sexist

Example Sentences

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While working as a photographer, Zoe says she would regularly be targeted with sexist chants, and would be asked: "Do you even know what football is?"

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Denver Quarterly evidently bars material that lays bare social evils, since “we do not tolerate submissions that contain hate speech, bigotry, discrimination, or racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or ableist language or violence of any kind.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

If the narrative that Gen Z is uniquely progressive were true, we would expect Gen Z–ers to be more progressive than older generations by outright rejecting sexist statements.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2026

Or, as Kilmartin puts it: “It’s a show where you can see a ton of great, experienced female and nonbinary comics, one after the other. Not a single lazy, sexist dud in the bunch.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

My sister made some remark about how cheerleading is stupid and sexist, and my brother told her to shut up.

From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky