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Selfish social outlook, for short
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nimby
Alternative clues for the word nimby
- Someone who objects to something being sited in their own locality
- Acronym used to protest new landfills
- Word of opposition to local civic projects
- Pejorative initialism said for those who want wind farms, only nowhere near their homes
- Certain objector acronymically
- Single doctor in US city, one opposing local development
Word definitions for nimby in dictionaries
Wiktionary
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, ...
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.