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Definition of Mugwumps
1. mugwump [n] - See also: mugwump
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mugwumps
Literary usage of Mugwumps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1890)
"THE "mugwumps" AND THE PARTIES. ... are dividing to-day the opinions of that now
pretty distinctive group of American voters who bear the title of mugwumps. ..."
2. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"... CLI MARK TWAIN mugwumps THE Republican Presidential nomination of James G.
Blaine resulted in a political revolt such as the nation had not known. ..."
3. Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz (1913)
"But it seems to me that the criticism passed by the [Indianapolis] Evening News
upon the Eastern mugwumps, as represented by the New York Times, ..."
4. A Hoosier Autobiography by William Dudley Foulke (1922)
"mugwumps In 1896 I read a paper before the Tuesday Club which attracted much
hostile criticism. The people of Richmond had been warm supporters of President ..."
5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1890)
"THE "mugwumps" AND THE PARTIES. ... are dividing to-day the opinions of that now
pretty distinctive group of American voters who bear the title of mugwumps. ..."
6. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"... CLI MARK TWAIN mugwumps THE Republican Presidential nomination of James G.
Blaine resulted in a political revolt such as the nation had not known. ..."
7. Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz (1913)
"But it seems to me that the criticism passed by the [Indianapolis] Evening News
upon the Eastern mugwumps, as represented by the New York Times, ..."
8. A Hoosier Autobiography by William Dudley Foulke (1922)
"mugwumps In 1896 I read a paper before the Tuesday Club which attracted much
hostile criticism. The people of Richmond had been warm supporters of President ..."
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