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purity test
noun
An informal survey that assesses the participant's supposed degree of innocence in worldly matters, such as sex, drugs, and deceit.
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If it were a purity test, it would be Scozzafava'd.
Recently, around half have failed the wild salmon purity test.
We have this political purity test on policy.
Liberal bloggers have ridiculed the proposal as a "purity test".
Billy knows he wouldn't pass any purity test — but is he the hero the world needs?
No one should have to pass someone else's ideological purity test to be allowed to speak.
The far left seeks to make opposition to Israel into its own purity test.
Even for former officeholders, this kind of purity test can be a problem.
Beyond the divisions over outside groups, Democrats are also tussling over whether to invoke a purity test regarding specific donors.
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Vegetarianism is not a personal purity test--our positive and reasonable influence on others is just as important as our own commitment to a conscious and compassionate diet.
Neither of the Bush Presidents passed the Kochs' political-purity test.
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