ultrasexist

English

Etymology

ultra- +‎ sexist

Adjective

ultrasexist (comparative more ultrasexist, superlative most ultrasexist)

  1. Extremely sexist.
    • 1990, The Motion Picture Guide 1990 Annual: The Films of 1989, page 49:
      An ultraviolent — and ultrasexist — biker epic set for the most part in the Arizona desert, it's steeped in biker lore and southwestern mysticism, giving it the eccentricity that seems to be the exclusive province of B movies these days.
    • 1992, James H. Cone, Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare‎:
      Malcolm's temple addresses during the 1950s particularly reveal his ultrasexist views, and many sisters in the Nation of Islam complained to Muhammad about his grossly offensive sayings against them.
    • 2014, Eric Hobsbawm, Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century‎:
      It is during the 1890s and 1900s that one encounters misogynist – or at any rate ultrasexist – reactions among intellectuals and, not least, emancipated intellectuals of liberal origins, which seem to express uneasiness and fear.
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