Vichyite

[ vish-ee-ahyt, vee-shee- ]

noun

1. a member or adherent of the government established 1940 at Vichy by Marshal Henri Pétain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Vichyite¹

Vichy + -ite ¹

Example Sentences

Such rejection, Will wrote, would be “condign punishment for their Vichyite collaboration.”

From Los Angeles Times

We cannot know all the measures necessary to restore the nation’s domestic health and international standing, but we know the first step: Senate Republicans must be routed, as condign punishment for their Vichyite collaboration, leaving the Republican remnant to wonder: Was it sensible to sacrifice dignity, such as it ever was, and to shed principles, if convictions so easily jettisoned could be dignified as principles, for . . . what?

From Washington Post

It has always been the dream of the respectable right in France to do something similar to the National Front: steal its voters by emphasizing “security” while avoiding the party’s Vichyite extremes.

From The New Yorker

With muscular tactlessness, Tarantino has taken the stereotype and turned it up to 11: Stephen is a Pétain in the below-stairs Vichyite regime propping up the rulers' loathsome racism.

From The Guardian

Coulet promptly fired the incumbent Vichyite subprefect, whom the British had instructed to stay on the job, and replaced him with a Resistance fighter.

From Time Magazine Archive