Papish

Word PAPISH
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When something or someone is not that good. Urban Dictionary

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The word "papish" in example sentences

The papish corner of the web is awash in stories that the Holy Father is going to de-excommunicate the SSPX bishops practically immediately if not sooner. ❋ John (2009)

Synagogue as innocuously papish as the last phases of the Oxford movement. ❋ Various (N/A)

We know not what is meant by "papish bookes and pictures," but the Puritan Lord Say may not have discriminated sharply between them and the books and ornaments of the High Party in the Church of England. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. ❋ Victor Hugo (1843)

It is to attack the sceptre in the name of the throne, and the mitre in the name of the attar; it is to ill-treat the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. ❋ Unknown (2008)

_papish_; but I keep it to myself, and nobody's the wiser nor the worse -- they'd tear me to pieces, may be, did they suspect _the like_, but I keep never minding, and you, jewel, do the like. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

Mulligan a gentleman’s gentleman that had but come from Mr Moore’s the writer’s (that was a papish but is now, folk say, a good Williamite) chanced against Alec. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"caused diverse popish bookes and pictures taken out of churches, and of papish houses, here and abroad, to be burned in the street over against the signe of the Starre, where his Lordship laye." ❋ Unknown (1881)

Mulligan a gentleman's gentleman that had but come from Mr Moore's the writer's (that was a papish but is now, folk say, ❋ James Joyce (1911)

"I can only take him to the gates, sir; unfortunately there's no entrance there for a papish, Captain Phil; if we could only get him to turn Protestant, sir, it's himself 'ud get the warm welcome. ❋ William Carleton (1831)

-- A crafty ape dressed up in a gaudy gown -- whips put into an ape's paw, to play pranks with -- none but apish and papish brats will heed him. [ ❋ Alexander Pope (1716)

" Melissa: what did you [think about that] [taco]? [Sabine]:I thought it was poopish papish." ❋ Tanisha Lala (2008)

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