Weinsteinian

English

Etymology

From Weinstein +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Weinsteinian (comparative more Weinsteinian, superlative most Weinsteinian)

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling American film producer Harvey Weinstein or his behavior, particularly sex offending.
    • 2005 September 22, Boris Kachka, “The Gist: ‘The Diviners’”, in New York‎[1], archived from the original on 18 December 2009:
      It’s a satire of the entertainment business set largely in New York, at an indie-film company run by a female Weinsteinian producer.
    • 2017 October 14, Ross Douthat, “The ’70s and Us”, in The New York Times‎[2], archived from the original on 15 October 2017:
      When it comes to Weinsteinian behavior and related evils, things probably haven’t ever been as bad in modern America as they were for a time in the 1970s.
    • 2018 January 24, John Dugdale, “Robert Burns: was the beloved poet a 'Weinsteinian sex pest'?”, in The Guardian‎[3], →ISSN, archived from the original on 4 December 2024:
      For Lochhead, this “disgraceful sexual boast … seemed very like a rape of his heavily pregnant girlfriend. It’s very, very Weinsteinian.”
    • 2018 January 30, Jason Horowitz, “Berlusconi Is Back. Again. This Time, as Italy’s ‘Nonno’”, in The New York Times‎[4], archived from the original on 30 January 2018:
      But despite his waxworks appearance, pre-Weinsteinian penchant for priapic innuendo and lingering criminal trials, Mr. Berlusconi, a former Italian prime minister, is no longer the joke of European politics.
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