political correctness
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Yiannopoulos was once regularly linked with the alt-right, a disparate group that is outspoken against political correctness and feminism, and which includes neo-Nazis and white supremacists among its ranks.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
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
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
