Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Appropriate manners and behavior; propriety.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun correct or appropriate behavior.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
correct
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun correct or appropriate behavior
Etymologies
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Examples
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We've grown so fearful of words, so deathly afraid of expressed points of view, that we no longer feel free to articulate them unemcumbered by the heavy hand of political correctitude.
And the Primetime Emmy For Outstanding Bleeper in a Heavy-Handed Role Goes To... 2007
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If you're right you will be assured of your correctitude, and if you're wrong you'll see a fixter-in-training beginning a lifelong love affair with fixed-gear cycling.
Archive 2009-05-01 BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Perhaps lost in this Oliver Miles tempest is the fact that Britain now has to suffer through yet another exercise in political correctitude of revisiting the Iraq question - hasn't enough ink been spilled in this ongoing soap opera?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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I was looking at it in terms of interrogative correctitude.
Michael Giltz: Books: Padgett Powell Has A Few Questions He'd Like To Ask 2009
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If you're right you will be assured of your correctitude, and if you're wrong you'll see a fixter-in-training beginning a lifelong love affair with fixed-gear cycling.
BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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That reactionary curmudgeon Fred do NOT bother linking to him if you have any lingering political correctitude! has just written an essay titled "A Colony Again" in reaction to a WaPo piece on, well, graduate students who can't read.
Archive 2006-01-01 2006
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Some imp of perversity makes me think that it is a bit funny when two darlings of political correctitude seem to go up against each other.
Eagles vs. Indians 2006
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Some imp of perversity makes me think that it is a bit funny when two darlings of political correctitude seem to go up against each other.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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The German sense of correctitude was deeply shocked by this outbreak.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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That reactionary curmudgeon Fred do NOT bother linking to him if you have any lingering political correctitude! has just written an essay titled "A Colony Again" in reaction to a WaPo piece on, well, graduate students who can't read.
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