[Ads-l] extremist-adjacent

[Jonathan Lighter]

Deadline White House, MSNBC:

"How sort of extremist-adjacent some of [the members of Congress] were."

Another one of those lexicosyntactical shortcuts. Cf. "food-insecure,"
"shovel-ready," etc.

Etc.
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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