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
  • Sophie Okonedo and Queen Charlotte’s India Amarteifio play the title character, whose political idealism has curdled into middle-class ennui.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
  • There are some politics in Hard Labor, but seasoned with the irony of the worker, rather than the idealism of the intellectual.
    — Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

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“Meliorism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meliorism. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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