Dorothy Parker once noted that “the only ‘ism’ Hollywood cares about is plagiarism.”
The storm of conflicting opinions centers on the Mrs. Thatcher who became a symbolic figure, even an ‘ism.’
The ism Purchasing Managers Index indicated that the manufacturing sector is expanding smartly.
No bruised feelings involved, no accusation of an -ism, and no conceivable way of salvaging the “brand.”
The ism reported that its purchasing managers index for manufacturing in October was 51.7, a bit higher than September.
I think I can't do better than inaugurate my new 'ism' by lunching there to-day.
To her the personal element in a creed is of more importance than the ism.
That is what everybody says when they want to prove any theory, creed, ism, or anything.
The point is, you must do it; no "ism" or esoteric agency can do it for you.
There is strength in bayonets, but what stability is there in the ism which supports them?
suffix forming nouns of action, state, condition, doctrine, from French -isme or directly from Latin -isma, -ismus, from Greek -isma, from stem of verbs in -izein. Used as an independent word, chiefly disparagingly, from 1670s.
-ism suff.
Action, process; practice: vegetarianism.
Characteristic behavior or quality: puerilism.
State; condition; quality: senilism.
State or condition resulting from an excess of something specified: strychninism.
Doctrine; theory; system of principles: Darwinism.
