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nonsexist
adjective as in politically correct
Example Sentences
The Women’s Educational Equity Act provides grants and contracts to help with “nonsexist curricula,” as well as to help institutions meet Title IX requirements.
With men being held accountable to a higher, nonsexist standard these days, shouldn’t women also follow the same?
But the moment Gadot first stripped down to her nonsexist skivvies and started beating the hell out of those civilian-targeting no-goodniks, I was shocked to find my eyes welling with tears and my mind toggling between the Great War and the Women’s March.
Though your nonsexist intentions are good, your grammar isn’t—not today, anyway.
The Linguistic Society of America’s “Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage,” released in 1996, urge lexicographers to “avoid peopling your examples exclusively with one sex” and to “avoid gender-stereotyped characterizations” in their illustrative sentences.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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