faddism

Example Sentences

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Vaping is a cultural punchline and a kind of shorthand for obnoxious faddism, and so, apparently, are these socks.

From Slate • Jan. 29, 2019

That made “wedges” vulnerable to faddism and footloose about the real economics.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2011

The new approach, they fear, could eliminate incentives to hard work and undercut liberal education with academic faddism.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he later switched to stereo and small speakers not out of mere faddism but because they were better.

From Time Magazine Archive

It will be seen that the education of the Humboldts was what the Boylston Professor of English at Harvard calls "faddism, or the successful effort at flabbiness."

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