sexist
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈsɛksɪst/
- Offensive
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sexista
- We need to laugh at the sexism, not with the sexists.
- racists and sexists
They they call you a racist or sexist or they make up stuff all the time.
- They they call you a racist or sexist or they make up stuff all the time.
- Wow, you stare down racists and sexists and and anti semites.
- No, I have a sexist though anyway.
Examples
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Being called this kind of sexist is extremely insulting if one is not that sort of person for obvious reasons.
Blog text (32) -
"You're a bunch of sexists."
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Before all of you sexist individuals, how can I do that?
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A sexist would've called me something else.
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The future "negative consequences" are because of sexists who can't handle women's bodies being seen in public.
Blog text (33) -
Modern sexists might reject any sort of discrimination toward women, but they might have ambivalent affection for women.
Academic text (2002) -
There are a lot of quite recalcitrant sexists out there who were definitely smoked out of their rat holes by Elevatorgate.
Blog text (14) -
Democrats have spent years searing into the culture false or inflated examples of conservatives as hypocrites, Luddites, sexists, racists, etc.
Blog text (12) -
A pointless insult, but then Ivanov was a sexist, and probably Koestler too, both with the same excuse—like all the other sexists, they were the products of their time.
Fiction book (1991) -
The workshop aimed to educate people about how to identify a sexist and challenge their beliefs.
Synonyms
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8.1
A person who dislikes or hates women
11
7.9
A person who strongly believes their country, group or gender is better and is unfair to others
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7.3
A man who thinks men are better than women and acts that way
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8.1
A person who strongly dislikes women
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8.2
A person who opposes equal rights for women and men
A person who thinks men are better and should have more power than women
A person who wrongly believes one gender is better than another
Antonyms
How Sexist
- Offensive
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8.1
- Offensive
11
7.9
- Offensive
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4.2
3
5.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sexist is formed from sex meaning 'male or female' plus the ending -ist, as in artist, which names a person. So a sexist is someone who believes one sex is better and treats the other unfairly.