Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Appropriating; making appropriation; having the power, tendency, or capability of appropriating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Taking or setting apart for oneself.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself
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Examples
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This is not just appropriative or transphobic, it directly threatens the safety and privacy of trans women:
Help get tranny-alert.com taken down! « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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As a result, it has the incidental effect of stifling the vast majority of appropriative forms of artistic expression and social commentary, regardless of the social import and regardless of how creative a work is.
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This is not just appropriative or transphobic, it directly threatens the safety and privacy of trans women:
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How and why not to ask a Native professor to come in and talk to your 8th grade class about the book they just read by an appropriative white author.
...whut? 2009
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As a result, it has the incidental effect of stifling the vast majority of appropriative forms of artistic expression and social commentary, regardless of the social import and regardless of how creative a work is.
Copyright Law, Freedom of Expression and Canwest v. Horizon : Law is Cool 2009
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This is not just appropriative or transphobic, it directly threatens the safety and privacy of trans women:
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- When someone says "Picking and choosing from oppressed cultures for your pretties is appropriative," and we get that zero-g stomach-doing-flips sense of I have done something fundamentally wrong.
As we're looking through our prison bars do I see mud when you see stars? shweta_narayan 2010
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I don't usually attend poetry sessions but there's one on "appropriative poetry" that sounds kind of interesting.
Getting Peachy 2007
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While this appropriative act corresponds in fascinating ways with Mary Robinson's blurring of the fictional/factual interplay in her various stage and
Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006
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Cf. a passage Eileen cited here: Claustrophilia . . . names the love that lights up a body, building, or book, from within, acknowledging what is discrete and irreconcilable in the beloved as the effect of one's own appropriative, organizing gaze.
Archive 2008-03-01 The Medieval Club of New York 2008
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