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- adjective humorous
Targeting everyone indiscriminately .
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Examples
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A strict follower of Signed English, on the other hand, might decide to spell out every R, O, M and A, deciding that Lady Gaga should be equal-opportunity nonsensical.
What sign-language interpreters make of the likes of Lady Gaga and Bon Jovi 2011
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All the research I've done, led, or read points to this fact: Addiction is an equal-opportunity disease that affects people from all walks of life.
Deni Carise: Addiction: Not a Laughing Matter Deni Carise 2012
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"He's like Archie Bunker, he's an equal-opportunity portrayer of people, sometimes inadequately or improperly."
Italian-American Group: Spike Lee Dishonors MLK Will Guzzardi 2011
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The PC police thank you for your equal-opportunity willingness to destroy fictional governments, but ask you to leave out references to Islam in future lists of hypothetical fictional evil.
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"He's like Archie Bunker, he's an equal-opportunity portrayer of people, sometimes inadequately or improperly."
Italian-American Group: Spike Lee Dishonors MLK Will Guzzardi 2011
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(By the way, Professor McCurry insisted on equal-opportunity leaking -- we rotated our leaks among all the major news organizations and reporters covering the White House.)
Lanny Davis: Tell It All, Tell It Early, Tell It Yourself Lanny Davis 2010
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And the policy-makers become equal-opportunity haters.
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Yet the primary targets for scorn are women, and since these shows are equal-opportunity humiliators, virtually everyone comes off badly at some point.
Somebody Out There Hates Us Nancy deWolf Smith 2011
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(By the way, Professor McCurry insisted on equal-opportunity leaking -- we rotated our leaks among all the major news organizations and reporters covering the White House.)
Lanny Davis: Tell It All, Tell It Early, Tell It Yourself Lanny Davis 2010
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So, all told, he offered some gentle, equal-opportunity nudging for pundits and partisans to do better.
Obama saves Tucson memorial from the unseemly Stephen Stromberg 2011
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