tokenistic

[toh-kuhn-ist-ik]

adjective

1. being or making only a token or symbolic gesture.

Example Sentences

"While DF Concerts continue to promote initiatives such as Girls Girls Girls - an unpaid opportunity to perform at King Tut's - these efforts risk feeling tokenistic when they are not backed by systemic, measurable commitment to equity at the highest levels."

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"If it had just been a one-off, I would say that was a tokenistic opportunity. But it hasn't been. I've been asked back time and time again... as a performer onstage," she said.

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Thorpe herself was a leading ‘No’ campaigner, having criticised the measure as tokenistic.

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Thorpe herself was a leading ‘No’ campaigner, having criticised the measure as tokenistic and “an easy way to fake progress”.

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The authors of the report - the University of Bristol business school, funded by a grant from the charity Gamble Aware - has called the industry's attempt to self-regulate "wholly inadequate and tokenistic".

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