skunkery

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A place where skunks are raised.

   • In fact, he will take pride in his calling , and will not “whimper” when asked about his skunkery.
   • In Michigan, a skunkery promises such profits that within a generation an aristocratic family will be founded as notable as that of the Astors or the Vanderbilts.
   • This is why it seems desirable to establish a skunkery close to or in a city. Even in the country the neighbors will help out. The farmers will be only too […]
2. 2

   A place, activity, or institution occupied or instituted by despicable or skunkish people.

   • a skunkery . Platforms, manifestoes, utopianisms, factional vendettas — all were trivial beside the sufferings in Flanders and on the seas, the lacerations inflicted both by the crook and the idealist.
   • Some Perry county Democrats believed the term skunk was a fitting description for the Republican Party, so they offered the noble Democratic citizens of Alabama versus the "skunkery” as a proper epithet for the 1870 elections.
3. 3

   skunkish behavior.

   • "Treachery? You meant skunkery, didn't you? "
   • It is easy to be wise and cocksure 200 years after the events that I hesitate to write yet; I do not know enough, but I do know that skunks in power make him a scapegoat and murdered him for their own dirty skunkery and its results.
   • A packed jury and a judge interested in the case, is mere skunkery.
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   1. 4

      A bad smell.

      • The inflation in business, the blah in economics, the asinine instruction in literature, are all of a perfume, a whorefume, a skunkery, of one smell, of one root at bottom.·

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