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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

One human rights concern raised in recent years is that AI can display biases against particular groups if trained on large datasets scraped from the internet which can include racist, sexist and other undesirable material.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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

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

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

But journalist Isabel Oakeshott said Westminster was not full of "marauding sexists" and that things had "got an awful lot better".

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2022

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

Her powers of deflection are the perfect approach in a neofeminist moment in which women are calling out sexists, sometimes against vicious pushback.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 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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