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glasnosty

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Etymology

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From glasnost +‎ -y.

Adjective

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glasnosty (comparative more glasnosty, superlative most glasnosty)

  1. (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of glasnost.
    • 1988 October, Spy, page 141:
      I'm delighted to report that this is one glasnosty improvement that has taken hold in the American fashion trade as well.
    • 1998, John Henderson, Fighting for Rome: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War, page 107:
      The echolalia of a glasnosty, unBritish, shout: 'Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!'