finger-pointy

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of pointing a finger or fingers; prone or tending to point a finger or fingers. informal
    — “She had gold teeth in front, wore a long braid and spoke in argumentative, finger-pointy Cantonese,” Olivia [Wu] remembers.
  2. Characterized by finger-pointing (the making of accusations; the assigning of blame); prone or tending to accuse or assign blame. figuratively,informal
    — Telling too much of the truth so as to expose the naked hand of power and its interests, calling things finger-pointy descriptions like male dominance, white supremacy, capitalism (I repeat, where is the U.S. Left? Did all these people really just disappear with the collapse of the Soviet Union?), going too much against the grain, especially against views embraced by the mainstream media—which has taken over much of the function of credentialing the intelligentsia that the academy used to exercise—this is the danger zone.

词形变化

more finger-pointy comparative most finger-pointy superlative finger pointy alternative fingerpointy alternative

词源

From finger-point (verb) and finger point (noun) + -y.
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