- retro-sexism
- n. current popular opinions and conducts which imitate or praise in a sarcastic manner previous sexist point of views
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
retro-sexism
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audism — (AW.diz.um) n. Discrimination against deaf people. audist n. Example Citations: The year after Liz was born, Tom Humphries, then a deaf graduate student and now associate director of the Teacher Education Program at University of California San… … New words
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