to appropriate
19
9.0
- verb
- /əˈproʊpriˌeɪt/
- Offensive
:
apropiarse de
- So I'm going to appropriate the ways power talks to do my own work.
- appropriated cultural
- appropriating an identity
- appropriated symbols
All of that is part of this great, great tradition of appropriating and reinterpreting Aristotle.
- All of that is part of this great, great tradition of appropriating and reinterpreting Aristotle.
- So I'm going to appropriate the ways power talks to do my own work.
- You have feminine men appropriating the the word for feminine men in other cultures.
- And then they are appropriated by people in the Romance language tradition.
- Let's talk about why someone might re appropriate a word that otherwise is considered a slur.
- To play in the world is to act ethically, to act upon a series of values, to appropriate the world and express who we are and make fun of it.
- Codependency is a term that has been too widely and unfortunately appropriated to pathologize survivors of narcissistic abuse.
- I'm being paid basically, you know, my urban athletic experience, which is unique, is then, you know, sort of appropriated.
- No, no, no, but but they they appropriated that that that that idea of secrecy and and and weird Mystic names.
- So mindfulness is frame awareness that can be appropriated in order to improve your capacities for insight and self regulation.
- So there's, you know, there's nothing we can do about people appropriating terms, names, shininess for their own ends.
- I'm a I'm a white lady appropriating white men.
- It's also us, the, the knowing, the thinking, the acting, the appropriating subject as well.
Examples
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Lydia feels unable to speak because she thinks her trauma will be appropriated and silenced by those around her.
Academic text (2008) -
Do you really want to be another white guy shamelessly appropriating African-American culture?
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Speech is the way in which we appropriate, deploy and make use of language.
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And why did you appropriate my invitation?
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But do not appropriate my actual work for your new shortcut.
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And people have appropriated this teaching in different countries, adding their own culture each time.
Academic text (2012) -
Our personal stories and pictures cannot be borrowed or appropriated from others; they must be our own.
Academic text (1999) -
So mindfulness is frame awareness that can be appropriated in order to improve your capacities for insight and self regulation.
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Olodum has successfully appropriated the banner of the socio-racial cause and that of aesthetic chic.
Academic text (1999) -
Critics accused her of trying to appropriate elements of Indigenous culture for her fashion line without proper acknowledgment.
Compounds
How Offensive
- Formal
5
8.4
214
5.6
- Offensive
19
9.0
∞
1.0
135
3.2
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Appropriate comes from the Latin parts ad- 'to' and proprius 'one's own', so it can mean 'to make something your own'. A helpful way to remember the modern cultural meaning is that it refers to taking ideas or symbols from another group and using them as if they were yours, often without permission.