Search for crossword answers and clues
New setter's joining Times, a selfish sort?
Answer for the clue "New setter's joining Times, a selfish sort? ", 5 letters:
nimby
Alternative clues for the word nimby
- Acronym used to protest nearby landfills
- Modern political acronym
- Single doctor in US city, one opposing local development
- Acronym used to protest potential environmental hazards nearby
- Acronym for protesting local construction projects
- Selfish social outlook, for short
- "Build it somewhere else" acronym
- Someone who objects to something being sited in their own locality
Word definitions for nimby in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
NIMBY (an acronym for the phrase " Not In My Back Yard "), or Nimby (as a word, instead of an acronym), is a pejorative characterization of opposition by residents to a proposal for a new development because it is close to them (or, in some cases, because ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
acronym for not in my back yard , 1980, American English, supposedly coined by Walter Rodgers of the American Nuclear Society.
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.