political correctness
Example Sentences
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In the early 1990s, the two men wrote for a campus publication, attacking what they saw as political correctness destroying American higher education.
From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025
She said actions to address harassment and violence against women, and other groups facing discrimination were increasingly perceived as political correctness.
From BBC • May 2, 2025
By far the most bizarre bits of detritus from this panic I encountered in my research were the “dictionaries” of political correctness that proliferated across various countries and languages.
From Slate • Jan. 5, 2025
Comedy led the backlash against political correctness, which Lindy West astutely defined in a 2015 Guardian column as a fancy term for “not treating people who are already treated like garbage like garbage.”
From Salon • Nov. 3, 2024
No one had ever accused Root of political correctness.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
