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sexist

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈsɛksɪst//

Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other.

adjective

  1. 1

    Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other.

    What was all that about? Well, like all women, she's shoe-mad. 't's a bit sexist, isn't it? Do you know one woman who isn't obsessed with shoes? No, but I only know one woman. And she just left the room shouting "THE SHOES!"

    Yes, sometimes my lyrics are sexist / But you lovely bitches and hoes / Should know I'm trying to correct this

    A defender of communitarianism might argue that just because extant communitarian theories are sexist, it does not follow that communitarianism is inherently sexist.

    I believe this is the first fairy tale retelling I’ve seen that incorporates the classic version of the text as official propaganda of a fascistically sexist (and homophobic) police state, so that’s an interesting premise to start from.

Etymology

From sex + -ist, after sexism.

noun

  1. 1

    A person who discriminates on grounds of sex; someone who practises sexism.

    I don't blame racists, sexists, lookists, or any other “ists” for what they personify and perpetuate. They are mere hostages of their egos.

    Narrators demonstrated resistance coping techniques through direct confrontation with aggressors, such as racists, sexists, homophobes, elitists, and misogynoirists.

Forms

plural
sexists
comparative
more sexist
superlative
most sexist
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).