red-ˈtapish, a.
[f. red-tape, red tape + -ish.]
Characterized or infected by red-tapism.
| 1850 Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. iii. (1872) 94 One Intellect still really human, and not redtapish. 1855 Fraser's Mag. LI. 635 Close bodies tend to become narrow and red-tapish. |