Citations:dog-whistly

Adjective: "(informal) of, relating to, or characteristic of dog-whistle politics"

 * 2008, Melissa McEwan, "McCain blows the dog whistle", The Guardian, 1 August 2008:
 * But the difference between the "bimbo ad" (which was also a Republican production) and the McCain advert is that the former was explicit in its miscegenation message, whereas the latter is more, well, dog-whistly.
 * 2010, Michael Tomasky, "From drill baby drill to burn baby burn", The Guardian, 8 September 2010:
 * That's about as dog-whistley as you can get. I feel like I know plenty about Barack Obama. Unlike, say, Jesus of Nazareth, there is no 18-year hole in his life. Everything's completely accounted for. Barbour knows this.
 * 2014, Ruth Walker, "Dog-whistle editing", The Christian Science Monitor, 20 March 2014:
 * One arguably dog-whistly distinction I maintain is that between exhibit and exhibition.
 * 2015, David Berry, "Best of Enemies review: How the pundit state was born", National Post, 30 July 2015:
 * As a raft of partisans explains, despite remarkably similar, patrician, white-guys-of-letters backgrounds, they responded to the upheaval of the ’60s in polar opposite ways: Buckley essentially invented the modern intellectual framework for the American conservative movement, from hawkishness and libertarianism down to dog-whistley racism, while Vidal was essentially a pansexual version of a New Deal Democrat who all but welcomed open revolution.
 * 2018, Dana Andersen, "Letter: Dems ‘blew it’ alright", Post Independent (Glenwood Springs, CO), 20 February 2018:
 * The dog-whistley Make America Great Again has given us Donald J. Trump, the great white hope, undoer of all-things-Obama.
 * 2018, Tom Nicholson, "Trump Now Lying '30 Times A Day' Ahead Of US Midterm Elections", Esquire, 5 November 2018:
 * That includes notable fabrications like the migrant caravan moving toward the American border with Mexico being full of people from the Middle East (not true, and pretty dog-whistley) and boasting that he'd given the American people the biggest tax cut ever (again, untrue).
 * 2019, Douglas Ernst, "John Cleese of ‘Monty Python’ fame called racist for saying London is ‘not really an English city’", Washington Times, 29 May 2019:
 * “Some years ago I said something a bit ignorant and dog-whistly,” writer James Felton tweeted. “I hang out with people who are also a bit ignorant and dog-whistly. So it must be correct.”
 * 2022, Jeremiah Moss, Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York, unnumbered page:
 * While there are reasons to complain about fireworks—they're loud, they can hurt people and cause fires—the tenor of the collective complaint becomes racialized and dog-whistly, spiked with cries for "law and order."
 * 2022, Alex Shephard, "Trump Tried to Steal an Election. Will the Media Still Care in 2024?", The New Republic, 15 July 2022:
 * Breaking into purple states and swing districts requires a degree of subtlety; when Glenn Youngkin ran his dog-whistly campaign about race and education in Virginia in 2021, he kept Trump at arm’s (or half of an arm, anyway) length.