cute hoorism

noun

Cunning, trickery, cleverness, especially in negative sense: finagling, cynical self-interest.

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Meanings

nouncute hoorism (uncountable)
  1. IrelanduncountableCunning, trickery, cleverness, especially in negative sense: finagling, cynical self-interest.

    On a positive note, the Rechthaberei culture has bred a society of remarkable, dogged fairness – the opposite of cute hoorism.

    2010 August 21, Irish Times
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    Some of the articles in this volume point to a culture of individusalism and ‘cute hoorism’ – where people try to get the political system to work for their own individual desires rather than for broad policy changes.

    2007, McGrath & O'Malley, Irish Political Studies Reader, page 7

Origin

From cute hoor + -ism.

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