MLMish

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From MLM (multi-level marketing) +‎ -ish.

Adjective[edit]

MLMish (comparative more MLMish, superlative most MLMish)

  1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of a multi-level marketing (MLM) system.
    • 1999 September 13, Deborah Stevenson, “Re: What's Wrong Is Wrong”, in rec.equestrian[1] (Usenet):
      [> who is this annoying twit?]
      Somebody plugging one of those annoying MLMish ads-all-over sites where you get credit for dragging people in.
    • 2002 July 10, Ben Bradley, “Re: Monster Cable Sues Madmartian.com”, in rec.audio.pro[2] (Usenet):
      I wouldn't want a "dot-biz" domain name anyway, the word "biz" looks too spammish, MLMish and pyramid-schemish to me.
    • 2003 May 3, Jester, “Re: Merchant accounts? Looong”, in alt.wholesale[3] (Usenet):
      I'm totally paraphrasing here, but the whole "points" thing spooked me a bit, seemed MLMish to me.