Definition of "whiggish" [whig•gish]

• Characteristic of a Whig; liberal. (adjective)

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• "They are, as historians like to say, very "whiggish"; they usually see the past simply as an anticipation of our present, and thus they tend to hold people in the past responsible for a future that was in fact inconceivable to them."
• "The confrontation between the metropolitan, whiggish minority around him who think like him and the majority of his party who don't is beginning."
• "Cameron and his whiggish friends face a rough ride from the likes of Heffer and Oborne"