meliorism

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Recent Examples of meliorism Under their malign sway, as cost-benefit analysis became codified in government bureaus and standards of jurisprudence, previously bold Democrats reduced their dreams for betterment to feeble meliorism. Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022 Goodhart reckons the positional nature of status — man’s envy plays a part in this puzzle, mind you — and the kind of economic meliorism that the center-left of his formative years applies to income inequality may fail to do the trick this time. Jorge González-Gallarza Hernández, National Review, 6 Dec. 2020 To its critics, this modesty and meliorism represent cowardice. Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meliorism
idealism
Noun
  • Once that’s taken care of, The Diplomat uses their united presence to conjure The West Wing’s hope-core fantasy of liberal political idealism while also laughing at it.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Much of the earlier idealism about asylums had soured as the 19th century ended, explained Bazar with the National Museum of Psychology.
    Jen Rose Smith, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Meliorism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meliorism. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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