Definition of "happy-clappy" [happy-clappy]

• A member of a Christian church whose worship is characterized by enthusiasm and spontaneity. (noun)
• Of, or relating to such a worshiper or such a church. (adjective)

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• "The chilly halls, crusty old dons and whiff of decaying empire were a far cry from sunny, happy-clappy San Francisco."
• "The other spectre that haunts liberal economics – other than the lingering unhappiness that its happy-clappy consumerism generates – is the broaching of planetary boundaries for survival."
• "Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity.""