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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:
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!
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.
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.
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).
To return to Johnson and Webster, we may cite pension, Tory , and Whig as illustrative samples of a good many politically charged entries.