Hitlerlike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Hitler +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

Hitlerlike (comparative more Hitlerlike, superlative most Hitlerlike)

  1. Resembling Adolf Hitler (genocidal dictator of Germany) or his actions or policies.
    • 1971, Henry Agard Wallace, Christian Bases of World Order, page 14:
      It is not up to the United Nations to say just what the German schools of the future should teach, and we do not want to be guilty of a Hitlerlike orgy of book burning.
    • 2011, Harold Brodkey, The Runaway Soul:
      He's the master of adult corruptions—not all adult corruptions—but it's funny how Hitlerlike most people are.