Mugwumpery

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mugwumpery \Mug"wump`er*y\, Mugwumpism \Mug"wump*ism\, n.
     The acts and views of the mugwumps. [Political Cant, U.S.]
     [1913 Webster] Muhammadan

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "mugwumpery":
     abstention, ambitendency, ambivalence, anythingarianism,
     capriciousness, change of mind, changeableness, cop-out,
     double-mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, evasion, fence-sitting,
     fence-straddling, fickleness, impartiality, inconstancy,
     indecision, indecisiveness, independence, infirmity of purpose,
     instability, irresolution, mercuriality, mugwumpism, neutralism,
     neutrality, nonalignment, noncommitment, noninvolvement,
     nonpartisanism, nothingarianism, second thoughts,
     strict neutrality, tergiversation, uncertainty, undecidedness,
     undeterminedness, unsettledness, unsettlement