions of Whig and Tory , put me in mind of a cartoon that appeared in Punch in 1896 (since republished in a collection--I don't go back quite that far).
Johnson dismissively defines Whig as the name of a faction and spitefully remarks that the term derives from whigamore denoting people from south-west counties of Scotland, whose poverty drove them to rise against the court and Scottish royal authority etc.
This is Whig History for the PC era, full of paeans to same-sex love, sweeping generalizations about emotional needs, attacks on present-day lack of civility, and you-go-girl!