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political correctness

  • a word derived from politically correct.
    politically correct
    adjective
    marked by or adhering to a typically progressive orthodoxy on issues involving especially ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or ecology: The CEO feels that people who care about being politically correct are overly sensitive. PC, P.C.

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In the early 1990s, the two men wrote for a campus publication, attacking what they saw as political correctness destroying American higher education.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

She said actions to address harassment and violence against women, and other groups facing discrimination were increasingly perceived as political correctness.

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

There will be no political correctness during Waters’ birthday show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025

By far the most bizarre bits of detritus from this panic I encountered in my research were the “dictionaries” of political correctness that proliferated across various countries and languages.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025

No one had ever accused Root of political correctness.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

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