popularistn.adj.

1882 Times 12 Jan. 5/3 Saving, however, the Social Democrats and the Popularists, with a brace or so of aspiring Danes, the House could not be brought to see present reason in the motion.

1895 19th Cent. Sept. 526 There she finds two sorts of women: if I am allowed to use two Russianisms, she finds the ‘careerist’, and the ‘popularist’.

1921 Sandusky (Ohio) Star Jrnl. 17 May 1/4 It was believed the coalition would have eight or nine members from Rose, three or four socialists, three popularists.

1956 G. Woodcock Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ix. 278 In America, Proudhonian echoes can be found in the financial reform ideas of the Populists and in the homebred anarchism of the Wobblies.

1981 Time Mag. (Nexis) 9 Feb. 94 To dramatize a complex and tragic history, whether of Asia, America, Europe or Africa, is beyond the powers of all but a few popularists.

1995 H. S. Davidson Schooling in ‘Total Institution’ i. 7 Authoritarian popularists are kept at bay by the more mainstream conservative parties incorporating the Right's agendas into legislation.

1999 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Nov. 25 Following the example set by those great popularists the Spice Girls, can I recommend that the new Blair is named Tuscany.

1882 Times 14 Jan. 5/3 Though also supported by several Popularist and Progressist Deputies, it will, of course, be voted to the wastepaper basket.

1922 New Witness 25 Aug. 120/2 The P.P.I. must now be reckoned with as the most powerful political force in Italy... When one comes finally to examine the main points in the Popularist programme, one meets old friends often discussed in these pages.

1962 Listener 5 Apr. 585/2 The popularist fear of going into Europe is the fear of being swamped in another Holy Roman Empire.

1970 Guardian Weekly 14 Nov. 3/4 There is no doubt that, after two years of passive and effacingly popularist administration, the President of All the People [sc. Nixon] tried to become President of Most of the People; a President who saw an opening to the..right.

2005 Independent (Nexis) 10 Mar. 39 The London sophisticates..seem to have forgotten the roots of commercial TV's success in Britain as a popularist mix of game shows, soaps and bought in American pap.