Wet-blanketry
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The discouraging attitude of a wet blanket. uncountable
"Our suggestions that any surviving Americans would be likely to have their hands more than full at home was received as so much wet-blanketry. The Americans, they assured us, would never have allowed such a thing to happen in their country."
Example
More examples"Our suggestions that any surviving Americans would be likely to have their hands more than full at home was received as so much wet-blanketry. The Americans, they assured us, would never have allowed such a thing to happen in their country."
Etymology
From wet blanket + -ry.
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