“heightist”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

heightist

释义

heightist, a. orig. U.S.
Brit. |ˈhʌɪtɪst|, U.S. |ˈhaɪdɪst|
[‹ height n. + -ist suffix, after e.g. racist adj., sexist adj., etc. Compare heightism n.]
Characterized by or advocating heightism; esp. that discriminates against short people.
1971News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 1 Nov. 5/1 As television and radio psychologist Joyce Brothers says, ‘We have an ingrown prejudice about people's height.’ Society is, in fact, deeply heightist.1986E. Hatfield et al. Mirror, Mirror 197 American society is a society with a heightist premise: To be tall is to be good and to be short is to be ‘stigmatized’.1992Guardian 4 Nov. ii. 7/4 ‘Heightist’ images abound, all of them founded on such unfeminine images as the gawky wallflower in the fifties dancehall.2005Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times Free Press (Nexis) 11 Aug. b7 Sutherland is the current poster boy for the heightist movement.

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