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political correctness

/puh-lit-ik-lee kuh-rekt/US // pəˈlɪt ɪk li kəˈrɛkt //

政治正确性,政治正确,政治上的正确性,政治上的正确

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adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : marked by or adhering to a typically progressive orthodoxy on issues involving especially ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or ecology: The actor’s comment about unattractive women was not politically correct.The CEO feels that people who care about being politically correct are overly sensitive.Abbreviations: PC, P.C.

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Examples

  • They think of us as characters on Netflix or a group that politically correct people advocate for.

  • These aren’t politically correct views, but they’re not unique to cops and medics.

  • Because of the thinness of the air, there is a very tight margin between the correct and incorrect airspeeds, as little as 50 mph.

  • Conservatives get nowhere by demanding “deregulation,” because liberals are correct that most Americans want clean water.

  • Politically in the last five decades, every problem Cuba faced was part of larger struggle against northern imperialists.

  • The Senate report provides ample evidence of many problems to correct.

  • Breitbart forced her to correct a small part of her story, but witch hunts like these will leave every victim cowering.

  • For telegrams the spelling does n't matter; the people at the office correct it—or if they don't you can put it off on them.

  • I was perfectly amazed to see how many little ugly habits I had to correct of which I had not been the least aware.

  • That was by no means what Garnache had implied; still, since it really expressed his mind, he did not trouble to correct Marius.

  • With children of finer perception the transition to a correct profile view may be carried much further.

  • In 1881 the appearance of the figures was improved by their being painted in correct colours.