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happy-clappy
adjective
filled with spiritual joy, sometimes applied to Christians but rarely in the conventional Church UK- A hazard of this lay enterprise is that a flood of happy-clappy Christian commandos could be let loose on the world. — Ivan Clutterbuck, Marginal Catholics, p. 213, 1993
- In an ideal world this would still be the AFFM’s parking lot, but Happy Clappies he could live with. — Christopher Brookmyre, Not the End of the World, p. 21, 1998
- I was a bit doubtful about the occasional wish that [Bob] Dylan would stop his moaning and become some kind of happy-clappy hippie mystic. — Uncut, p. 5, July 2001
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