different between pollutician vs unpolitical

English

Etymology

Blend of pollution +? politician.

Noun

pollutician (plural polluticians)

1. (derogatory) A politician who supports policies and initiatives that result in environmental damage.
   • 2001, Peter Casey, 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account, Bloomsbury (2008), ?ISBN, page 211:

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

2. (sometimes derogatory) A politician who supports policies and initiatives designed to reduce environmental pollution.
   • 1971, Electroplating and Metal Finishing, Volume 24:

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

3. (derogatory) A corrupt politician
   • 2005, Jalani A. Niaah, "Absent Father(s), Garvey's Scattered Children and the Back to Africa Movement", in Negotiating Modernity: Africa's Ambivalent Experience, (ed. Elísio Salvado Macamo), Codesria (2005), ?ISBN, page 24:

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

Quotations

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Anagrams

• unpolitical

English

Etymology

un- +? political

Adjective

unpolitical (comparative more unpolitical, superlative most unpolitical)

1. Not political

Translations

Anagrams

• pollutician