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  • noun UK, slang, pejorative The behaviour of a muppet; foolish incompetence.

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muppet +‎ -ry

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Examples

  • On the one hand, in Texas of all places, we have a police chief embarrassed and ashamed at the authoritarian high muppetry of one of his officers, and acting very quickly and publicly to remove that officer from duty.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Dave 2009

  • If you participated in this debate instead of getting hung up on irrelevant islamic muppetry you might see a fairly substantial increase in site traffic.

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • On the one hand, in Texas of all places, we have a police chief embarrassed and ashamed at the authoritarian high muppetry of one of his officers, and acting very quickly and publicly to remove that officer from duty.

    Good Cop, Bad Cop Boris 2009

  • Back room muppetry being largely to blame for any real mistakes.

    Archive 2008-01-27 2008

  • This is a rather hilarious piece of brazen muppetry or complete ignorance from Amir's management actually.

    Archive 2008-04-20 2008

  • Back room muppetry being largely to blame for any real mistakes.

    Back Room: Mix of Incompetence and 2008

  • This is a rather hilarious piece of brazen muppetry or complete ignorance from Amir's management actually.

    Amir Khan: Great Boxer Needs Sense of Humour 2008

  • Gary calls such muppetry a "slack whack" or a "slightly slack whack" in the rules, which are very tight.

    Blogsclusive: Tory Boys Never Grow Up Comments 2008

  • Thanks to Iain Dale for spotting the muppetry in his own erstwhile organ.

    Michael Gove: Dripping Scab on Poxy Arsehole of Tory Humanity 2008

  • The massive muppetry of the other six commenters at the time of beginning this post was particularly demonstrated by 1.

    Greater Manchester Future: Turn Out Just Over 30% So Far 2008

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