A neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
1 They thought this would offset the charges made by the ' mugwump ' committee.
2 Frank is the politician of the concern; the greenback, anti-monopoly, mugwump man!
3 Then we can have the big powwow, see who's the big mugwump .
4 There was only one degree lower, and that was to be a mugwump .
5 And this is what the Republican press and its mugwump echo call prosperity!
6 Then the rector asked if even one mugwump was, in the Christian sense, deleterious.
7 Mark Twain had been a " mugwump " during the Blame-Cleveland campaign in candidate, Grover Cleveland.
8 The first appointed supreme mugwump was Pierre Bonaccord.
9 I took the best mugwump stand: my own conscience, my own judgment, were to decide in all things.
10 He added: They say to themselves: he may be a mutton-headed old mugwump , but he is probably harmless.
11 It is, with shining exceptions, a " mugwump " class.
13 In Eliot's Bible, the word which means a great chief-suchas Joshua, or Gideon, or Joab - is " mugwump . "
14 At first he seemed to think it was all quite easy against a " mugwump " leader of the opposition.
15 Dumbledore was restored as a member of the Confederation when the ministry accepted Voldemort's return, but not as supreme mugwump .
16 Papa said the other day, "I am a mugwump and a mugwump is pure from the marrow out."
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