sexist
adjective
relating to, involving, or fostering sexism, or attitudes and behavior toward someone based on the person's gender.
sexists
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pluralof sexist.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The performer has just tried out for a role as the first major gay superhero in a Hollywood feature, an avenger “who fights racists, sexists and homophobes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2020
In a new, meticulously researched biography, “A Rather Haunted Life,” Ruth Franklin sets out to rescue Jackson from the sexists and the genre snobs who have consigned her to a dungeon of kooky, spooky middlebrow-ness.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
"Publications around the world are closing comment sections because they don't want to spend the money to edit out the haters, racists, sexists and the uniformed and frightened," she says.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2015
In other words, calling for the censorship of racists, sexists, et al., is worse than being one.”
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2013
And I don’t mean to say the world is filled with racists or sexists or homophobes.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
