Synonym a Day

[This term derives from the Laodiceans, a Christian community in the ancient city of Laodicea. They were criticized for their perceived indifference or neutrality on religious and political issues.] As Kevin Myers wrote in The Irish Times in 1991 [describing Bishop] Walton Empey: the accent is broad, the manner genial, the figure ample, the laughter ready, and most important of all, the opinion strong and free and forthright. All the political timidity, the [pretense] at Laodiceanism lest opinion on all but traffic accidents and dog licences be taken as disloyalty to Ireland, . . . all are absent from Walton Empey. (Patsy McGarry, “Archbishop Walton Empey to Retire in July,” Irish Times, 5/1/2002.)