pollutician

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noun

A politician who supports policies and initiatives that result in environmental damage.

Scrabble 15

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nounpollutician (plural polluticians)

plural polluticians

  1. derogatoryA politician who supports policies and initiatives that result in environmental damage.

    Here the polluticians and the developers carved up the cake with gusto.

    2001, Peter Casey, 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account, Bloomsbury, published 2008, →ISBN, page 211
  2. derogatorysometimesA politician who supports policies and initiatives designed to reduce environmental pollution.

    Too many owners of factory chimneys have already capitulated to the negative attitude of the polluticians and have converted to smokeless fuels.

    1971, Electroplating and Metal Finishing, volume 24
  3. derogatoryA corrupt politician

    Indeed the Rastafarian brethren contend that the '"polluticians" [politicians] are selling us out' for their own self-serving interests.

    2005, Jalani A. Niaah, “Absent Father(s), Garvey's Scattered Children and the Back to Africa Movement”, in Elísio Salvado Macamo, editor, Negotiating Modernity: Africa's Ambivalent Experience, Codesria, →ISBN, page 24

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