wokescold
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who criticizes or shames others for being insufficiently woke, or not supporting social justice causes.
Derogatory; Informal
verb
To aggressively chastise or berate somebody for holding insufficiently social-liberal political or social views, or for behaving in a manner antithetical to such views.
Derogatory; Informal
Example Sentences
- "Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic."
- "Like Pope Urban VII, the self-righteous wokescolds seek to impose their questionable views and shifty standards on the rest of society by silencing dissenters with labels."
- "When it was announced that David Mamet's American Buffalo was returning to Broadway, cranky theater wokescolds protested."
- "She then proceeded to wokescold the man for even mentioning that misandry legitimately exists."