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Word: shominteki (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...observer, "but I cannot stand to look at his picture." Says a Turkish businessman, even while trying to display his pro-American sentiments: "Just because Johnson is a boob does not mean that all Americans are boobs." A Tokyo political scientist can find only one word to define Johnson: shominteki-meaning pedestrian or commonplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: KENNEDY LEGEND & JOHNSON PERFORMANCE | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

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