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Alternative forms

• Hobbsian

Adjective

Hobbesian ‎(comparative more Hobbesian, superlative most Hobbesian)

1. Involving unrestrained, selfish, and uncivilized competition among participants.
   • 1995, Fred Pfeil, White Guys: Studies in Postmodern Domination and Difference (page 150)

     In Hammett's writings, the social is constructed as a vast Hobbesian landscape of grim functionaries and desperate scrabblers […]

2. (political philosophy) Relating to Thomas Hobbes or his philosophical theories.

See also

• solitary
• poor
• nasty
• brutish
• short

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