unwoke
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Finally, there came his involvement with Markle. […] a woman of colour and a feminist whose presence in his life would soon require that he forcefully denounce racism and sexism in the British press (and, I trust, among his more un-woke friends and relations)."
- "Today’s culture war is being waged not between religion and secularism but between groups that the Catholic writer Matthew Schmitz has described as “the woke and the unwoke.”"
- "It would of course be premature to declare that Swinney's policy reset amounts to the "unwoking" of the Scottish government."
- "Kahn put it more bluntly, saying "this is wielding a sledgehammer in a crowded restaurant: 'We've decided CBS is too woke — and we're going to unwoke it'.""
- "After a call with White House officials and a logo change earlier this week, the company unwoked itself to President Trump's liking."
Etymology
From un- + woke.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Usage
- Archaic
- Canadian usage
- American usage
- Colloquial
- Informal
- Transitive verb