sexist
/ˈsɛksɪst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other.
Example Sentences
- "[Sokka (Jack DeSena):] I knew I should've left you home. Leave it to a girl to screw things up. [Katara (Mae Whitman):] You are the most sexist, immature, nutbrained—I'm embarrassed to be related to you!"
- "What was all that about? Well, like all women, she's shoe-mad. 't's a bit sexist, isn't it? Do you know one woman who isn't obsessed with shoes? No, but I only know one woman. And she just left the room shouting "THE SHOES!""
- "Yes, sometimes my lyrics are sexist / But you lovely bitches and hoes / Should know I'm trying to correct this"
- "A defender of communitarianism might argue that just because extant communitarian theories are sexist, it does not follow that communitarianism is inherently sexist."
- "I believe this is the first fairy tale retelling I’ve seen that incorporates the classic version of the text as official propaganda of a fascistically sexist (and homophobic) police state, so that’s an interesting premise to start from."
- "When you argue […] that since fewer women write good poetry this justifies their total exclusion, you are taking a position analogous to that of the racist—I might call you in this case a "sexist"—who says that since so few Negroes have held positions of importance relative to the majority race, their exclusion from history books is a matter of good judgement rather than discrimination. Both the racist and the sexist are acting as if all that has happened had never happened, and both of them are making decisions and coming to conclusions about someone's value by referring to factors which are in both cases irrelevant."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɛksɪst/
- British English: /ˈsɛksɪst/