According to Greer, the voting classes were ready for someone very much like the wonkish Clinton, with his devotion to "the issues."
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Wonkish
Synonyms for "wonkish" (2 found)
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Hillary may have been too wonkish, and Palin not wonkish enough, but they have normalized white females as political candidates for the nation.
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Being a renegade Islamo-punk had run its course, but now I answered brothers' questions in a wonkish intellectual way, ducking and weaving around the truth claims.
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Etzler was a follower of the wonkish French utopian Charles Fourier, who promised that the scientific reinvention of nature would transmute the saltwater into lemonade.
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