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New setter's joining Times, a selfish sort?
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nimby
Alternative clues for the word nimby
- Single doctor in US city, one opposing local development
- Certain objector acronymically
- Word of opposition to local civic projects
- Modern political acronym
- "Keep that out of our town!" acronym
- Pejorative initialism said for those who want wind farms, only nowhere near their homes
- Somewhere else and I might not object!
- Acronym used to protest environmental hazards nearby
Word definitions for nimby in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not wanting to have to deal with unpleasant or distasteful things near them. alt. (context chiefly US UK English) not in my backyard. n. (context usually pejorative English) Someone who objects to the building of an undesirable structure in their neighborhood, ...
Usage examples of nimby.
Nimby get even a little curious about what human love and bleep was all about?
Then she sat on Nimby dragon, and Tweeter perched on her hair, and she invoked the crime against nature.
Then Chena did the next, and so on, until only Nimby and Jim were left outside.
It was worse for Nimby than for Chlorine, because as a Demon he had not had natural functions, and in manform he had simply used magic to abate those he didn't care for.