sexist
[sek-sist]
- relating to, involving, or fostering sexism, or attitudes and behavior toward someone based on the person's gender: a sexist remark; sexist advertising.
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- a person who has sexist attitudes or behaves in a sexist manner.
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Origin of sexist
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Examples from the Web for sexist
Contemporary Examples
She fills her characters up—strong women beating back against a sexist system—with so much heart.
Oscars 2015: The Daily Beast’s Picks, From Scarlett Johansson to ‘Boyhood’Marlow Stern
January 6, 2015
Had Herx said “this dogma is sexist,” that would be well beyond the reach of the courts.
Klein argued that Ed acquired his following by “an ancient ritual known as sexist jokes and lots of T&A.”
Canada’s Subversive Sock Puppet: Ed the Sock Isn’t Afraid to Say AnythingSoraya Roberts
November 13, 2014
Her job was to defend the guy who maybe fired this woman for sexist reasons.
There are plenty of other outdated stereotypes in “Tom and Jerry”—sexist attitudes, for example—but Amazon chose to focus on race.
Word Origin and History for sexist
adj.
1965, from sex (n.) on model of racist, coined by Pauline M. Leet, director of special programs at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S., in a speech which was circulated in mimeograph among feminists. Popularized by use in print in Caroline Bird's introduction to "Born Female" (1968).
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