Looking for sentences and phrases with the word whiggish? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Shelley was increasingly impatient with Whiggish parliamentary reform and compromise.
But Phillips sounds Whiggish indeed in regarding the three wars as building up to a global destiny.
Indeed, in what seemed to be a throwback to nineteenth century Whiggish history, the viewing public were being sold a figure as being the greatest Briton.
Recent cliometric work has challenged the Whiggish point of view.
Many students held to Whiggish, evangelical, and Utilitarian convictions of their duty to represent their nation and to modernise India.
Examples from Classical Literature
Mr. Cheeseman shed a tear, and put on a new apron, and entirely reformed his political views, which had been loose and Whiggish.
For the Tories this tap represented all that was most loathsome, most repulsive, most Whiggish.
His passions, on the contrary, were violent even to slaying against all who leaned to Whiggish principles.
As far, however, as he could be said to have any opinions, his opinions were Whiggish.
What kind of Whiggish, canting talk is this, for the house of Cluny Macpherson?
Although, therefore, the class might be Whiggish, it did not share the strongest revolutionary passions.
The Dunces were middle-class and Whiggish, their spirit capitalist.
Therefore, those Australian adolescents who were taught American history imbibed it in so banal a form that to call the outcome Whiggish would insult Macaulay.
