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A review of some terms useful in political analysis & polemics</div>
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buzzword, condescension, disingenuous </div>
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buzzword</div>
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<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 26.4px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">buzz·word</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> (bŭz′wûrd′)</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">An stylish or trendy word or phrase, especially when occurring in a specialized field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">— American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 26.4px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);" class="">buzz•word</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #f8f8f8" class=""> (ˈbʌzˌwɜrd)
</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #f8f8f8" class=""><i class="">n.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #f8f8f8" class="">a word or phrase, often sounding authoritative or technical, that has come into vogue in popular culture or a particular profession.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #f8f8f8" class="">[1965–70]</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">— Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">buzzword</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">— A word used in a particular jargon that gains a wider, fashionable, currency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited</span></div>
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condesension</div>
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<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 26.4px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">con·de·scen·sion</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> (kŏn′dĭ-sĕn′shən)</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">1.
</b>The act of condescending or an instance of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">2.
</b>Patronizingly superior behavior or attitude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">[Late Latin </span>
<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">condēscēnsiō, condēscēnsiōn-</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">,
from </span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">condēscēnsus</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">,
past participle of </span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">condēscendere</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">,
<i class="">to condescend</i>; see <b class="">condescend</b>.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #f8f8f8" class="">the act or an instance of behaving in a patronizing way</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © </span></div>
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ʃən) </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">n.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">1.
</b>an act or instance of condescending.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">2.
</b>behavior that is patronizing or condescending.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">3.
</b>voluntary assumption of equality with a person regarded as inferior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">[1635–45; < Late Latin
<i class="">condēscēnsiō</i>. See <a href="https://www.thefreedictionary.com/con" class="">
<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #2484c6" class=""><b class="">con</b></span></a>-,
<a href="https://www.thefreedictionary.com/descension" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #2484c6" class=""><b class="">descension</b></span></a>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #404040; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">1.
</b>Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">"Increasingly, the question of immigration has become a disingenuous stalking-horse for race and racial hostility"</i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #404040; background-color: #ffffff" class="">
(</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">Tyler Stovall</i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #404040; background-color: #ffffff" class="">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">2.
</b>Pretending to be unaware or unsophisticated; faux-naïf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">3.
</b><i class="">Usage Problem</i> Unaware or uninformed; naive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">dis′in·gen′u·ous·ly</b>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">dis′in·gen′u·ous·ness</b>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Usage Note: </i>
</b><i class="">Disingenuous</i> means "not ingenuous," that is, not innocent, naive, or guileless. As such it can refer to someone who is insincere or calculating, as in
<i class="">It is both insensitive and disingenuous for the White House to describe its aid package and the proposal to eliminate the federal payment as "tough love,"</i> or to someone who is pretending to be unsophisticated, as in
<i class="">"I don't have a clue about late Beethoven!" he said. The remark seemed disingenuous, coming from one of the world's foremost concert pianists.</i> Both of these examples were accepted by 90 percent of the Usage Panel in our 2016 survey. As with
many words containing prefixes that negate (<i class="">dis-</i>) or seem to negate (<i class="">in-</i>), speakers sometimes lose track of exactly what is being negated, and sometimes use
<i class="">disingenuous</i> when <i class="">ingenuous</i> would be more appropriate, namely as a synonym for
<i class="">naive.</i> This usage is considered an error by careful writers: in our 2016 survey, 87 percent of the Usage Panel disapproved of the phrase
<i class="">the disingenuous tourist who falls prey to stereotypical con artists.</i></span></div>
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