[Ads-l] generalistic, adj.

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Sep 11 11:41:38 UTC 2016


Hillary Clinton ventured yesterday to be "grossly generalistic."

Not in OED.

'Generalizing or sweeping in one's appraisal.'

This prompts me to invent "generalistics," n., meaning 'general situation
or condition.'

JL

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