sexist
pronunciation
How to pronounce sexist in British English:
UK [ˈseksɪst]
How to pronounce sexist in American English:
US [ ˈseksɪst]
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- Noun:
- a man with a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women
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- Adjective:
- discriminatory on the basis of sex (usually said of men's attitude toward women)
Word Origin
- sexist (adj.)
- 1965, from sex (n.) on model of racist, coined by Pauline M. Leet, director of special programs at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S., in a speech which was circulated in mimeograph among feminists. Popularized by use in print in Caroline Bird's introduction to "Born Female" (1968).
Example
- 1. Soon an article with sexist ads from present will come !
- 2. Because I think you 're a sexist , misogynist dinosaur .
- 3. Do you know how sexist this sounds ?
- 4. Getting out into a sexist public world was not automatically liberating .
- 5. Her experience of the effects again bears witness to the way sexist discourse is productive of power - for men .