more equal
adjEtymology
Coined by George Orwell in 1945; see Animal Farm quotation below.
Definitions
Ostensibly equal, but more privileged in reality.
- All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
- ... men who supposedly enjoyed equality and freedom, but in fact did not. The rich more equal than the poor at Strasbourg? ... is there a gap between what human rights say they do and what they actually do?
- 2007, Mark Knoller, President Bush Rides In Style, CBS News All the world leaders at the G-8 Summit are supposed to be equal in stature. But in some ways, President George W. Bush is more equal than others.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for more equal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA