How to Use fascistic in a Sentence

fascistic

adjective
  • As the film presents it, the Mercy program is fascistic.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Trump is not the only one to blame for the rise of fascistic immigration policies.
    — Ben Bayer, Oc Register, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The new season focused on a time when many in the galaxy live in fear of the fascistic Empire.
    — Saba Hamedy, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Yet the fact that fascistic tendencies are stirring doesn’t mean fascism has taken hold.
    — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The framing is blunt, fascistic, deliberate.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Apocalypse, holocaust, and the fascistic desire to dominate.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The story is set in Britain in a dystopian, not-too-distant future in which the country is controlled by the fascistic Norsefire party.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, movie stars have tweaked their faces and bodies into a startling sameness that hews toward the most fascistic markers of beauty (extreme thinness, whiteness, no signs of the passage of time).
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The two knew each other years ago, when a scandal put both women on opposite sides of an academic battle — all over politics and the fascistic streak Ellen once saw in the young student.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Ilana presents herself as a stout-hearted reformer who’s being targeted by fascistic insurgents but is secretly evil enough to engineer an apocalypse.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Fascistic creep bubbles like lava through the crevices of America’s political and cultural substrata.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Pardoning the January 6 rioters was fascistic.
    — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • In the series’ end, Harry and his sometime school comrades and allied teachers and others, fight off said tormented self-loathing wizard as, simultaneously, fascistic muggles rise, opposing the mere existence of their kind.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
  • In brief, the enigmatic organization was formed by the American political class and wider socioeconomic elite before the Great War, effectively as a fascistic shadow government.
    — Jack King, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The arrow sequence, though, has a connection to video gaming, recognizably originating in a game called Helldivers 2, a science-fiction narrative similar to Robert Heinlein’s book Starship Troopers that covers fascistic themes.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The post-Super movies have more complex, contradictory characters but less ambiguity about what’s right (egalitarian societies in which every citizen has a voice) and what’s wrong (cultlike obedience to fascistic belief systems that have no interest in anything but domination and self-enrichment).
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Invented for the film is Sergio (Benicio Del Toro), Willa’s karate teacher, who is the protector of undocumented migrants in Baktan Cross seeking protection from fascistic immigration forces, one of which is led by Lockjaw.
    — Rory Doherty, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The Boys – Season 5 (Prime Video) Things have gone from bad to worse in the final season of The Boys, Prime Video’s irreverent superhero satire about America succumbing to charismatic despots and fascistic opportunists.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026

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