adjective

• Exhibiting political correctness.

  ‘he has never been politically correct’

  More example sentences

  • ‘politically correct language’
  • ‘politically correct film festival judges’
  • ‘His dramatic Pentagon briefings caught the mood of the American public with his unashamed politically incorrect language.’
  • ‘I see these covert mechanisms as being akin to the development of politically correct language.’
  • ‘Modern politically correct language often hides the significance of an act.’
  • ‘It was, however, considered by the campus lefties to be politically incorrect and implied racism if you ever brought the issue up.’
  • ‘After the revolution, to be politically incorrect meant a death warrant.’
  • ‘In our liberal, politically correct country it is quite legal to butcher animals in this way.’
  • ‘I think many of those promoting it are using nauseatingly politically correct language.’
  • ‘Labour has made it politically incorrect to have a view on these sorts of things.’
  • ‘Respect for the other is a key value in the official language of our modern, politically correct world.’
  • ‘This bill is a quick attempt to become part of the international politically correct community.’
  • ‘Is it politically correct or socially valid to separate individuals according to gender?’
  • ‘Is the source of my social ineptitude my use of politically incorrect terms and faux-feelings of identification with minority groups?’
  • ‘He's asking you to laugh at things that are politically incorrect.’
  • ‘But the great relief for me is that, in liberal circles, it will no longer be politically incorrect to say no.’
  • ‘When people meet socially they don't always act or speak in a politically correct manner.’
  • ‘Marco, I consider most things in this country labeled as politically incorrect to be utter nonsense.’
  • ‘You can't even talk plain everyday facts anymore without someone telling you that you have been politically incorrect.’
  • ‘We need frontiers of plain-speaking, even it's politically incorrect.’
  • ‘I know it's politically incorrect and guess what, under the circumstance I don't care.’
  • ‘The twisted, subterranean, politically incorrect world of racism has reared its ugly head.’

  Synonyms

  progressive, forward-looking, forward-thinking, progressivist, go-ahead, enlightened, reformist, radical, freethinking