pushmi-pullyu
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3ADJ.
dim
VERB + PUSHMI-PULLYU
inarticulate, sort
PUSHMI-PULLYU + NOUN
bee, comprehension, comprehensions, mediates
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noun
A person who behaves in a conflicting or contradictory manner.
This is the age of the Cry-Bully, a hideous hybrid of victim and victor, weeper and walloper. They are everywhere, these duplicit Pushmi-Pullyus of the personal and the political
adj
Conflicting or contradictory.
It's one of the most characteristic behavior patterns of human beings, this pushmepullyou approach to life. We say one thing and do another […]
They don't want some sort of hopeless compromise, some perpetual pushme-pullyou arrangement in which we stay half-in and half-out in a political no man's land - with no more ministers round the table in Brussels and yet forced to obey EU laws.
in teleosemantics, being a representation with both indicative and imperative content.
What […] are the steps from […] the sort of inarticulate pushmi-pullyu comprehensions the bee has and the dim sort of pushmi-pullyu comprehension that mediates responses to behavior releasers, to articulate, well-differentiated, and uncommitted human beliefs and desires […]?
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4This is the age of the Cry-Bully, a hideous hybrid of victim and victor, weeper and walloper. They are everywhere, these duplicit Pushmi-Pullyus of the personal and the political
WiktionaryIt's one of the most characteristic behavior patterns of human beings, this pushmepullyou approach to life. We say one thing and do another […]
WiktionaryThey don't want some sort of hopeless compromise, some perpetual pushme-pullyou arrangement in which we stay half-in and half-out in a political no man's land - with no more ministers round the table
WiktionaryWhat […] are the steps from […] the sort of inarticulate pushmi-pullyu comprehensions the bee has and the dim sort of pushmi-pullyu comprehension that mediates responses to behavior releasers, to arti
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