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Adjectives are just one of several different types of noun modifiers, typically used to premodify or describe a noun. Do not confuse adjectives with nouns used attributively to modify other nouns. Adjectives have comparative and superlative degrees, can be used as predicate adjectives in copulae, and can themselves be modified by intensifiers and adverbs but not by other adjectives. Nouns in attribution fail all those tests.

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Looking for a Very Specific Adjective

Perhaps guileful or Machiavellian. guileful (from Wiktionary, 2019): Full of guile; treacherously deceptive. with guile being (from Wiktionary, 2019): Astuteness often marked by a certain s …
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Electoral populism

It's somewhat tautological/pleonastic, but not entirely. The adjective electoral specifies further on what kind of populism it is about. Populism on its own is a political philosophy that aims to imp …
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