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larrikinism

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11 lettersSorted aiiiklmnrrsStarts with LEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. The behaviour of larrikins (hooligans); impertinent and disrespectful behaviour.

Word origin

From larrikin + -ism.

Used in a sentence

  • The apparent decline of larrikinism in Sydney in the late 1890s provides a specific illustration of the ambiguous relation between official policies, socioeconomic change, and change in deviant behavior.
  • Good quality homes promised deliverance from the problems of illegitimacy, divorce, larrikinism, wife-desertion, general immorality and crime.
  • Neither Menzies nor Fraser made any attempt to wield the imagery of the legend, and Gorton's larrikinism made him unfit to hold high office in the eyes of Liberal Party powerbrokers.

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