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sexist

[sek-sist] / ˈsɛk sɪst /






NOUN
misogynist
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Clips of his comment circulated widely on social media as if it were an allusion to abuse, and Flavio Bolsonaro accused Lula of being "sexist."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

As the luminous, sweet and steel-spined Doralee, she doesn’t just hold her own, she shines, shattering the same sexist assumptions that often plagued Dolly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Are we meant to be tough but sensitive, tough but insensitive, or sensitive but sexist?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Denford’s mission is to interrupt the spinning vortex of negativity in which the world is caught by redirecting our energy instead of contributing one more fiery rebuttal to sexist idiocy.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026

Because whatever you’ve heard about the Latin woman needing to be saved from her sexist man is not entirely true.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

The band's social justice stance was made abundantly clear in the liner notes for the 1992 compilation Incesticide, which warned sexists, racists and homophobes would not be welcome to sweat in their particular mosh pit.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021

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

“Because they were. Or sexists, because they were. The law they drafted promises equal protection of the laws to all persons. That’s what they wrote.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2017

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

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


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