Bidenesque
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Bidenesque (comparative more Bidenesque, superlative most Bidenesque)
- (US politics) Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of Joe Biden (born 1942), American politician, the 47th vice president and currently serving as the 46th president of the United States.
- 1992, Mark Gitenstein, Matters of Principle: An Insider's Account of America's Rejection of Robert Bork's Nomination to the Supreme Court:
- In a conservative law journal, Thomas explicitly acknowledged Biden's argument in the Bork fight and concluded in almost Bidenesque language, "These rights are inalienable ones given to man by his Creator, and did not simply come from a piece of paper."
- 2019, Doug Jones, Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights, New York, NY: All Points Books, →ISBN, page 332:
- I got to speak for the first time about being on the “right side of history,” a refrain we'd continue to use until the campaign's end, and let the electric crowd know I'd learned much from Biden over the years—“some would say a little too much,” I joked, donning a pair of Bidenesque aviator sunglasses.