politically incorrect

American  

[puh-lit-ik-lee in-kuh-rekt] / pəˈlɪt ɪk li ˌɪn kəˈrɛkt /

adjective

1. not politically correct; potentially offensive to a particular group of people.

   politically incorrect jokes.

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Other Word Forms

• political incorrectness noun

Etymology

Origin of politically incorrect

1875–80 (in the sense “mocking convention”); 1975–80 for the more recent meaning, which evolved from earlier Communist uses in the 1920s

Example Sentences

Greg, clueless about just how politically incorrect he can be without even trying, gets chastised several times, though the circumstances are deliberately exaggerated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Its editors are proudly politically incorrect, and some articles seem rather, well, dated.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024

“Producing a show about a group of politically incorrect women in 2023 is certainly different than it was all those years ago when we started,” Cohen said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2023

At the time Humphries used Edna, a dull housewife with decidedly politically incorrect views on foreigners, as a satire on his experience of growing up in the conservative suburbs of Melbourne.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2023

His irreverent Pop-inflected style pitted the history of painting against an unsettling, sometimes politically incorrect commentary on race in America.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022