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sexist

[sek-sist] / ˈsɛk sɪst /






NOUN
misogynist
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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

Denver Quarterly evidently bars material that lays bare social evils, since “we do not tolerate submissions that contain hate speech, bigotry, discrimination, or racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or ableist language or violence of any kind.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

If the narrative that Gen Z is uniquely progressive were true, we would expect Gen Z–ers to be more progressive than older generations by outright rejecting sexist statements.

From Slate Jan. 6, 2026

Or, as Kilmartin puts it: “It’s a show where you can see a ton of great, experienced female and nonbinary comics, one after the other. Not a single lazy, sexist dud in the bunch.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 6, 2025

"The X-Men aren't sexist," he said, shaking his head.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

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

She embodied the reality, confounding to sexists, that a woman who looked like her could be a radical egalitarian about gender.

From The New Yorker Oct. 8, 2018

“There are racists, sexists, piggery of various kinds who will say really terrible things. And that is part of the world,” he said.

From New York Times Feb. 3, 2017

"Publications around the world are closing comment sections because they don't want to spend the money to edit out the haters, racists, sexists and the uniformed and frightened," she says.

From BBC Dec. 29, 2015

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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