ageist
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- noun
- /ˈeɪdʒɪst/
- Offensive
- She criticized the company's policies, calling them ageist for favoring younger employees over their experience.
Examples
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"Ageist it may very well be, but the mother is mainly concerned with Mary Kate's hard-partying ways, according to one source.
Blog text (8) -
The question, though, is not whether classicists are ageists, but rather whether Greece and Rome practiced discrimination on the basis of age.
Academic text (1993) -
Whatever we may be, we are not ageists.
Fiction book (1991) -
An ageist.
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Now I have been informed that I am a privileged ageist ableist MRA.
Blog text (4) -
If we criticize Dirty Harry, does that make us "ageists," "doucheists," or both?
Blog text (15) -
When he wasn't trying to stir up trouble on that front, Blitzer was uncorking cutesy questions about the candidates' wives and an ageist question to Ron.
Blog text (33) -
Off topic, but many people probably heard the little news item out of my patch last week: the University of NC at Chapel Hill has banned the term "freshman," which has been judged insensitive, offensive, disrespectful to "the other," ageist, sexist, or some damn thing...
Blog text (10) -
Many people are unaware of their ageist views, which can unfairly affect hiring decisions.
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As an ageist, he often dismissed the ideas of older individuals without considering their value.
Antonyms
How Ageist
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ageist comes from the word age ('how old someone is') and the ending -ist, like in artist, which names a person who does or believes something. So, an ageist is a person who treats others unfairly or has unfair ideas about people because of their age.