rubber-stamped
See also: rubberstamped and rubber stamped
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]rubber-stamped
- simple past and past participle of rubber-stamp
Adjective
[edit]rubber-stamped (not comparable)
- Characterised by routine and thoughtless acceptance.
- 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 5:
- The spread of popular education in conjunction with the coming of the machine age and its concomitants, have together sufficed to create a rubber-stamped mentality. The popular Press, the cinema and the radio have resulted in the emergence of a public, the component members of which, with exceptions so rare as to be negligible, think alike and function alike.