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Noun- The views and practices of a person of importance.

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  • But "mugwumpery" as a description of Roosevelt's thought is particularly unsatisfying.
  • Austin liked it and Ryle approved of ˜Prior's complete lack of mugwumpery™.
  • Your mugwumpery and apologias lead naturally to the question of whether you're a stockholder.
  • The sordid necessity of seeing Hinchey taught him afresh the folly of his dabbling in politics at all, and his whole being revolted against the contact with humanity in the raw...
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