Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is unduly attached to his own opinions.
- noun [capitalized] One of a religious body in the fifteenth century which rejected the Pope because he did not conform to the poverty of Jesus Christ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Speaking of wealthy welfare, I heard a news "opinionist" ask if there weren't some weathy people out there who would pitch in to save the AIG since they were the beneficiaries of the current crisis ... no-one ponied up.
How Dare They Spend Trillions on Corporate Welfare, Without...? 2008
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Organised by Metro magazine, the Metro Mayoral Super Quiz is under the adjudication of renowned 'opinionist' Te Radar.
NZ On Screen 2010
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Organised by Metro magazine, the Metro Mayoral Super Quiz is under the adjudication of renowned 'opinionist' Te Radar.
NZ On Screen 2010
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Its not likely to happen, it will put too many 'opinionist's' out of work.
Nicholas D. Kristof 2009
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It may take time but how can a nation who fights a war against the Psychopathic Opinionist behind 9/11 continue to allow homegrown opinionist groups to push their ways on all here at home?
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MORE WISHFUL THINKING -- Wall Street Journal opinionist William McGurn hears a "deafening roar" in "Barack Obama's silence on the future of school reform in the District of Columbia."
DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 5, 2010 Mike DeBonis 2010
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Jim Newton is fifty times too in awe of wealth and power to be a halfway decent opinionist.
Nominations for the Los Angeles Political Ass Clown Award of 2009 2009
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ABC ought to fire him now, or start identifying him on-air as a pundit or opinionist.
Laurie David: Stossel's "Myths" May Be on the Bestseller List, But They Don't Belong on ABC 2008
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He's a conservative opinionist, but I should think liberals, too, will find this piece amusing.
ianrandalstrock's Journal ianrandalstrock 2008
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He is a novellist and opinionist first and foremost with a new line in academicist but he is surely not a "fascist" if that is you give that word the weight that those who use it around say food and body image deny it.
Sunny Hundal vs Martin Amis: Hundal Says "He's a Bigoted and Ignorant Fool" Amis Says "Who He?" 2007
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