appropriative
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the authorized designation of something for a specific purpose or use.
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of or relating to the taking of something for one's own use.
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If you go ahead, I think you’ll also just have to live with knowing that some people might consider it strange and/or appropriative.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2021
What are the ways in which it could it be appropriative?
From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2020
“My reaction to being in this appropriative creative mindset was, ‘I’ll make it about a place I live, because I know it,’” he says.
From The Verge ● Sep. 1, 2018
At Oberlin College, students decried their dining hall’s General Tso’s chicken as culturally appropriative.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2017
If we regard intelligence and love in their highest antithesis, the one appears as the appropriative, the other as the self-devoting conception of things.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
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